Jelly is an 8 year old girl who always seems to find trouble, or perhaps trouble finds her. Jelly has…
Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories
October 15th-17th In-Person (Los Angeles) – October 22nd – November 2nd 2021 (Online)
A One-of-a-Kind World-Class Hybrid Event
~ Huffington Post
Learn more about the showcase artists – must be seen with your own eyes!
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OFFICIAL FALL SELECTIONS 2021
Katya: Be Your Own Dentist
Got a molar that’s been killing you? Cavities? Gingivitis? Find a spot on the floor, sit down, and RELAX. You…
Song in the Smoke
Explore a beautiful, yet deadly virtual world. Use your bare hands to craft weapons and tools, make clothes, and brew…
Mementorium
Mementorium is a heartfelt story about identity and belonging told through a branching narrative in virtual reality. Uncover memories of…
Mind VR Exploration
Explore Chinese classical architectures, implements, poems in this beautiful immersive experience.
Squingle
Squingle is the Goddess of the Squingle Universe. This psychedelic experience unfolds before you as you unlock puzzles creating an…
Barnstormers: Determined to Win
“Barnstormers: Determined to Win.” is an interactive VR experience set to the backdrop of the Negro Baseball League. The immersive…
Dark Threads
Dark Threads is an interactive VR science-fiction experience in which you play as Dominic Monaghan, an inventor with a scheme…
The Magic of Flight
The ‘Magic of Flight’ is an innovative, all web, thirty minutes immersive education experience in sixteen episodes centered on the…
Jordan Jones Dies in Space
Jordan Jones Dies in Space is a 1st person VR experience about a maintenance worker on an interstellar cruiser on…
MYRIAD – Where We Connect
MYRIAD is a project about animal migration in the Anthropocene and has crafted a highly artistic and poetic virtual reality…
Samsara
In the near future, the Earth environment is completely destroyed by the human race. We have to abandon it and…
NEWS
FIVARS 2021 Spotlight – The Residents – Inside A Circle Of Dreams
Interview with David Lawrence We couldn’t be more excited than to receive and debut the world premiere of The Resident’s…
FIVARS 2021 Spotlight – Mementorium
In Mementorium, the interactive narrative prompts the player to find alignment between their emotions and the narrator’s emotions and make choices about how to respond to instances of harm in the future. Mementorium features at the FIVARS in FALL Festival 2021.
PRESS
My lens into the 360 medium has been indelibly shaped by the curatorial vision of the major film festivals, which has had a very specific threshold for storytelling & form. It’s refreshing to see something distinctly different with Keram Malicki-Sanchez’s curation of FIVARS.
Kent Bye, Voices of VR
“Slowly but surely virtual reality (VR) movies and experiences are becoming just as important as VR videogames”
“FIVARS pushes the limits of Virtual Reality”
“Virtual Reality isn’t the stuff of fantasy any longer. Thanks to FIVARS, Canada’s first virtual reality film festival, this super-charged tech is destined to change how we experience on-screen storytelling.”
“Stellar works were exhibited, each pushing the form in novel ways.”
“Virtual reality has already changed film and gaming. Now it’s coming for theatre”
“Movies, video games, art — our vocabulary simply doesn’t do justice to the kind of sheer visceral experience offered by this new generation of virtual reality. The only way to really understand it is to experience it first-hand, when FIVARS in Toronto arrives…Here are some experiences that will turn VR skeptics into fanatics”
Watch the 2020 FIVARS Awards Ceremony!
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Submissions are closed for the season!
