Month: June 2025

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Back To The Past

2025 Official Selection: Immersive Short – AR/VR/MR/360

Rui Barbosa is a historic Brazilian who lived in the later 19th to the 20th century. Famous for being an abolitionist, jurist and politician, he is waiting for his wife to get dressed to go to a party. While he waits, help him fix a historic scanned car and find out more about his house that would become a museum. This experience uses only hands as controllers to give the viewers an incredible immersive experience using Meta Quest 3. Put your seat belt and come back to the past!

Director(s): Dario Melo Maciel
Writer(s): Dario Melo Maciel
Producer(s): Dario Melo Maciel

Country: Brazil

Back To The Past will be part of the VR Pavilion
at the FI-LA 2025 Opening Night Gala

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Max Q

2025 Official Selection: Immersive Short – AR/VR/MR/360

Max Q is an animated 6DOF virtual reality film about a deep space survey team that finds their relationships pushed to the brink when they embark upon a dangerous search and rescue mission on an unexplored alien world.

Director(s): Joel Benjamin
Writer(s): Brad Riddell
Producer(s): Joel Benjamin, Brad Riddell
Key Cast: Arti Ishak, Antonio Rodriguez

Country: United States

Max Q will be part of the VR Pavilion
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paSSive poWer

2025 Official Selection: Immersive Short – AR/VR/MR/360

A sonic visual 8K 4D 360 VR collaborative experience. Wind, Lasers, Chanting.. “paSSive poWer” aims at putting focus on the more subtle energies of human co-existence otherwise deemed as meekness. Or as filmmaker / artist JB ghuman JR has dubbed them, the “paSSive poWers.” Combining breathing / chanting / sensory & cerebral exploration into a immersive cinematic experience. Shot on the incredible 11K Insta360 TITAN Camera.

Director(s): JB Singh Ghuman, Jr.
Writer(s): JB Singh Ghuman, Jr.

Country: United States

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Curveball

2025 Official Selection: Screenplay – Feature Film – LGBTQ+

When his fiancé is taken hostage during his European wedding weekend, a groom discovers he’s marrying into a wealthy art crime family and must work with his in-laws to steal a priceless painting in order to save his husband-to-be.

Writer(s): Nick Kilgore

 

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