by Olivier Godest, published on 10.06.2010

We’re proud to announce that “The lost child” (“L’enfant perdue”), one of the five projects supported in its development by Transmedia Lab, won (the Special Prize of the Jury) during the 2010 Edition of Media Night (La Nuit des Médias).

This prize rewards the audacity and creativity of this transmedia program. When the team of “The lost child” presented its project in front of the eclectic jury gathered this past October, following the transmedia call for projects, it’s those very qualities that had struck us: “we were stunned in front of so much audacity!”

Then, through the transmedia workshops and the authors’ hard work, this slightly R&D project, which talks about the loss of our digital identity through networks, was embodied through likeable characters and multiple plot lines, happening on several screens and ending up in the movie theatres.

Thank you to all the members of the jury and to its President Mr. Pierre Lescure, for taking this initiative that will help the authors of “The lost child” find new supports to insure its production and hopefully, its projection on our screens. Congratulations to the creators Simon Kansara and Emilie Tarascou with whom we’ve had very enriching exchanges all along this collaboration: we are convinced that your project will go the distance!

Congratulations also to two other winning projects:

• Chico Chica Boumba (Inervalists Production): Revelation Prize Media Night 2010

• Faits Divers Paranormaux (Happy Fannie): Jury Favourite

If you don’t know the story of “The lost child” yet, here is the pitch: “The first cases of media mutations baffle humans: Digital virus? Massive joke? Crazy hacker?

But when the phenomenon takes on a global scale, humans are forced to admit the unthinkable: by being fed so much of their stories, the network has come alive. It now has its own consciousness and makes its way blindly through the media jungle, like a child, a lost child.

It’s guided by its emotions and goes from character to character, running them through the prism of its perception and making them undergo a media mutation.

President, journalist, scientist, teenager or housewife, nobody is protected. Together, we are the unwilling protagonists of this multiple-entry disaster tale.”

Olivier Godest, responsable communication et formation. Transmedia Lab.