2021
production: NowHere Media
23 minutes, Interactive virtual reality (360° video and animation)
SYNOPSIS
“In the documentary VR experience KUSUNDA, you meet Hima as she reminds her grandfather of his forgotten mother tongue. Navigate through the narrative by speaking words in the sleeping indigenous language, and join the fight for its revitalisation.“
CREDITS
Featuring: Kateryna Mikheitseva, Mariia Tucha, Gamlet Zinkivsky
Directors & producers: Felix Gaedtke, Gayatri Parameswaran Executive producers: Amy Seidenwurm, Eric Cheng
Associate producers: Iryna Sayeivich, Julius Hackspiel, Mia von Kolpakow, Jonathan Gleit, Erika Barraz, Sandra Bialystok
Cinematographer: Philipp Wenning
Editor: Pierre Friquet
Art director: Moritz Mayerhofer
CG-Artist: Henning Schild
Sound designer & music producer: Billy Mello
Post-production: 52Lab Association
AWARDS
SMART Award – 2022 FIPADOC; Best Heritage XP – 2021 Stereopsia Crystal Owl Awards; Storyscapes Award – 20th Tribeca Film Festival; Best Documentary Experience – 2021 Raindance Film Festival; Grand Prize – 2021 VRNow Awards; Best Immersive Cinema – 2021 VRNow Awards; Best Interactive Entertainment – 2021 nextReality Contest
FESTIVALS
Theater Chur; Fantoche; The British Academy Summer Showcase; Silbersalz Festival; Horizons VR @ Phi Centre; RE:PUBLICA 2022; ANIFILM 2022; FIPADOC; Kusunda Community Screening; Red Sea International Film Festival2021; IDFA – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam; Refresh Festival ZHDK; Raindance Film Festival; New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival2021; Lagos International Festival of Animation; Kaohsiung Film Festival 2021; VRE21; 78th Venice International Film Festival; 11th Beijing International Film Festival(postponed); Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival; 20th Tribeca Film Festival
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