2024 Cannes Film Festival: Immersive Program Features Cate Blanchett, Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and More
The 77th Festival de Cannes has announced eight projects as a part of the Immersive Competition including collective location-based virtual reality and mixed reality experiences, and projection mapping and holographic works. These carefully selected immersive works showcase the cutting edge of this new era in storytelling, challenging convention, embracing new technologies, and celebrate new artists as well as old.
The program features the voice work of Academy Award winners Cate Blanchett and Jessica Chastain, Academy Award nominee Colin Farrell, Tahir Rahim, Charithra Chandran, Millie Bobby Brown, singer Patti Smith and more.
Part of the Immersive Selection, six non-competitive works will be featured at the exhibition exploring the evolution of the medium and drawing parallels between virtual reality, virtual production, cinema and collective storytelling.
The 77th Cannes Film Festival runs from May 15-25, 2024. See official lineup of main competition and out of competition films, Un Certain Regard and more here.
Immersive Competition
En Amour — Claire Bardainne, Adrien Mondot, Laurent Bardainne
Casting: Claire Bardainne (voice over), November Ultra (singing voice)
Produced by: Adrien M & Claire B, Ekleroshock records
Evolver — Barnaby Steel, Ersin Han Ersin, Robin McNicholas
Casting: Cate Blanchett (voice)
Produced by: Dirty Films, Marshmallow Laser Feast, Atlas V, Pressman Film, Orange, Bia-Echo Foundation; Executive Produced by: Coco Francini, Cate Blanchett, Andrew Upton
Human Violins: Prelude — Ioana Mischie
Casting: Cabiria Morgenstern (English Voice)
Produced by: Storyscapes, Da Prod, Studioset
Maya: The Birth of a Superhero — Poulomi Basu, CJ Clarke
Casting: Indira Varma, Kathy Packianathan (French voices), Indira Varma, Charithra Chandran (English voices), Florrie Antoniou (voices)
Produced by: Just Another Production Company, Floréal, Meta VR for Good, France Télévisions, Francetv Storylab, Meta
Colored — Tania de Montaigne, Stéphane Foenkinos, Pierre-Alain Giraud
Casting: Tania de Montaigne, Rebecca Naluyange, Keril Daniel Elombe, Véronique Bailey, Jona Kraft, Sergei Laev, Mbongiseni Kunene, Craig Thomas Crawford, John Harve Jackson, Gwei Lun-Mei (Mandarin voice), Susanna Dimitri (Italian voice)
Produced by: Novaya, Flash Forward Entertainment, Centre Pompidou
Telos I — Dorotea Saykaly, Emil Dam Seidel
Casting: Dorotea Saykaly
Produced by: Dorotea Saykaly, Emil Dam Seidel
The Roaming — Mathieu Pradat
Casting: Axel Beaumont, Pierre Tallaron, Tony Sanial, Mila Pousséo, Chloé Froget, Anne Klein, Marianne Bourg
Produced by: La prairie productions, Wild Fang Films, Normal Studio, Small Creative
Traversing the Mist — Tung-Yen Chou
Casting: Jing-Yan Lin
Produced by: Very Theatre
Immersive Selection (non-competitive)
Battlescar — Martin Allais, Nico Casavecchia
Casting: Dawson (English voice), Jehnny Beth (French voice), Lo Rivera (German voice)
Produced by: Atlas V, Albyon, 1STAveMachine, ARTE France, Oculus, Ryot
Emperor — Marion Burger, Ilan J. Cohen
Casting: Olivia Cooke (English voice), Vimala Pons (French voice)
Produced by: Atlas V, Reynard Films, France Télévisions
Gloomy Eyes — Fernando Maldonado, Jorge Tereso
Casting: Tahar Rahim (French voice), Colin Farrell (English voice), Max Riemelt (German voice), Jorge Drexler (Spanish voice), Jam Hsiao (Mandarin voice) Produced by: Atlas V, 3dar, ARTE France, HTC, Ryot
Missing Pictures: Naomi Kawase — Clément Deneux
Casting: Naomi Kawase
Produced by: Atlas V, ARTE France, BBC, PTS, Serendipity Films, Wild Fang Films, Giioii
Notes on Blindness — Arnaud Colinart, Amaury La Burthe, Peter Middleton, James Spinney
Casting: John Hull (English version), Lambert Wilson (French version)
Produced by: Ex Nihilo, ARTE France, Archer’s Mark, Novelab
Spheres — Eliza McNitt
Casting: Jessica Chastain, Millie Bobby Brown, Patti Smith
Produced by: Protozoa Pictures, City Lights, Crime of Curiosity, Atlas V
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