{{italic title}}{{Infobox video game | title = Fort McMoney | director = David Dufresne | released = 25 November 2013 | genre = Strategy }}
'''''Fort McMoney''''' is a 2013 web documentary and strategy video game about Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada and Athabasca oil sands development, directed by {{Interlanguage link multi|David Dufresne|fr}}. The documentary uses interactive game elements to allow users to decide the city's future and attempt to responsibly develop the world's largest oil sands reserves.
==Game play== The game consists of three episodes, each played in real-time over a four-week period. Starting November 25, users will decide on the virtual future of the city, while exploring the social, economic, political and cultural history of Fort McMurray. Players will be able to virtually walk around the city, meet residents and ask them questions. Each week, they'll be able to vote in referendums and surveys that will affect the city's virtual future, engage in debates, and attempt to win other players over to their "worldview" in order influence the city's development. The game is trilingual: available in English, French, and German.<ref name="Chapsal">{{cite news|url=http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2013/11/20/le-jeu-au-service-du-documentaire|title=Le jeu au service du documentaire|last=Chapsal|first=Agnès|date=20 November 2013|work=QMI Agency|format=Interview|publisher=Journal de Montréal|language=French|accessdate=21 November 2013|location=Montreal}}</ref><ref name=Cooke>{{cite news|url=http://www.mymcmurray.com/nfbs-fort-mcmoney-documentary-game-released-online-november-25/|title=NFB's "Fort McMoney" documentary game released online November 25|last=Cooke|first=Evan|date=4 November 2013|work=MyMcMurray.com|publisher=Rogers Media|accessdate=21 November 2013|location=Fort McMurray|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203114034/http://www.mymcmurray.com/nfbs-fort-mcmoney-documentary-game-released-online-november-25/|archive-date=3 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Production== ''Fort McMoney'' incorporates 60 days of filming in more than 22 locations in the city, including 55 interviews. Research took place over 2 years, with 2000 hours of footage shot, at a cost of C$870,000. It is a collaboration of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and TOXA in association with Arte. Dufresne has stated he is drawn to stories about single-industry towns, having previously directed an award-winning webdoc about Cañon City, Colorado, entitled ''Prison Valley''. The project features photographs by Philippe Brault.<ref name=Chapsal/><ref name="Elfassi">{{cite news|url=http://voir.ca/nouvelles/actualite-web/2013/11/21/interactif-lonf-lance-fort-mcmoney-documentaire-dont-vous-etes-le-heros/|title=L'ONF lance Fort McMoney, documentaire dont vous êtes le héros|last=Elfassi|first=Joseph|date=21 November 2013|work=Voir|publisher=Urbacom|language=French|accessdate=21 November 2013|location=Montreal}}</ref><ref name="Deglise">{{cite news|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/393107/un-web-documentaire-dont-vous-etes-le-heros|title=Fort McMoney - Un web-documentaire dont vous êtes le héros|last=Deglise|first=Fabien|date=19 November 2013|work=Le Devoir|language=French|accessdate=21 November 2013|location=Montreal}}</ref><ref name="HuffPo">{{cite news|url=http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/18/fort-mcmoney-jeu-documentaire_n_4295708.html|title="Fort McMoney", jeu documentaire au coeur de l'industrie pétrolière|date=18 November 2013|work=Agence France-Presse|publisher=Huffington Post Quebec|language=French|accessdate=21 November 2013}}</ref> It was produced by Philippe Lamarre and Raphaëlle Huysmans (TOXA) and Hugues Sweeney and Dominique Willieme (NFB), in association with Arte.<ref name="NFBpr">{{cite press release | url=http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/press-room/press-releases-media-kits/?idpres=21069 | title=The NFB at the 16th Montreal International Documentary Festival | publisher=National Film Board of Canada | date=23 October 2013 | accessdate=21 November 2013}}</ref>
==Release== ''Fort McMoney'' is being launched at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, with pre-launch events in Paris, Toronto and Montreal, as part of Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, an international documentary film festival.<ref name=Chapsal/><ref name=Cooke/> It will also be accessible online via four media partners: ''The Globe and Mail'' and Radio-Canada in Canada, as well as France's ''Le Monde'' and Germany's ''Süddeutsche Zeitung''.<ref name="HuffPo" />
In February 2015, ''Fort McMoney'' was named Best Original Interactive Production Produced for Digital Media at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/academy-announces-canadian-screen-awards-winners/1003494359/|title=Academy Announces Canadian Screen Awards' Winner|date=25 February 2015|work=Broadcaster Magazine|accessdate=15 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227012019/http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/academy-announces-canadian-screen-awards-winners/1003494359/|archive-date=27 February 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{Official website}} *[http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/david-dufresne/fort-mcmoney-votre-vision-du-monde_b_4318750.html ''Fort McMoney: faites triompher votre vision du monde!''], director's blog at Huffington Post (in French) *[http://www.doclab.org/2013/fort-mcmoney/ ''Fort McMoney''] at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
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Category:Video games set in Canada Category:Fort McMurray Category:National Film Board of Canada web documentaries Category:Quebec websites Category:Works about petroleum Category:Environmental education video games Category:Documentary films about Alberta Category:Athabasca oil sands Category:Canadian Screen Award winning digital content Category:Video games developed in Canada Category:2013 Canadian films
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