{"id":28,"date":"2014-09-05T21:21:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T21:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2014-09-26T19:31:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T19:31:15","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/?page_id=28","title":{"rendered":"Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Cora Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Story:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Found in a tree deep in the Brazilian Amazon as a baby, Cora\u2019s story is an interactive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Visual-Cora-V3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-21 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Visual-Cora-V3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Visual Cora V3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Visual-Cora-V3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Visual-Cora-V3-210x210.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Visual-Cora-V3-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Visual-Cora-V3-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>tale that intertwines reality and fiction, and weaves fantasy and adventure around the life of a young woman obsessed with fashion and birds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The Cora Project, with all of its story-centered and data-centered transmedia elements set against a backdrop of ecological threats to humans and birds alike, has two important goals:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<li>Inspiring young women to find their own bird (identity), own fashion, and own voice;<\/li>\n<li>And helping to create a global market for eco-fashion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a title=\"The Cora Project\" href=\"http:\/\/TheCoraProject.net\" target=\"_blank\">TheCoraProject.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">xOcean Caf\u00e9&#8217;s role:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Lead production; executive production; content, project and financial strategy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">We&#8217;re working together with the Cora team to develop a global franchise. \u00a0 The Cora Project combines storytelling and the development of non-fiction apps. \u00a0 \u00a0Brands, apps development, storytelling across multiple platforms, live events, games, partnerships&#8230; \u00a0xOcean Caf\u00e9 is integrating all of these elements with an eye toward revenue-positive global distribution. \u00a0 \u00a0We&#8217;re developing both content and project strategies that are suited to regional markets in the Americas, Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Partners:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The\u00a0In.Visible Continent, Translimit Storytelling,\u00a0Alison Norrington of Story Central, and Sam Stamp of Mission Media.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Previous projects:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u00a0Untitled Oceania\u00a0documentary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Story:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">An island nation in the South Pacific has an antiquated power structure &#8211; <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-23 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Slide-1b_1920x720-1024x384-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Slide-1b_1920x720-1024x384\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Slide-1b_1920x720-1024x384-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Slide-1b_1920x720-1024x384-210x210.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Slide-1b_1920x720-1024x384-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Slide-1b_1920x720-1024x384-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>leftovers from clonial powers who had little interest in suiting infrastructure to the local landscape and culture. \u00a0 \u00a0Petroleum is being transported from the US to run untended metal generators that are being eaten away by a bacteria on the island. \u00a0 \u00a0Homes have as little as one hour of electricity\u00a0per evening. \u00a0 \u00a0This island nation needs a new power infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Meanwhile, Kiribati, a neighboring island nation to the southeast has had to make a wrenching decision &#8211; climate change and sea level rise will make the islands uninhabitable soon and\u00a0completely underwater\u00a0within 30\u00a0years &#8211; and so the entire island nation has contracted with Fiji\u00a0to sell them land and let them create a &#8216;reservation&#8217; of Kiribati\u00a0culture a piece of Fiji&#8217;s Vanua Levu\u00a0island.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">What should the island nation do? \u00a0 \u00a0How do they choose a power infrastructure that can withstand the island&#8217;s metal-eating bacteria? \u00a0 \u00a0How do they address their cultural antipathy toward maintenance? \u00a0 \u00a0Should they embrace technologies that don&#8217;t contribute to climate change and sea-level rise? \u00a0 \u00a0And what about the cost?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">xOcean Caf\u00e9&#8217;s role:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Executive and transmedia production.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Partner:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">Romano Film and Photography \u00a0<a title=\"Romano Film and Photography\" href=\"http:\/\/urobertoromano.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/urobertoromano.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cora Project Story: Found in a tree deep in the Brazilian Amazon as a baby, Cora\u2019s story is an interactive tale that intertwines reality and fiction, and weaves fantasy and adventure around the life of a young woman obsessed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"fullwidth_notitle-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xoceancafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}