Agenda.ge’s big day: Our first interactive web documentary releases
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Agenda.ge’s team is proud to conclude the 2015 year with publishing its largest project ever – an interactive web documentary ‘Tbilisi flood: A city that changed overnight’.
The project went public today but was presented to a smaller group of society on December 13 to mark six months since Georgia’s capital Tbilisi was hit by a deadly flash flood on June 13, 2015, which turned out to be the city’s worst human and infrastructural disaster in years.
Our team has spent days and nights creating the online documentary project that united dozes of stories from the three most affected locations in central Tbilisi: Svanidze Street, Vere River Valley and Tbilisi Zoo.
Heavy rain, flooded streets, a "colossal” landslide, a submerged zoo, damaged roads, houses swept away, escaped wild animals and death – central Tbilisi experienced all this and more on the night of June 13. Photo by Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
Creatively mixing text, photography, video and Google Maps, the interactive project gave an insight of central Tbilisi after the deadly flash flood. We used hundreds of videos and thousands of photos to create the web documentary.
Through this project you can experience what it feels like to wander along the flooded streets of Tbilisi in the days following the disaster. This project showed the sheer scale of the damage, the response in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy and a snapshot of the stories of some of the victims of the disaster.
The project was devoted to all people whose lives were lost or changed by the flood, and to the rescuers and volunteers.
We plan to submit the project to various international festivals in the category of web documentary. Wish us luck!
Agenda.ge's Editor-in-chief Natalia Amaglobeli presents the project at the National Parliamentary Library in Tbilisi on December 13, 2015. Photo by Tbilisi City Hall's press office.
The project presentation took place at the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia and it was attended by the people whose lives were captured in the project as well as Tbilisi Mayor David Narmania and local and foreign citizens interested in the topic.
The event also coincided with Agenda.ge’s second birthday.
At the event guests were also able to help the people affected by the disaster. Agenda.ge sold a series of photographs captured by Agenda.ge photographer Nino Alavidze in the days after the flood. All profits will go to the Tbilisi Flood Relief fund.
For those who couldn’t be at the presentation, we launched online sale of the photographs so that everyone currently in Tbilisi is given the opportunity to help the affected families recover from the tragedy.