Filmmaker and artist Lynette Wallworth, creator of the Emmy Award-winning VR work 'Collisions' and 'Awavena', is one of the recipients of the World Economic Forum 2020 Crystal Award.
Lynette Wallworth, Jason Blum, Ebs Burnough and Lisa-Michele Church will join the Sundance Institute’s board of trustees, where they will work closely with president/Founder Robert Redford, chair Pat Mitchell and executive director Keri Putnam.
Director Maya Newell's feature documentary 'In My Blood It Runs' will have its world premiere in competition at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
AACTA is calling for recommendations for the Byron Kennedy Award which celebrates outstanding creative enterprise in the screen industry.
Jennifer Kent’s thriller 'The Nightingale' will have its world Premiere in competition at the 75th Venice International Film Festival.
The Adelaide Film Festival is inviting Australian and international submissions for features, shorts and VR works – drama, documentary, hybrid, experimental and animation – for the 2018 festival which runs October 10 - 21.
Two Australian projects, 'Summation of Force' and Lynette Wallworth's 'Awavena', have been selected for the 2018 Sundance Film Festival as part of the New Frontier program, which focuses on experimental work in VR, AR, mixed reality (MR) and AI.
Wallworth and 'Collisions' producer Nicole Newnham have spent the last twelve months touring the work, during which they engaged with several communities about the possibilities of VR to transport viewers into their world.