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Guanajuato International Film Festival

Epicentro Showcase

Epicentro promotes innovation exploring current topics in innovative ways, with a special emphasis on eco-social impact. In 2019 EarthXR and GIFF Epicentro began a partnership to collaborate and share innovative XR from both festivals across the US and Mexico border.

DREAM OF THE JAGUAR’S DAUGHTER Duration 8 min. Dreams of the Jaguar’s Daughter is a surreal VR documentary where Achik’, the spirit of a young Maya immigrant, guides the viewer through her dreams and memories of her arduous journey north. Tribeca Film Institute • jaguarsdaughtervr.com

DIR Alfredo Salazar-Caro

EVEREST VR Duration 10 min.

Only 175 people have ever stood on Earth’s highest point without the use of bottled oxygen; more people have been into space. While Sherpa Tenji has already summited Everest without the use of bottled oxygen before, would he have what it takes to do it again? Follow him as he climbs higher and higher into the Death Zone, an area that contains so little oxygen that his body cannot survive for long. everestvirtualreality.com

DIR Jon Griffith

PLANET INFINITY Duration 7 min.

PLANET ∞ is an organic tale in Virtual Reality. Barberousse Films, ARTE & AWKEYE • setomomoko.org/planetinfini

DIR Momoko Seto

360 Labs

360 Labs is a production company specializing in 360° immersive panoramic photography and video based out of Portland, Oregon. Their goal is to create meaningful and memorable experiences for virtual reality, desktop and mobile applications. 360labs.net

“AS IT IS” GRAND CANYON INTERACTIVE EXPLORER

Duration 17-19 min.

As it is takes you into the Grand Canyon to see it as too few do, from the bottom up. Take interactive “side hikes” off the main story to immerse yourself entirely into history, geology, river trips, and the many threats facing America’s “outdoor cathedral.” With over an hour of additional content & built for 6DoF interaction, we expand on the story in a new branching narrative format for interactive feature films.

360 Labs

DIR Thomas Hayden

CATARACT CANYON Duration 4.5 min.

COMING TO DALLAS, TX | SUMMER 2020

Teleport to the heart of wildlife with impossible proximity.

To learn about our new immersive space, visit EarthxFilm.org.

Cataract Canyon is a 100-mile long chasm in the heart of Canyonlands National Park, and home to the wildest section of the Colorado River with HUGE class V whitewater rapids. The area offers some of the most beautiful scenery along serene stretches of flat water where you can calmly soak it all in. This 4-day river trip with Western River Expeditions is a must-have experience for hikers, campers, thrillseekers, and those just looking to relax.

360 Labs

DIR Matt Rowell

Voices and Colors of the Earth

Indigenous Climate Action Showcase

Voices and Colors of the Earth presents interactive media exhibits featuring indigenous artists and leaders. They highlight the crucial role of threatened indigenous communities that protect the world’s greatest biodiversity. Learn ways to support and empower communities as they fight climate change by protecting their land, culture, and rights.

BLINK TEST Duration 1 min.

This unique AR-Human interface builds awareness about disappearing indigenous cultures around the world. The average human eye blinks every 10-15 seconds. Warning us that if we blink, they’ll be gone and so will the world’s cultural diversity. Created to engage people with the life’s work of legendary photographer Jimmy Nelson, who traveled to the farthest corners of the world, as he documents the culture and communities of over 36 isolated indigenous tribes. jimmynelson.com

DIR Jimmy Nelson

NATIVE LAND INTERACTIVE MAP Duration User Determined

Native Land began in 2015 as a resource for North Americans to find out more about Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages. The project has grown over the years to encompass nations beyond North America and is now a fledgling nonprofit with an Indigenous-majority Board of Directors. The project questions Western methods of mapping, encourages input and corrections from communities, and attempts to open a door for further and more in-depth education about Indigenous ways of knowing.

Native Land Digital • native-land.ca

CREATOR Victor G. Temprano

SACRED COCA Duration 8 min.

Sacred Coca a VR cinematographic immersive documentary, will take the viewer in an expanded sound and visual journey into the territory of the Jaguar Shamans of Yurupari, Yurupari of the Piraparaná River, Northwest, Amazon, and Colombia. An opportunity to witness how people keep alive a 14,000-year-old tradition that involves an intimate relationship with the Coca plant.

4Direcciones Audiovisual, DEEP Canad, New Media Fund DIR Diana Rico, Richard Decalliet

UNCEDED TERRITORIES Duration 7 min.

Unceded Territories is a provocative interactive VR experience that deals with climate change and indigenous civil rights. The VR brings audiences into a world formed of indigenous artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s iconic work, engaging viewers in an interactive landscape grappling with colonialism, climate change, and indigenous civil rights. Music by A Tribe Called Red. uncededterritories.ca

CREATORS Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Paisley Smith

YAWARANI Duration 5 min.

Yawarani is a VR 180° film created in collaboration with the indigenous community in Yawarani, deep in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. To preserve their sacred culture and the wisdom of their elders, the community set out to immortalize their culture in film and VR. They create documentaries to educate their youth as well as broadcast their beautiful, sustainable lifestyle to the outside world. danielbury.com

DIR Daniel Bury

Interactive Installations

Get active, get involved & be part of the change. Explore & share your passions through, augmented, mixed and virtual realities, selfie stations, and even an exercise station.

EARTHSONGS | MAGIC LEAP Duration 10 min.

EarthSongs is a celebration of wild soundscapes that uses the affordances of spatial computing and immersive technology to enthrall, enlighten and inspire a personal connection with nature in a new and intuitive way while gently encouraging players to consider our disconnection with the natural world. Bramble Media Ltd • bramblemedia.co.uk

DIR Mitch Turnbull

REEF TO RAINFOREST Duration User Determined

Reef to Rainforest is a cinematic, 6DoF conservation training simulator that addresses the effects of climate change through a series of interactives. The objective is to provide cutting-edge training tools to those on the front lines of the climate crisis while educating and inspiring the next generation of environmental stewards. Phase one of this Virtual Reality Conservation Training Simulator (VRCTS) targets three proven activities across three distinct environments: coral reef restoration, mangrove restoration, and afforestation.

Jiva VR, Reef Explorer Fiji • jivavr.com

DIR Steve Engman, Jay Henningfeld

SDG BUTTERFLY EFFECT

Duration 3 min.

Through Augmented Reality, transform into a beautiful butterfly, and make your individual commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals visible. Share your video on social media to inspire others to join you, creating a butterfly effect for accelerated action. United Nations SDG Action Campaign • sdgbutterflyeffect.org

STEP INTO A BRIGHTER FUTURE (CLIMATE CHANGERS)

Duration 6 min.

Step Into A Brighter Future uses the latest VR tech to bring some much-needed positivity into climate development conversations to inspire viewers with immersive stories of individuals and organizations innovating for a better future. Housed within an interactive VR hub that embraces the UN’s SDG design, this collection gives audiences agency to browse, explore, and dive into the worlds of people who are creating a positive impact on their communities. You’ll leave feeling inspired to take action.

Surround Vision, SDG Action Campaign, Unity for Humanity surroundvision.co.uk | sdgactioncampaign.org | unity.com/humanity

DIR Mary Matheson

The Virtual Wild Ocean Selfie Station

Duration User Determined

The Virtual Wild invites visitors to immerse themselves in selfie stations consisting of a photo booth backdrop, custom animated projectionmapping, and custom laser cut props. Enter a jungle scene full of wild plants and animals or dive underwater into a seascape filled with exotic ocean life. Here visitors are encouraged to take photos and share them on social media using specified hashtags to spread environmental awareness.

The Virtual Wild • thevirtualwild.com

DIR Jay Rutherford

WALK WITH ANIMALS World Premiere Duration 5 min.

Walk With Animals invites festival-goers on a magical trek with lifesize augmented reality animals. Social and fun, this experience for all ages promotes wellness for people and animals, educates about animal migration, and raises funds collectively for the protection of wildlife, habitats, and ecosystems.

Glowbox • kristinlucas.studio

DIR Kristin Lucas

Immersive Installations

Immerse yourself in nature through a collection of augmented and immersive art installations, interactive films, projections, and sonic journeys.

LOST CITIES Duration 20 min.

Lost Cities is an interactive film that reveals the incredible hidden world of corals. With its immersive design, expressive soundscape, and non-linear narrative, it pushes the boundaries of the traditional nature documentary and turns it into a participatory experience. As we explore what lies beneath the surface on our own unique journey, Lost Cities brings to light the surprising way the lives of corals are interwoven with our own.

Caravan Lab Productions, Belle & Wissell Co. • lostcities.org

DIR Marita Davison, Jennifer Moslemi

OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND|GOOGLE EARTH +

UNDERWATER EARTH IMMERSIVE EXHIBIT US Premiere

Duration User Determined

Wildlife photographer Christophe Bailhache exhibits for the first time a selection of his most spectacular immersive and interactive images taken around the planet. Through QR codes, the visitor dives in full 360° into iconic, remote, and exclusive locations. Underwater Earth has created the largest virtual diving platforms in partnership with Google. Declared amongst the top new scientific discoveries, the SVII camera will be exclusively on display, together with VR experiences narrated by Sylvia Earle.

Underwater Earth, Seaview 360, ITRAMAS underwater.earth | Itramas.com

DIR Sophie Ansel, Christophe Bailhache, Lorna Perry

PX.LAB | MIXED PROJECTIONS Duration User Determined px.lab is a mixed reality studio focused on large-scale new media productions. They specialize in performative technologies including projection mapping, interactive audio-visual installations, and AR/VR experiences. pxlab.studio, @px.lab

DIR Eric Trich & Taylor Cleveland

SWEET TOOTH HOTEL’S INTANGIBLE

Duration User Determined

Sweet Tooth Hotel is an experimental art venue creating immersive and interactive experiences. Since 2018, the Dallas venue has become a center for creativity. They offer a space showing unique curated art installations, giving creatives the platform to reach thousands weekly. Their fourth installation, Intangible will showcase a colorfully immersive environment made entirely of fiber, exploding with vibrancy, showcasing an all-female lineup of some of the top fiber artists from around the US. sweettoothhotel.com

CREATOR Jencey Keeton

THE OUTLAW OCEAN MUSIC PROJECT Duration Varies

Musicians and journalists are both storytellers; one uses sounds, the other leverages words. The Outlaw Ocean Music Project is a first-ofits-kind collaboration of such creators. In combining their mediums, these narrators have conveyed emotion and a sense of place in an enthralling new way. The result is a captivating body of music based on Ian Urbina’s New York Times best-selling book The Outlaw Ocean which chronicles a lawless realm that few of us realized existed. The Outlaw Ocean, NYTimes outlawocean.com | outlawoceanmusic.com

DIR Ian Urbina

THE WILD IMMERSION ENDORSED BY JANE GOODALL

World Tour Duration 10 min.

The Wild Immersion produces breathtaking 3D experiences that plunge spectators into nature 360° action films. Experience the all too real feeling of being in the middle of the wilderness, discovering mind-blowing real-life situations. Cross 5 continents to explore flora and fauna across the world. Go all around the planet: hot and cold lands, jungle, savannah, and oceans to see the animals as you have never seen them before.

Jane Goodall Institute • wildimmersion.io | janegoodall.org

DIR Adrien Moisson, Raphael Aupy

YOU ARE ME AND I AM YOU | THE STORY OF CARMEN CUMBA Preview trailer for feature film in production

Duration 2.5 min.

Carmen spent years studying the ways of the Partera’s (midwives) and Yachak’s (shamen) learning about plant medicine. Through curiosity, stubbornness, tireless dedication, and hard work, she now has one of the largest organic, medicinal plant gardens in the Andes. It serves as her pharmacy, where she, much like a pharmacist, expertly gathers all the right ingredients straight out of the ground creating medicine to treat her patients and turning no one away.

Little Village Big Mountain • littlevillagebigmountain.com/youareme

DIR Melissa Kirkendall

BBC Earth

Celebrating nature, science, space, and the human race, BBC Earth brings you face to face with heart-pounding action, mind-blowing ideas, and the sheer wonder of being part of this amazing planet we call home.

ATTENBOROUGH AND THE GIANT DINOSAUR Duration 4 min.

Sir David Attenborough tells the story of the discovery and reconstruction in Argentina of the world’s largest-known dinosaur, a brand new species of titanosaur.

BBC Natural History Unit, Hello Charlie • bbc.com

DIR Sam Hume and Jason Mullings

EARTH FROM SPACE Duration 6 min. Get closer than ever to a total solar eclipse and observe it from all possible angles in this stunning virtual reality video. bbc.co.uk | sentintospace.com

PROD BBC Earth

OUR BLUE PLANET 360 3D - MEXICO Duration 9 min. What’s it like to dive alongside ocean giants? Adventure under the waves with marine biologist Erick Higuera and find yourself face to face with some of our oceans’ most curious and majestic creatures. ourblueplanet.bbcearth.com

PROD BBC Earth

OUR BLUE PLANET 360 3D - CANADA Duration 6 min. Canada’s green seas are home to some surprising creatures. From fascinating wolf eels to the largest known octopus in our oceans. Take a deep breath and join diver Tiare Boyes on an adventure into an underwater forest. Use your headset to watch this video in 3D Virtual Reality. ourblueplanet.bbcearth.com

PROD BBC Earth

SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET Duration 15 min.

Sir David Attenborough reveals the extraordinary wildlife stories and unseen wilderness of our seven unique continents with an environmental message. bbcearth.com

PROD BBC Earth

AJ Contrast

Through character-driven, innovative virtual reality, and 360° documentaries, Contrast VR explores some of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time.

FROM WASTE TO TASTE Duration 7 min.

Join Brazilians as they fight to end food waste by rescuing food that would have otherwise been thrown out, teaching future generations about the importance of food waste management.

AJ Contrast, Sete Leguas Films

DIR Maria Fernanda Lauret

SAVING KENYA’S FORESTS Duration 2 min.

This seven-year-old is trying to save Kenya’s forests by planting one tree at a time. AJ Contrast

THE CURSE OF PALM OIL Duration 7 min.

Travel to the rainforests in Malaysia to see how the indigenous Orang Asli people are coping with deforestation caused to make way for oil palm trees, which produce the most used vegetable oil in the world.

AJ Contrast, 101 East

DIR Viktorija Mickute

THE DISAPPEARING OASIS Duration 6 min.

Journey to the frontlines between a Moroccan oasis and the encroaching Sahara to explore the effects of desertification that threaten the livelihood of more than two million people living in the oases of Morocco.

AJ Contrast, EFI, The Lookout Station

DIR Viktorija Mickute

THE OIL IN OUR CREEKS Duration 8 min.

Follow Lessi Phillips through her village in Nigeria, to the farm and into the creeks and classrooms as she shows us both the environmental devastation caused by the 2008 Shell oil spill and the youth who provide her community with a sense of hope. AJ Contrast

DIR Zahra Rasool

WINTER, LEAVE Duration 7 min.

In North Macedonia’s capital Skopje, three residents struggle to stay warm – and healthy – inside their homes, amid deadly winters and extremely polluted air. AJ Contrast, Habitat for Humanity

DIR Viktorija Mickute

National Geographic VR

See the Earth’s most extraordinary places like never before on virtual reality explorations led by world-renowned National Geographic Explorers.

SAVING OUR ISLAND: YOUTH FROM THE PACIFIC Duration 7 min.

Climate change is having a dramatic impact on our world, and no region is more vulnerable than the fragile, beautiful Pacific islands. These small island states are threatened by more frequent and more intense natural disasters as well as rising sea-levels. United Nations

Secretary-General António Guterres traveled to the islands of Fiji, Vanuatu, and Tuvalu to meet young climate activists who are showing courage, tenacity, and vision in rallying the world to action.

The United Nations

DIR Dajo Brinkman

SPACE SAFARI Duration 5 min.

We can’t send all of Earth’s citizens into space, but with 360° VR Space Safari, we can get you as close as possible. Ørsted has teamed up with American and European astronauts to send you on a virtual space mission. We believe that if more people could see the world as astronauts do, it would create a greater sense of responsibility for our shared home and speed up green action.

Ørsted, KhoraVR • orsted.com/en/explore/space-safari

DIR Niels Rahr, Peter Fisher

2020