Questi i vincitori dei quattro Premi in programma: Best VRE20 VR Film è andato a Passenger degli australiani Isobel Knowles e Van Sowerwine per l’originalità del soggetto e dell’uso combinato della tecnologia VR con la Stop Motion Animation, che rende il tema dell’emigrazione e del viaggio verso un nuovo paese un’opportunità di conoscenza e di condivisione. A decretare il premio una giuria internazionale composta da Yair Agmon, Jaehee Cho, Pierre Emmanuel Le Goff, Rafael Pavon, Kirsty van der Plas.

Il VRE20 Young Best VR Film, stabilito da una Giuria under 30 (tutti provenienti da Scuole Superiori e Università), è andato a Black Bag del cinese Qing Saho per l’originalità della storia, l’elevata qualità delle immagini e per l’uso ottimale delle opzioni della realtà virtuale nel distorcere le percezioni visive e uditive. 

Il Premio Rai Cinema Channel è stato assegnato all’italiano Girolamo da Schio per H.o.m. Per l’originalità e la giusta drammaticità con cui descrive a 360°, sotto forma di mise teatrale e con humor nero, una quotidianità amara e dimenticata che si svolge tra le mura strette e claustrofobiche di una struttura psichiatrica.

Infine, il Premio Best Interactive Experience 2020 è andato a Once upon a sea dell’israeliano Adam Levy. un viaggio straordinario e coinvolgente nella regione del Mar Morto, il luogo più basso della terra.

VRDAYS EUROPE 6 – LA NUOVA EDIZIONE HORIZONS
L’evento più coinvolgente del 2020
Quest’anno è tutto diverso.

VRDays Europe è una conferenza è una 3 giorni di conferenze e contenuti, la creatività e l’innovazione di realtà virtuale, aumentata e mista. La 2020 New Horizons Edition esplorerà come le tecnologie immersive plasmano il mondo di domani.

VRDays Europe, ora più che mai.

We are honored to have in our International Jury:

Jaehee Cho, game designer.  Founder & Creative Director di STITCHBRIDGE, director of VR projects.

Pierre Emmanuel Le Goff, director, he competed in VRE19 and he won the Rai Cinema Channel VR Award with Being an Astronaut. He is an expert of film production, art direction, television, storytelling, and feature films.  

Rafael PavonArtist, creator and producer of immersive works, he works with Studios such as Atlas, and on projects like the award-winning Gloomy Eyes, Atom and Fragments.

Yair Agmon, graduated from a yeshiva, he is working as a guide at Yad Vashem – the Holocaust Museum and Research Center. 

Kirsty van der Plas, Head of Production for VR Days Europe and also on the International Film Festival Rotterdam team.

Five young under 30 students from High Schools and Universities will be called to compose the VRE20 Young Jury.

It’s almost time for VRE – Virtual Reality Experience, the international festival entirely dedicated to immersive technologies, which will take place from the 16th to the 18th of October in a hybrid format that combines virtual, digital and physical spaces.

To allow living the experiences  with greater emotional and sensorial involvement we chose two exceptional places: the wonderful Villa Maraini, e uno degli spazi del Maxxi.  

In addition to the physical places there will be a digital part; in fact the 21 Film VR Competition will be available on the Veer VR Platform in a dedicated channel, Talks and Masterclasses will be hosted in theAula Magna of Unitelma Sapienza and broadcasted in streaming on the VRE 2020’s social channels, through the Stream Yard software. 

A major transformation for a cleaner world and a more sustainable future is in place.

We have chosen to be a part of this through some conscious choices: we decided to only use glass bottles and to avoid the consumption of paper. Thanks to the choice to be plastic free e paper-free, VRE expresses the clear intent to start a new path, the first step to a much more ambitious project to undertake in time.

The next editions will be the foundations to maintain and expand our effort in favour of an eco-friendly future.

We vow to arrange activities that will involve the new generations: with the intent to create a large network of knowledge, exchanges, reflections in which everyone will be able to be a fundamental and an irreplaceable hub of change.

Virtual Reality and sustainable development: this is the goal of the editorial and artistic choice of VRE20. aimed towards the maximum inclusion through the entirely free diffusion and promotion of the events. Community life, education, work, health, gender inequalities, sustainability and development are the big topics of the 2030 Agenda. Virtual Reality shows its great potential in simplifying learning, understanding and sharing of values that are at the base of these objectives and contributes to their achievement. Among these topics VRE chose to develop some of them with dedicated focuses and through films which are able to tell stories, to describe territories and to take on social issues like:women’s rights, the promotion of Cultural and environmental Heritage, the radical change of perspective forced by the lockdown. 

From the 16th to the 18th of October, these are the dates of the second edition of VRE – Virtual Reality Experience, the international festival dedicated to the world of immersive audiovisual (videos filmed at 360°) created to broadcast VR Cinema and to show to the public the role and employment of the Immersive Technologies (Extended Reality – XR) in different fields: from entertainment to medicine, from art to business and from cultural heritage to environmental sustainability. 

The festival has an even more digital role, in part because of the restrictions imposed by Covid-19, this year it will be mainly digital but will maintain a few locations for collateral events (Rome). The first sign of innovation comes from the creativity curated by Francesco Barbieri.