One of our readers, Martin Kunert, wrote in to point out an “omission” in Wikinomics:
You mentioned the wikiized film created by the Beastie Boys in 2006. The first wiki-based film was in fact mine – VOICES OF IRAQ – made in 2004, where sent 150 DV cameras into Iraq and had Iraqis film their own country. Several hundred Iraqis participated, passing cameras from hand to hand, and sending us the resulting video tapes. The tapes were edited into a feature documentary which went into US theaters in the fall of 2004, and overseas in 2005. To record this new genre of collaborative filmmaking, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences added VOICES OF IRAQ to its permanent collection.
You can read more about Voices of Iraq on Wikipedia. Thanks Martin!
