NFB’s ‘Bear 71’ Documentary Now Available as Free VR Experience
Reinvention of the National Film Board of Canada’s award-winning documentary has been showcased at IDFA DocLab and the New Frontiers VR Bar at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
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Elizabeth Banks Traveling to Space in Baobab’s VR Short ‘ASTEROIDS!’
Emmy-nominated actor and director helps VR storytelling go mainstream as the voice of “Cheez” in Baobab Studios’ newest animated virtual reality experience.
Baobab’s ‘ASTEROIDS!’ to Debut at Sundance 2017
Official New Frontier selection from ‘Antz’ and ‘Madagascar’ director Eric Darnell is the follow-up to this year’s ‘INVASION!’
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Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2017 New Frontier Showcase
2017 edition of New Frontier showcase to include 20 VR experiences and 11 installations across three Park City venues.
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WATCH: Shout! Unveils New Clips from ‘Snowtime!’
In select U.S. theaters now, ‘Snowtime!’ is directed by Jean-François Pouliot and co-director François Brisson, and had its premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
Top Sundance Films Created Using Blackmagic Cameras and DaVinci Resolve Studio
More than 35 of Sundance’s hit films were created using BlackMagic Design technology, including Spike Lee’s ‘Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall,’ Kevin Smith’s ‘Yoga Hosers,’ indie superhero movie ‘Sleight,’ and Todd Solondz’s ‘Wiener-Dog.’
‘Giant’ Delivers Cinematic VR Experience at Sundance
Five-minute VR film experience created by developers Jack Caron, Todd Bryant, Omer Shapira and Uros Otasevic and shot in 6K is rendered using the Unreal Engine 4 game engine accelerated by NVIDIA Quadro M6000 GPUs.
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Shout! Factory Premiering ‘Snowtime!’ Feature at Sundance
CarpeDiem feature is directed by Jean-François Pouliot and co-director François Brisson and produced by Marie-Claude Beauchamp; Ross Lynch, Sandra Oh, Angela Galuppo, Lucinda Davis, Sonja Ball, Don Shepherd, Jenna Wheeler, Heidi Lynne Weeks, Elisabeth MacRae and Holly Gauthier lead all-star voice cast.
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Sundance Sets 2016 Animated Short Selections
Twelve animated shorts are selected to screen in competition, including ‘Bob Dylan Hates Me,’ ‘A Coat Made Dark,’ ‘Deer Flower,’ ‘Edmond,’ ‘Glove,’ ‘The Grandfather Drum,’ ‘The Itching,’ ‘Life Smartphone,’ ‘Limbo Limbo Travel,’ ‘Pombo Loves You,’ Shiny’ and ‘Waves '98.’
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NFB Releases Vincent Morisset’s ‘Way to Go’ Online
An interactive experience “for human beings between 5 and 105 years old,” ‘Way to Go’ is the follow-up to Morisset’s 2014 SXSW winner ‘BLA BLA.’
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Don Hertzfeldt’s ‘World of Tomorrow’ Wins Sundance Short Film Grand Jury Prize
‘Storm Hits Jacket’ from French director and screenwriter Paul Cabon receives the Short Film Jury Award for Animation.
Sundance Film Festival Announces 2015 Short Film Program
Thirteen animated shorts are selected for the 2015 Sundance Film Festival Short Film program.
