Online only workshop of the 4th Biennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality

For the first time anywhere in the world a workshop was held entirely in virtual mode / Participating were the three projects selected for the 4^th edition of the Biennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality

The workshop of the 4^thBiennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality, which ended on Friday March 6^th, was held entirely in virtual mode, on a specialized platform and consistent with the language of the projects involved.

This is the first time anywhere in the world that a complete workshop, organized over the course of several days, performed all of its work in virtual mode.

Held from Tuesday March 3^rd to Friday March 6^th, the virtual workshop remotely connected the staff of the Biennale College – Cinema with the three teams selected from Germany, Great Britain and Italy. One of the three projects will be presented in the Venice Virtual Reality section of the 77^th Venice International Film Festival (2 – 12 September), directed by Alberto Barbera.

The workshop, which engaged the three teams in the development of their production projects, took place in a virtual environment designed by the VRROOM platform on the VR Chat application. This channel provided a virtual replica of the entire workshop situation, creating avatars that represented the participants in different classrooms and in a common space, which served as the venue for discussions, film and video screenings, and 360° immersive Virtual Reality experiences proposed by the teams and the staff of Biennale College Cinema.

The three projects selected for this edition of the Biennale College Cinema VR are:

• THE PUB (UK)

Director: Duane Hopkins | Producer: Samm Haillay

• TOUCHED

Directors: Emilia Ondriasova (Slovakia), Sarah Lisa Vogl (Germany) | Producer: Sarah Lisa Vogl.

• VAJONT (Italy)

Director: Iolanda Di Bonaventura | Producer: Saverio Trapasso