_A first-person VR adventure game
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_Synopsis
A space thriller meets family drama, branching narrative XR game.
The year is 2049 and you are Natalie Ramirez, a member of a mission to Mars that's so fruitless, it's deemed as the end of space exploration. Shockingly, days before your scheduled return to Earth, you discover a reservoir of clean subsurface water that resurrects your mission.
But when you tell your daughter you have to stay on Mars, indefinitely, she goes into hiding, leaving a trail of alarming clues. With your dream and your family pulling you in opposite directions, which path will you choose?
_Technical sheet
Format: VR
Running time: 3h
Status: In production
Year: 2026
Version: English
Authors/Directors: Nir SA'AR, Ido MIZRAHY
Producers: François LE GALL, Marion GUTH, Nimrod SHANIT, Nir SA'AR, Ido MIZRAHY
Production company: a_BAHN (LU), BLIMEY (CA), BREEZY (ISR)
With the support of: Film Fund Luxembourg (LU), CMF (CA), Ontario Creates (CA), Sheridan Screen Industries Research and Training Centre (CA), Makor Film Fund (ISR), Israel Arts Council (ISR), Jerusalem Film Fund (ISR)
Studios: Velvet Flare (LU), Blimey (CA)
Nir SA'AR
Film director
Veteran filmmaker and producer, Saar has vast experience in film production and immersive technologies. He’s produced and created content for KESHET Broadcast, Channel 10, YES Productions, Channel 22 and Globus group United and is a recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation in Directing and Cinematography award, the Rabinovich Foundation film grant, Israel Film Fund and Gesher Multicultural Film Fund among others.
Saar’s films have screened at Next Reel NYU, Busan Korea, Fribourg, Jerusalem international film fest among many others and his first short film Still Waters premiered as the official opening film of Venice International Film Critics' Week, 2012.
In 2015, Saar was selected to participate in Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School. In 2016, his groundbreaking VR narrative piece, Summertime, was selected to screen at Festival de Cannes’ “Future of cinema” section.
The Saar-produced short documentary The most beautiful woman received the Student Academy Award for best Foreign Short Documentary.
Saar has recently completed Love it was not, a feature-length documentary, co-produced with YES DOCU in Israel and ORF in Austria, scheduled to premiere in May, 2020.
Veteran filmmaker and producer, Saar has vast experience in film production and immersive technologies. He’s produced and created content for KESHET Broadcast, Channel 10, YES Productions, Channel 22 and Globus group United and is a recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation in Directing and Cinematography award, the Rabinovich Foundation film grant, Israel Film Fund and Gesher Multicultural Film Fund among others.
Saar’s films have screened at Next Reel NYU, Busan Korea, Fribourg, Jerusalem international film fest among many others and his first short film Still Waters premiered as the official opening film of Venice International Film Critics' Week, 2012.
In 2015, Saar was selected to participate in Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School. In 2016, his groundbreaking VR narrative piece, Summertime, was selected to screen at Festival de Cannes’ “Future of cinema” section.
The Saar-produced short documentary The most beautiful woman received the Student Academy Award for best Foreign Short Documentary.
Saar has recently completed Love it was not, a feature-length documentary, co-produced with YES DOCU in Israel and ORF in Austria, scheduled to premiere in May, 2020.
Mizrahy’s directorial debut, the award-winning feature narrative, Things That Hang From Trees (2007) had its world premiere at SXSW and New Directors / New Films. It was later selected to be part of MOMA’s permanent collection and released nation-wide.
Mizrahy was a co-director and co-writer on Beyoncé: Year of 4, a documentary about the pop singer, which debuted on MTV and VH1. It had since been viewed more than 17 million times on YouTube and VEVO.
Mizrahy’s first feature-length documentary, the critically acclaimed Patrolman P, premiered at DOC NYC and had its broadcast premiere on DirecTV in 2014. His follow up, award winning documentary, GORED, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2015 and released by Netflix in the US, Canada, Latin America, UK, Ireland and Spain in the spring of 2016. Sundance International broadcast GORED in Europe, Asia and the Middle East in the fall of 2016. Mizrahy is also an executive producer on a scripted series based on Patrolman P, which was recently acquired by A&E Studios.
Ido MIZRAHY
Film director
Mizrahy’s directorial debut, the award-winning feature narrative, Things That Hang From Trees (2007) had its world premiere at SXSW and New Directors / New Films. It was later selected to be part of MOMA’s permanent collection and released nation-wide.
Mizrahy was a co-director and co-writer on Beyoncé: Year of 4, a documentary about the pop singer, which debuted on MTV and VH1. It had since been viewed more than 17 million times on YouTube and VEVO.
Mizrahy’s first feature-length documentary, the critically acclaimed Patrolman P, premiered at DOC NYC and had its broadcast premiere on DirecTV in 2014. His follow up, award winning documentary, GORED, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2015 and released by Netflix in the US, Canada, Latin America, UK, Ireland and Spain in the spring of 2016. Sundance International broadcast GORED in Europe, Asia and the Middle East in the fall of 2016. Mizrahy is also an executive producer on a scripted series based on Patrolman P, which was recently acquired by A&E Studios.
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