The Horrifically Real Virtuality, The Roaming – Wetlands and Kobold Will Compete for ‘Best VR Experience for Interactive Content’
Pioneers of VR distribution, Diversion cinema, will attend this year’s Venice Film Festival with productions, “The Horrifically Real Virtuality,” “The Roaming – Wetlands” and “Kobold.” All three experiences will make their world premiere in competition for ‘Best VR Experience (Interactive Content).’
This is the second year for Venice Virtual Reality and the 75th Venice International Film Festival, organised by La Biennale di Venezia. “The Diversion cinema team is very proud to be back in Venice representing immersive productions from highly talented creative teams, pushing forward new forms of storytelling,” said Paul Bouchard , Head of Acquisitions & International Distribution. “The artistic value of these productions is apparent, however distribution of immersive contents remains challenging.
Premiering these projects at Venice allows us the opportunity to present artistic VR experiences with a distribution economic model.,” said Bouchard. A nod to classic 1960’s-era B movies “The Horrifically Real Virtuality,” paints an introspective portrait of the emerging VR landscape, aiming to evoke, with tenderness and self-mockery, its unflinching relationship with cinema, when Bela Lugosi, long confined in roles of famous vampires, is entrusted by his old friend Ed Wood, a young Hollywood Z movies director.
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Openly quoting Charles Laughton’s “The Night of The Hunter (1956)” Pradat’s “The Roaming – Wetlands” invites its audience to pursue their own harrowing adventure into darkness, when two children narrowly escape an encounter with a malevolent man thanks to a mysterious light.
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Max Sacker’s multimedia project, “Kobold,” consists of a short film and interactive VR experience where the narrative transfers seamlessly between cinema and virtual reality inviting the actions of the viewer to immerse themselves inside the investigation, collect clues and solve the mystery from the film, years after it took place.
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Diversion cinema brought the first virtual reality theatre to audiences in 2016. Since then they have made the world of VR their ultimate focus, distributing carefully curated content and delivering the highest quality in immersive exhibits. Their commitment to the new media space has been recognized at film festivals around the world including Venice, Cannes and Dubai.
In addition to their three projects in competition, Diversion cinema is also distributing two projects as part of the Venice Production Bridge, “-22.7°C,” and “Marco Polo Go Round.”
Source: Diversion Cinema