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Rescue Dina Foxx!

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Directed by
  
Max Zeitler

Network
  
Genre
  
Crime Fiction

First episode date
  
20 April 2011

Number of seasons
  
1

Language
  
German

Also known as
  
'Wer rettet Dina Foxx?(orig. german title)

Developed by
  
Max ZeitlerKristian Costa-Zahn (Ufa-Lab/online)Burkhard Althoff (ZDF-TV)Milena Bonse (ZDF-online)Leif Alexis (teamWorx/TV)Boris DennulatMartha FriedrichMarkus KaiserswerthMaxim KuphalDrita ParduziPhilipp Zimmermann

Written by
  
TVBoris DennulatMax ZeitlerOnlinePhilipp Zimmermann

Starring
  
Jesssika RichterMax WoelkySven GerhardBjörn BugriThomas SpencerNatascha HockwinTim Morton UhlenbrockLaura Schwickerath

Theme music composer
  
Ross SpencerRobert Galic (RAS)

Rescue dina foxx transmedia case study


Rescue Dina Foxx! (orig. German title: Wer rettet Dina Foxx?), is an award winning transmedia event by the German television network Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF). Development was helmed by director and co-writer Max Zeitler in cooperation with ZDF, teamWorx and UFA-lab. 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. Rescue Dina Foxx! was marketed as an "interactive crime story" and turned into Germany's largest alternate reality game to date.

Contents

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.

Awards

  • Banff Television Festival 2012: Interactive: Best Cross-Platform Projekt: Fiction Programs
  • Banff Television Festival 2012: Best Interactive Television Programs
  • New York Festivals 2012: Gold Medal, Television - Online: Online Entertainment Program
  • Verdi TV-Award 2012: Best TV-Script (Boris Dennulat, Max Zeitler)
  • Nominations

  • 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"
  • The title sequence of the TV film Rescue Dina Foxx! was a finalist at the SXSW Film Design Awards "Excellence in Title Design". The title sequence was produced by weareflink GmbH.
  • References

    Rescue Dina Foxx! Wikipedia