David Dufresne is an international award-winning independent writer and filmmaker. He has recently joined the MIT as a Fellow at the Open Documentary Lab, Comparative Media Studies/Writing. Fort McMoney is his new film, an interactive game documentary, produced by ONF/Arte and Toxa and acclaimed by the NY Times as the «wedding of the film and the video game». In 2010, he authored and co-directed Prison Valley, a web documentary, with Philippe Brault (Upian/Arte), which won a host of international awards such as World Press Photo Non Linear Program.
Since 2014, he is visiting-professor of journalism at Académie du Journalisme (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and since 2015 at l’Ecole des Médias in Université du Québec (Montreal, Canada)
David Dufresne was a long-time reporter for Libération and managing editor of iTélé, France’s 24-hour newscast. He has also published a dozen investigation books. He was also one of the first Internet players in France (he published the first webzine, La Rafale, in 1995). Today, David lives in Montreal.
(Artist's web site: davduf.net/_davduf)