Victoria Mapplebeck is an award winning Director, Producer and Writer. Victoria’s films for TV and the web have been commissioned by Dazed and Confused, Film Four, Channel 4, and The Arts Council. She created Channel 4’s first cross platform documentary series, Smart Hearts, in which web cams streamed from the subjects homes for over 18 months and was nominated for a New Media Indie Award. Her latest cross platform project, Text Me, is an animated documentary, and storytelling project, exploring the multitude of stories hidden in our mobile phone memories. In partnership with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Nexus Interactive Arts, we will uncover hundreds of text threads, which will be viewed on the Text Me website and at BALTIC. Text Me recently won The 2014 Pixel Lab Prize. It also won The Merging Media Prize for Best European Cross platform Project, at Power to the Pixel and was featured recently in Wired magazine. Victoria is the Programme Director of the MA in Documentary Practice at Royal Holloway, London University. She has previously lectured at The London Film School, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Royal College of Art, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Banff New Media Institute and The London Film School. Victoria is also a critic, and her features have appeared in The Guardian, The Huffington Post and The Conversation. She is also interviewed regularly for BBC and Sky news on developments in social media.
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