Games & Digitales
2 MBB-funded VR projects at the Venice Film Festival
PRESS RELEASE
Berlin / Potsdam / Venice – MBB goes Venice VR! 2 MBB-funded VR experiences are being screened in the official competition of the Virtual Reality Programme at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
In the Venice Immersive section, the Biennale is presenting international virtual reality projects for the 7th time, among them also “From the Main Square”, a graduation project of the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg, and the German-Czech co-production “Tmání”, which the Berlin developers of NowHere Media helped to realise:
Venice Immersive
FROM THE MAIN SQUARE (Vom Hauptplatz)
Director: Pedro Harres
Production Company: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Venice Immersive
TMÁNÍ (Darkening)
Director: Ondřej Moravec
Production Company: NowHere Media
Helge Jürgens, CEO New Media Funding, Medienboard: “Virtual reality projects ‘made in Berlin-Brandenburg’ are being presented in Venice! We congratulate the developers of the two MBB-funded experiences on their invitation to the Lido and are looking forward to celebrating this success at our joint event with the VRBB – the ‘Berlin-Brandenburg Happy Hour’. We wish the teams, the audience, and all film and VR enthusiasts a successful Festival. Let’s go virtual!”
The Biennale Cinema, the 79th Venice International Film Festival, will take place August 31st to September 10th, 2022.