Red Sea International Film Festival announces Virtual Reality competition - BroadcastProME.com

The Virtual Reality programme volition beryllium connected show astatine the Ritz Carlton Hotel from December 2- 8, 2022.

The Red Sea International Film Festival has announced the programme for their Virtual Reality competition, celebrating immersive creation and entertainment.

The programme volition diagnostic 10 virtual world productions representing the champion of planetary VR creativity from 2022, which volition beryllium successful contention with each different for the Gold and Silver Yusr Awards. The Gold Yusr Award is worthy $10,000.

Red Sea: Virtual Reality volition besides collaborate with Ithra Creative Solutions Programme, the archetypal improvement programme for immersive works successful Saudi Arabia, to showcase 4 projects from this year’s cohort. These volition see The Anticipation of Rain, Alqatt al-Asiri, Wamdah – a Glimpse to the Future, and Story of Science – Reflection connected the Cosmos.

Speaking astir the category, Kaleem Aftab, Director of International Programming, said: “The Red Sea International Film Festival is highly arrogant to contiguous this year’s Virtual Reality Programme. The enactment of pieces represents the precise champion immersive experiences from each implicit the world, coupling creation with cutting-edge exertion and gathering the aboriginal of storytelling.”

Liz Rosenthal, Curator of Red Sea: Virtual Reality programme, added: “We person immoderate genuinely phenomenal pieces successful this year’s selection, including 1 of the archetypal multi-player mixed world experiences. These artists are investigating the boundaries of originative anticipation successful a thought-provoking and inclusive way.”

The 10 works successful the contention see (Hi)story of a Painting: The Light successful the Shadow, directed by Gaëlle Mourre and Quentin Darras, victor of the Special Jury Prize astatine SXSW 2022. The animated, immersive and interactive acquisition aims to prosecute young audiences successful the communicative of Artemisia Gentileschi, a pistillate Baroque creator who recovered occurrence against each odds, becoming 1 of Europe’s astir celebrated and in-demand painters of her time.

Directed by German Heller and victor of the Special Jury Prize, Venice Immersive, Venice International Film Festival, Eggscape is simply a mixed world multi-player crippled successful which participants usage controllers to support their terrified small ovum struggling to past successful assorted challenging environments.

Elele means ‘hands conscionable hands’ successful Turkish and is produced by a Turkish-Dutch squad and directed by Sjoerd van Acker. Using controllers, a VR headset and an archetypal physics soundtrack, it invites participants to creation utilizing lone their hands – but the acquisition makes the dancer question, whose hands are they really?

Directed by Celine Daemen, Eurydice, a Descent into Infinity, is simply a Virtual Reality opera inspired by the past story of Orpheus and Eurydice, the assemblage walks a solitary travel to an in-between space, betwixt substance and eternity, successful which clip fades and the laws of abstraction go obsolete.

Interactive animation From the Main Square by Pedro Harres, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Venice Immersive astatine the Venice International Film Festival, takes the spectator connected a travel done clip and the emergence and autumn of civilizations – each from the position of a azygous main municipality square.

Emmy-nominated Kingdom of Plants With David Attenborough is an immersive documentary that uses cutting-edge photographic exertion to bring the spectator to the precise bosom of the battles and dramas raging successful the different unassuming undergrowth.

Based connected existent events, On the Morning You Wake to the End of the World is an animated documentary that tells the communicative of a regular Saturday greeting successful 2018 erstwhile the full colonisation of Hawaii received an SMS to pass them of an impending ballistic rocket onslaught and were instructed to question structure immediately.

In a female-centric re-telling of a Brothers Grimm people tale, directed by Julie Cavaliere, Nyssa tells the communicative of a fearless but naïve young witch who goes successful hunt of her artifact broom. Along the way, she meets a acquainted tone called Blue, but indispensable prevention her colony from Temencaag, the carnal of darkness.

Directed by Ellen Utrecht, Shores of Loci is simply a fantastical world-building puzzle crippled that maximises the afloat imaginable of Virtual Reality to immerse the subordinate into epic environments of mythical creatures to assistance them rebuild their magical worlds.

The Man Who Couldn’t Leave directed by Singing Chen won Best Immersive Experience, the Top Prize for Venice Immersive astatine the Venice International Film Festival.

The Virtual Reality programme volition beryllium connected show astatine the Ritz Carlton Hotel betwixt 14:00 – 22:00 from 2- 8 December 2022. Audiences volition beryllium required to publication tickets successful beforehand for access: for non-accredited guests, tickets volition beryllium sold astatine SAR 20 ($5.32) for a azygous rubric and SAR 100 ($26.60) for a afloat walk to presumption each 10 projects.