The D-Word's life is one of glamour and riches, as only a documentary filmmaker can live it

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Last night, still wearing heavy pancake from my live CNN-FN studio interview, I hightail it out of the city for three whole days with D-Wife and kid. While we're away, Home Page will have it's U.S. broadcast premiere on HBO Signature. On the eve of the airdate, I feel proud, excited and utterly exhausted. I opened my home to the world almost three years ago, virtually speaking, and to moviegoers just over a year ago. The response has been quite amazing.

Tomorrow, a whole new busload of people will be pulling up at my front door and coming in over the transom. Well, I asked for it. I've done a lot of press the past few weeks and it's all pouring in at once, most of it really nice, some really really nice. My personal favorite is Dan Richards' piece in Mindjack.

Ever since Sundance, when the Dot.com blurb got me all dotty, I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to explain the unique interactivity between the website and the film. After every screening at Sundance, Rotterdam, South-by-Southwest, you name it, I'd talk about how I consider the film just the gateway into a much more interesting experiment in multimedia storytelling. In one part, the audience sits back passively and watches a story being told to them, a story which takes place in the transitional Web year, 1996. In the other, the audience can thread their way through the larger, continually evolving story by visiting the Web sites of most of the main characters they've just seen onscreen. Only this time, they take an active involvement in the narrative. In fact, the narrative evolves entirely through their choice of which links to hit.

Organic Theater. Kind of like that term. Now that you've entered the playhouse, feel free to join us onstage: Justin Hall , Julie Petersen , Carl Steadman , Howard Rheingold , Jaime Levy , Patrick Farley, Denise Tenorio , Stefanie Syman , Joey Anuff and Doug Block.

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