Judith Aston is a lecturer in the field of ‚Filmmaking and Creative Media‘ at the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol. In addition to practical experience as a ‚creative producer‘, she has an academic background in visual anthropology and interactive design with a dissertation on interactive documentary films. As a practitioner, she worked for BBC Interactive Television and Apple Computing. Judith Aston is co-founder and co-director of i-Docs, a web hub for interactive documentary films.
In her lecture, Judith Aston explored techniques of interactive storytelling and the creative potential of linear, multilinear and non-linear narrative strategies.