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Kaltura and Intelligent Television Partner to Enhance Cultural and Educational Projects With Rich-Media Collaboration
Kaltura Further Expands Its Global Network of Partners, Users, Content, and Services That Allows Unprecedented Collaboration Around Rich-Media Creation, Remixing and Distribution
| Source: Kaltura
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - January 28, 2008) - Kaltura, Inc., a pioneer in Collaborative
Media, and Intelligent Television, a new nonfiction media company,
announced today that the organizations will work together on several joint
experiments revolving around culture and education using
rich-media in the community.
"Intelligent Television is all about educational productions, public media,
and community projects, so Kaltura's concept of group collaboration in
rich-media fits our business philosophy like a glove," said Peter B.
Kaufman from Intelligent Television. "Featuring the Kaltura platform in our
new productions and in our research projects with moving image archives is
very exciting."
The companies invite the community to join and contribute time, skills and
ideas, as well as suggestions of relevant projects.
"It's great to work with Intelligent Television, a producer with the same
values and visions of community and joint creation as Kaltura," said Ron
Yekutiel, Chairman and CEO of Kaltura. "This relationship is an important
addition to the Kaltura Global Network, en route of making Kaltura the
standard of online rich-media editing and collaboration."
Kaltura and Intelligent Television will work on a variety of joint projects
including a new documentary history of the Korean War with Jigsaw
Productions and Intelligent Television's multiyear Memory Project.
"The Longest Winter" tells the story of America in the Korean War based on
the book "The Longest Winter" from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David
Halberstam. "The Longest Winter" film is centered on eyewitness accounts
and archival media, including rare color film shot during the conflict.
Producers Intelligent Television and Jigsaw Productions combine traditional
narration, contemporary voices from soldiers and others caught in the
events, interviews with veterans, and Halberstam's words and voice to bring
a new sensory experience to the telling of wartime history -- and a fresh
sense of relevance for the television viewer of today. Using Kaltura's
platform, the archive of material from the film and many of the interviews
that are being conducted will be made available to the public to annotate
and mix online -- see more at
http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/browse?kshow_id=99428.
The Memory Project is a blend of new and archival media about the nature of
memory produced by award-winning filmmaker Vanessa Roth. Kaltura
technology will also be featured prominently in the work of Intelligent
Television's new educational video studio, which the company launched in
November 2007.
About Intelligent Television
Intelligent Television produces innovative films, television, and video in
close association with leading cultural and educational institutions and
world-renowned producers, directors, and cinematographers. Intelligent
Television's productions, research projects, consulting services, and
conferences focus on making educational and cultural material more widely
accessible worldwide. Intelligent Television's productions seek to network
production facilities, production and archival expertise, and digital media
content at cultural and educational institutions. The company's
productions are supported by foundations, corporations, government
agencies, and individuals. Intelligent Television's research projects
explore new ways of funding and opening educational and cultural content.
Intelligent Television's conferences draw leading thinkers from around the
world committed to broadening access to truth and beauty. Intelligent
Television consulting services help commercial and noncommercial
institutions that market and distribute moving-image and recorded-sound
archives. In 2007, with two years of seed support from the William and
Flora Hewlett Foundation, Intelligent Television launched an educational
video studio to produce high-quality video resources systematically for
education.
For more information visit http://www.intelligenttelevision.com.
About Kaltura
Kaltura is a New York-based pioneer in Collaborative Media, allowing groups
of users to create rich-media projects together using video, audio, and
animation, similarly to what wiki platforms enable with text. Kaltura's
revolutionary concept of group-video-making provides the incentive and
opportunity for people to 'lean forward' and create rich-media with friends
and like-minded people. Kaltura's technology is implemented in the
kaltura.com portal, available to all for free; and is also licensed to
other websites, social networks, and brands for their customized and
integrated use. Together, Kaltura's partners comprise the Kaltura Global
Network, the world's largest network of re-mixable, shared and legal
rich-media content, and creators. Founded in 2006, Kaltura's management and
advisory team includes top notch advertising, marketing, and media
executives as well as seasoned technology entrepreneurs, including
co-founders of ICQ, Cyota, and Destinator Technologies.
Since its public launch in September 2007, Kaltura has won the People's
Choice Award at both the TechCrunch40 event, and the Mashable Open Web
Awards. For more information visit www.kaltura.com or visit the Kaltura
blog at www.kaltura.com/blog/.