Rescue Dina Foxx! (orig. German title: Wer rettet Dina Foxx?), is atransmedia event by the German television network Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF). Development was helmed by director and co-writer Max Zeitler[1][2] in cooperation with ZDF, teamWorx and UFA-lab.[1][3] The event took place in Germany in April/May 2011 and lasted for six weeks combining TV and internet to highlight the dangers of digital identity theft.[4] Rescue Dina Foxx! was marketed as an "interactive crime story" and turned into Germany's largest alternate reality game to date.[5]
| Rescue Dina Foxx! | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Wer rettet Dina Foxx? (orig. german title) |
| Genre | Transmedia Crime fiction Thriller |
| Developed by | Max Zeitler Kristian Costa-Zahn (Ufa-Lab/online) Burkhard Althoff (ZDF-TV) Milena Bonse (ZDF-online) Leif Alexis (teamWorx/TV) Boris Dennulat Martha Friedrich Markus Kaiserswerth Maxim Kuphal Drita Parduzi Philipp Zimmermann |
| Written by | TV Boris Dennulat Max Zeitler Online Philipp Zimmermann |
| Directed by | Max Zeitler |
| Starring | Jesssika Richter Max Woelky Sven Gerhard Björn Bugri Thomas Spencer Natascha Hockwin Tim Morton Uhlenbrock Laura Schwickerath |
| Theme music composer | Ross Spencer Robert Galic (RAS) |
| Opening theme | Looking at You by Ross Spencer RAS |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Original language | German |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Leif Alexis (TV) Kristian Costa-Zahn (online) Jochen Laube |
| Cinematography | Florian Foest |
| Editor | Angelika von Charnier |
| Running time | 58 minutes project: 6 weeks |
| Production companies | teamWorx (TV) Ufa-lab (online) |
| Budget | € 320.000 |
| Original release | |
| Network | ZDF |
| Release | April 20, 2011 |
A TV-crime thriller introduced the story of Dina Foxx who is arrested for murder but claims her world has been manipulated by a digital doppelganger. The film abruptly ended and invited the audience to "Rescue Dina Foxx" by starting a public investigation on the internet and in reality.[4]
In 2014 ZDF showed the sequel Dina Foxx – Tödlicher Kontakt which in 2015 won the Emmy Award in the category Digital Program:Fiction.[6]
Awards and nominations
editAwards
edit- Banff Television Festival 2012: Interactive: Best Cross-Platform Projekt: Fiction Programs[7][8]
- Banff Television Festival 2012: Best Interactive Television Programs[8][9]
- New York Festivals 2012: Gold Medal, Television - Online: Online Entertainment Program[10]
- Verdi TV-Award 2012: Best TV-Script (Boris Dennulat, Max Zeitler)[11]
Nominations
edit- Rescue Dina Foxx! was nominated for Prix Europa 2011 Online Awards
- ZDF's commissioning editors of Rescue Dina Foxx!, Burkhard Althoff and Milena Bonse, were nominated for Grimme Awards 2011 in the category "Special Achievement in TV Fiction"[12]
- The title sequence of the TV film Rescue Dina Foxx! was a finalist at the SXSW Film Design Awards "Excellence in Title Design".[13] The title sequence was produced by weareflink GmbH.
References
edit- ^ a b "Dina Foxx". dinafoxx.zdf.de. ZDF. Archived from the original on 5 April 2011. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
- ^ Zeitler, Max. "Dina Foxx Creation & Development". www.do4d.com. do4D!. Archived from the original on 2013-04-10.
- ^ Peignois, Julie (Aug 4, 2011). "ZDF schickt Zuschauer im Web auf Spurensuche". dwdl (in German).
- ^ a b "Chancen und Grenzen transmedialer Formate" (PDF). www.result.de/. Result.
- ^ "Rescue Dina Foxx!". Toutube. Ufa-Lab.
- ^ "AwesomenessTV, Digital Productions Feted with International Emmy Awards". Yahoo Entertainment. 2015-04-13. Retrieved 2024-02-15.
- ^ "Banff Winners 2012". Banff media Festival. Archived from the original on 2013-03-16.
- ^ a b "Two Wins for Dina Foxx in Banff". mediabiz.
- ^ "Banff Rockies 2012". Banff Media Festival. Archived from the original on 2013-04-29.
- ^ "NY Festivals Winners 2012". New York Festivals.
- ^ "Verdi TV-Award Winners 2012". verdi. Archived from the original on 2013-04-12.
- ^ "Grimme Nominations 2012". Grimme Award. Archived from the original on 2013-11-05.
- ^ "SXSW title nominations 2012". Watch the Titles. Retrieved 19 February 2013.
External links
edit- Rescue Dina Foxx! YouTube - Project Trailer (in English)
- Rescue Dina Foxx! - Official summary page on ZDF including a 7-minute trailer (in German)
- The TV film - Information about the TV film (in German)
- freidaten.org - The privacy NGO in the center of the cross-media event (in German)
- Avadata - The privacy company where Dina works (in German)
- Privacy Room - Dinas apartment turned into a point&click adventure about privacy issues (German title: Datenschutzraum) (in German)
- Qoppamax - The company providing digital security services (in German)
- IMDb - Rescue Dina Foxx! on the IMDb