Sundance Film Festival

Ran into Chris Brickler in the Intel Experience Zone. He’s exactly the kind of person Intel is counting on to remake media. A longtime music producer and international dotcom bubble boy (GTE, BT and a few well-endowed startups) he’s hard at work now building an evolving, music-driven, documentary and community called Truth in Relationships.

Let’s back up. The plan started as a family project to capture a video account of his grandparents’ 65-year marriage. Chris had done some corporate video, he knew his way around a Sony PD150 and Sony Vegas. He knew how to score his own work, and in some cases even let the score lead. Since then, he has filmed 25 people on 4 continents, as well as relationship experts NAMES–some shot with loaner cameras he distributed among trusted friends. The result is kind of an organically-growing amalgamation of relationship stories…most recently a My Space posting elicited hundreds of responses from people who wanted to talk on camera about commitment, adultery, love, sex, marriage.

But before the film was even finished, Chris also launched a site and community and began playing out pieces of the footage into an environment that invited comment, blogging, etc. He talks about things like online documentary portals and the possibility that people will eventually contribute their own video–or remix his, just as people have done worldwide with his music.