Venice has unveiled the full lineup of its immersive section, which is held every year in the lush island of Lazzaretto Vecchio, a short boat ride from the Lido.
Launched in 2019 as Xr – Extended Reality, the section now has a bigger scope as reflected by its new name, Venice Immersive. As much as 43 projects from 19 countries and 32 works will be presented as part of the sidebar.
Spanning installations, live performances and virtual worlds, Venice Immersive will showcase 30 projects in competition, as well as 10 projects out of competition, among others. An international jury, presided over by May Abdalla from the U.K. and comprising of David Adler from Denmark and Blanca Li from Spain, will hand out three prizes for best experience, grand jury prize and special jury prize.
Venice was one of the first film festivals in the world to spotlight virtual reality. The development of a VR Theater in...
Launched in 2019 as Xr – Extended Reality, the section now has a bigger scope as reflected by its new name, Venice Immersive. As much as 43 projects from 19 countries and 32 works will be presented as part of the sidebar.
Spanning installations, live performances and virtual worlds, Venice Immersive will showcase 30 projects in competition, as well as 10 projects out of competition, among others. An international jury, presided over by May Abdalla from the U.K. and comprising of David Adler from Denmark and Blanca Li from Spain, will hand out three prizes for best experience, grand jury prize and special jury prize.
Venice was one of the first film festivals in the world to spotlight virtual reality. The development of a VR Theater in...
- 7/27/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Venice’s Xr strand has rebranded to include immersive media beyond VR.
Venice Immersive, the Xr (extended reality) section of the Venice International Film Festival, has unveiled its official selection for 2022 with 30 projects playing in competition.
Six of the Xr competition projects come from the UK, including Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom, a VR spin-off from the hit drama series.
A dark action-adventure VR game that will immerse players in the world of the show, Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom is produced by UK games developer Maze Theory and will launch later this year.
Formerly known as Venice VR Expanded,...
Venice Immersive, the Xr (extended reality) section of the Venice International Film Festival, has unveiled its official selection for 2022 with 30 projects playing in competition.
Six of the Xr competition projects come from the UK, including Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom, a VR spin-off from the hit drama series.
A dark action-adventure VR game that will immerse players in the world of the show, Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom is produced by UK games developer Maze Theory and will launch later this year.
Formerly known as Venice VR Expanded,...
- 7/27/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
‘Judy & Punch’. (Photo: Ben King)
Two Aussie films, Mirrah Foulkes’ Judy & Punch and Ben Lawrence’s Hearts and Bones, will be among the 12 features in official competition at this year’s Sydney Film Festival (Sff).
Also up for the festival’s $60,000 Sydney Film Prize are Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Never Look Away, which was nominated for two Oscars; recent Cannes selections such as Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory, Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite, and Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ Bacurau; Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award winner Monos, from directors Alejandro Landes and Alexis Dos; Joanna Hogg’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner The Souvenir; Nadav Lapid’s Golden Bear winner Synonymes, as well as Sacha Polak’s Dirty God, Teona Strugar Mitevska’s God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya, and Kiwi director Hamish Bennett’s Bellbird.
Sydney Film Festival launched the full program for its 66th...
Two Aussie films, Mirrah Foulkes’ Judy & Punch and Ben Lawrence’s Hearts and Bones, will be among the 12 features in official competition at this year’s Sydney Film Festival (Sff).
Also up for the festival’s $60,000 Sydney Film Prize are Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Never Look Away, which was nominated for two Oscars; recent Cannes selections such as Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory, Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite, and Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ Bacurau; Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award winner Monos, from directors Alejandro Landes and Alexis Dos; Joanna Hogg’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner The Souvenir; Nadav Lapid’s Golden Bear winner Synonymes, as well as Sacha Polak’s Dirty God, Teona Strugar Mitevska’s God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya, and Kiwi director Hamish Bennett’s Bellbird.
Sydney Film Festival launched the full program for its 66th...
- 5/8/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Hollie Fifer's The Opposition.
Thirteen Australian documentaries will be shown at the 2016 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, taking place in Toronto from April 28 to May 8, including eight feature documentaries and five shorts - as well as a music video from Fell screenwriter and director Natasha Pincus..
Putuparri and the Rainmakers, winner of the 2015 CinéfestOZ Film Prize, will have its international premiere at the festival and will be shown as part of the Made In Australia program..
The other Australian documentary features in the festival program are.Hotel Coolgardie, from director Peter Gleeson and producers Melissa Hayward and Kate Neylon; Chasing Asylum, from director-producer Eva Orner; In the Shadow of the Hill, from director Dan Jackson; The Opposition, from director Hollie Fifer and producers Rebecca Barry and Madeleine Hetherton; Zach's Ceremony, from director Aaron Peterson, writer/producer Sarah Linton and producer Alec Doomadgee; and Another Country, from writer/director/producer Molly Reynolds,...
Thirteen Australian documentaries will be shown at the 2016 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, taking place in Toronto from April 28 to May 8, including eight feature documentaries and five shorts - as well as a music video from Fell screenwriter and director Natasha Pincus..
Putuparri and the Rainmakers, winner of the 2015 CinéfestOZ Film Prize, will have its international premiere at the festival and will be shown as part of the Made In Australia program..
The other Australian documentary features in the festival program are.Hotel Coolgardie, from director Peter Gleeson and producers Melissa Hayward and Kate Neylon; Chasing Asylum, from director-producer Eva Orner; In the Shadow of the Hill, from director Dan Jackson; The Opposition, from director Hollie Fifer and producers Rebecca Barry and Madeleine Hetherton; Zach's Ceremony, from director Aaron Peterson, writer/producer Sarah Linton and producer Alec Doomadgee; and Another Country, from writer/director/producer Molly Reynolds,...
- 4/4/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The films that open the Sydney and Melbourne film festivals, Not Suitable for Children and The Sapphires, are among six Australian films that have been scheduled by distributors in the next four months.
Icon is ushering Peter Templeman.s Not Suitable for Children, starring Ryan Kwanten, Ryan Corr and Sarah Snook, into cinemas on July 12, five weeks after it opens the Sydney Film Festival tonight, while Hopscotch releases Wayne Blair.s The Sapphires on August 9, only a week after it opens the Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff).
The other local films approaching the starting gates are the documentary My America from Rialto (August 19), the highly anticipated Kath and Kinderella (September 6) from Roadshow, Bait 3D (September 20) from Paramount, and Mental (October 4) from Universal,
My America is a very personal exploration of the Us by director Peter Hegedus. For many, he says, America remains a symbol of opportunity, for some it.s a beacon of hope,...
Icon is ushering Peter Templeman.s Not Suitable for Children, starring Ryan Kwanten, Ryan Corr and Sarah Snook, into cinemas on July 12, five weeks after it opens the Sydney Film Festival tonight, while Hopscotch releases Wayne Blair.s The Sapphires on August 9, only a week after it opens the Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff).
The other local films approaching the starting gates are the documentary My America from Rialto (August 19), the highly anticipated Kath and Kinderella (September 6) from Roadshow, Bait 3D (September 20) from Paramount, and Mental (October 4) from Universal,
My America is a very personal exploration of the Us by director Peter Hegedus. For many, he says, America remains a symbol of opportunity, for some it.s a beacon of hope,...
- 6/6/2012
- by Sandy George
- IF.com.au
The films that open the Sydney and Melbourne film festivals, Not Suitable for Children and The Sapphires, are among six Australian films scheduled by distributors in the next four months.
Icon is ushering Peter Templeman.s Not Suitable for Children, starring Ryan Kwanten, Ryan Corr and Sarah Snook, into cinemas on July 12, five weeks after it opens the Sydney Film Festival tonight, while Hopscotch releases Wayne Blair.s The Sapphires on August 9, only a week after it opens the Melbourne International Film Festival.
The other local films approaching the starting gates are the documentary My America from Rialto (August 19), the highly anticipated Kath and Kinderella (September 6) from Roadshow, Bait 3D (September 20) from Paramount, and Mental (October 4) from Universal,
My America is a very personal exploration of the Us by director Peter Hegedus. For many, he says, America remains a symbol of opportunity, for some it.s a beacon of hope,...
Icon is ushering Peter Templeman.s Not Suitable for Children, starring Ryan Kwanten, Ryan Corr and Sarah Snook, into cinemas on July 12, five weeks after it opens the Sydney Film Festival tonight, while Hopscotch releases Wayne Blair.s The Sapphires on August 9, only a week after it opens the Melbourne International Film Festival.
The other local films approaching the starting gates are the documentary My America from Rialto (August 19), the highly anticipated Kath and Kinderella (September 6) from Roadshow, Bait 3D (September 20) from Paramount, and Mental (October 4) from Universal,
My America is a very personal exploration of the Us by director Peter Hegedus. For many, he says, America remains a symbol of opportunity, for some it.s a beacon of hope,...
- 6/6/2012
- by Sandy George
- IF.com.au
There’s a decidedly oriental tinge to this year’s Gold Coast Film Festival. Jiang Wen’s extremely successful rice-noodle Chinese comedy western Let The Bullets Fly (which had its premiere at the Brisbane International Film Festival – read my review Here) has been chosen as the opening night film and there’s a ‘Cool Japan’ line-up which features the Australian premieres of Makoto Shinkai‘s (Voice of a Distant Star) exquisitely rendered anime Children Who Chase Lost Voices From Deep Below - a nostalgic and mystical adventure concerning family loss which firmly places the young director in a league with the laudable likes of manga masters Katsuhiro Ohtomo, Mamoru Oshii and Hayao Miyazaki. On the non-animated front we have the welcome return screenings of Anh Hung Tran‘s Sydney Film festival favourite Norweigan Wood and Takashi Miike‘s kinetic Seven Samurai throwback 13 Assassins. Two further manic manga adaptations, Shinsuke Sato...
- 11/21/2011
- by Oliver Pfeiffer
- Obsessed with Film
Is the Catholic Church in need of a facelift? The key figure in upcoming documentary The Trouble with St Mary.s . Parish Priest Peter Kennedy.. believes so. He is presently excommunicated by the Church. When Father Peter Kennedy was sacked by the Catholic Church for unorthodox practices in 2009, the dispute resulted in one of the biggest rifts in Australian Catholic Church history. Developed and co-financed by Screen Queensland and ABC, The Trouble with St Mary.s is a new feature documentary designed to inspire the viewer to .question their own beliefs and not to take them for granted,. according to writer/producer/director Peter Hegedus, .and to look at their own lives and ask: What do I believe in and who do I affect with what I.m...
- 5/25/2011
- by Milana Vulovic
- IF.com.au
Sound company Audioloc will move out of its Lindfield facilities, and start offering its services via a network of freelancers operating at their home studios.
“We’re very positive about this move because we’ll continue our sound supervision work, rather than spending so much energy maintaining a facility that is not needed anymore. It’s a sign of the times; does it really matter these days whether you’re working in the next room or the next suburb?” managing director John Dennison told Encore.
Dennison said that the end of their lease at the Screen Australia complex in Lindfield was an “appropriate” time for this move, due to the state of the industry and the overhead costs that made it impossible to sustain the facilities, including the Crystal Palace mixing room.
“We have a strong team and with the nature of technology, we don’t all have to be all in one place anymore.
“We’re very positive about this move because we’ll continue our sound supervision work, rather than spending so much energy maintaining a facility that is not needed anymore. It’s a sign of the times; does it really matter these days whether you’re working in the next room or the next suburb?” managing director John Dennison told Encore.
Dennison said that the end of their lease at the Screen Australia complex in Lindfield was an “appropriate” time for this move, due to the state of the industry and the overhead costs that made it impossible to sustain the facilities, including the Crystal Palace mixing room.
“We have a strong team and with the nature of technology, we don’t all have to be all in one place anymore.
- 6/25/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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