Interactive Film Screening: 48 Hour Games

Before the Global Game Jam starts, we will be screening 48 Hour Games – an interactive documentary moderated by the creator, current Open Documentary Lab fellow, Suvi Andrea Helminen. This is open to anyone!

“48 Hour Games follows the stories of the participants of the 2011 Nordic Game Jam as they strive to create a video game from scratch in just 48 hours.

With 48 Hour Games you are not simply a spectator, but also a player, deciding which characters to follow and favourite, unlocking extra video clips and achievements based on your actions, and exploring the winding road of multiple narratives.

Choose your path, and experience the Nordic Game Jam as if you were actually there.”

48 hour Games – live event trailer from Suvi Andrea Helminen on Vimeo.

Suvi Andrea Helminen is an interactive and documentary filmmaker from Denmark, currently based in Boston. For more than a decade she has been working in the film industry as a director, video journalist, editor, photographer, writer, concept developer, and project leader of collaborative films. She graduated from The National Film School of Denmark’s documentary department. Her first interactive documentary “48 Hour Games” was released in December 2012 and was shown at live shouting screenings at festivals around the world. For the last couple years she has been working on an interactive documentary and transmedia project called Flux, which explores gender identity. With Flux she is investigating how to create an adaptive and personalized narrative experience where users’ actions directly influence the outcome. Suvi Andrea Helminen is currently a fellow in the MIT Open Documentary Lab.