AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: FIDEL CASTRO (WGBH/PBS)
Maria Daniels, Peter Pinch, Joe Bunik, Tim Halle

Primary Platform: OCAP™ (OpenCable™ Applications Platform)-Enabled Set-Top Box and Wireless

Production Goal: This enhanced TV prototype uses the subject to explore a means to capture strong sentiments with "Share Your Views," a feature that provides access to feedback about Cuba and Castro from the PBS community. The "Unlock the Archive" feature gives viewers access to deeper artifacts and information from 40 years of Castro-related history, including historical documents and interviews on-demand from family, colleagues and adversaries.

The set-top box application was built using emuse's Modelstream® authoring solution. For those without set-top box access, or who prefer to use a ubiquitous device, the "Unlock the Archive" service extends to a premium wireless SMS book-marking experience.

PRODUCTION TEAM
DESIGN
Smashing Ideas:
Dawn Boughton, Jill Brown, Adam Michel

DEVELOPMENT emuse:
Cristele Lartigue, Lewis Briggs, John Bryan

LINE PRODUCER
Dawn Boughton, Smashing Ideas

OTHER MENTORS Gaddy Radom
Telescope: Tom Chamberlin, Allen Kalman
Georgia Institute of Technology: Dr. Janet Murray, Karyn Y. Lu, Alcides Velasquez, Brooke Thompson, Zuley Clarke, Tom Banaszewski
BigDigit: Beau Buck

AFI-CPB FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT
Patrice O'Neill, The Working Group

AFIeTV
Marcia Zellers
Erin Flood

Contact AFI Digital Content Lab at (323)-856-7886 or digitalcontent@AFI.com