FIVARS Awards Winners – All Years

Immersive Experience Awards Winners

2015

PEOPLE’S CHOICE:

  • Best Interactive Experience: Apollo 11
  • Best Immersive Video: SONAR

2016

PEOPLE’S CHOICE:

  • Best Interactive Experience: Pearl (Patrick Osborne)
  • Best Immersive Video: Help (Justin Lin)

JURIED:

  • Grand Jury Award: Real (Connor Hair and Alex Meader)

2017

PEOPLE’S CHOICE:

  • Best Interactive: Alteration
  • est Immersive (Passive): Guardian of the Guge Kingdom

JURIED:

  • Impact Award: Priya’s Shakti / Priya’s Mirror (Dan Goldman)
  • Grand Jury Prize: Manifest 99

2018

PEOPLE’S CHOICE:

  • Best Interactive: Museum of Symmetry (Paloma Dawkins)
  • Best Immersive (Passive): Going Home (David Beier)

JURIED:

  • Impact Award: The Hidden (Annie Lukowski, BJ Schwartz)
  • Grand Jury Prize: Battlescar (Nico Casavecchia, Martin Allais)

2019

PEOPLE’S CHOICE:

  • Best Interactive: After Dan Graham (David Han/Friend Generator)
  • Best Immersive (Passive): 2nd Step (Joerg Courtial)

JURIED:

  • Technical Achievement: tx-reverse
  • Excellence in Experience Design: Battlescar (Nico Casavecchia, Martin Allais)
  • Excellence in Sound Design: Unheard (Zhechuan Zhang)
  • Excellence in Visual Design: Ex Anima (Pierre Zandrowicz)
  • Impact Award: State Power (Jeff Stanzler)
  • Grand Jury Prize: The Industry (Mirka Duijn)

2020

PEOPLE’S CHOICE:

  • Best Interactive: Gravity VR (Fabito Rychter, Amir Admoni)
  • Best Immersive (Passive): Warsaw Rising (Tomasz Dobosz)

JURIED:

  • Technical Achievement: The Cosmic Laughter of Cucci Binaca (Jonathan Sims)
  • Excellence in Experience Design: Sleeping Eyes (Sojung Bahng, Sungeun Lee)
  • Excellence in Sound Design: Symphony of Noise VR (Michaela Pnacekova)
  • Excellence in Visual Design: Hominidae (Brian Andrews)
  • Impact Award: Indirect Actions (Maranatha Hay)
  • Grand Jury Prize: Minimum Mass (Raqi Syed, Areito Echevarria)

FIVARS in FEB 2021

PEOPLE’S CHOICE:

  • Best Interactive: CLAWS (Created by Evan Neiden & Directed by John Ertman)
  • Best Immersive (Passive): Inside COVID 19 – (Gary Yost, Adam Loften)

FIVARS in FALL 2021

PEOPLE’S CHOICE:

  • Best Interactive: Samsara (Director: Hsin-Chien Huang)
  • Best Immersive (Passive): The Invasion of Normandy Omaha Beach (Director: Uli Futschik)

JURIED:

  • Technical Achievement: Dark Threads (Director: Jonathon Corbiere)
  • Excellence in Experience Design: Andy’s World (Director: Liquan Liu)
  • Excellence in Sound Design: Symphony (Director: Igor Cortadellas)
  • Excellence in Visual Design: Mind VR Exploration (Director: Deng Zuyun)
  • Outstanding Performance: Lori Kovachevich, Lena’s Journey (Director: Wes Evans)
  • Impact Award: Om Devi: Sheroes Revolution (Director: Claudio Casale)
  • Grand Jury Prize: Montegelato (Director: Davide Rapp)