For the fourth year, Raindance Film Festival continues to champion the creators who push the artistic boundaries in the mediums of Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. The Raindance Immersive Stories Awards celebrate the creativity, ingenuity, and artistry expressed in immersive storytelling in the past year. Join us at the Awards ceremony, and meet the new talents who are pushing past the boundaries of reality.

SCHEDULE

• 6pm-6:30pm: Red carpet arrivals
• 6:30pm-7:30pm: Awards ceremony

This year the Festival will showcase 30 immersive experiences, nominated for Raindance Immersive Stories Awards that recognise creative excellence and technical achievement across 10 categories.

NOMINATIONS:

BEST IMMERSIVE GAME

• Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time
• No Man's Sky: Beyond
• The Curious Tale Of The Stolen Pets
• The Infinite Hotel

BEST INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE EXPERIENCE

• A Box In The Desert
• INORI
• Ray Sparks
• The Line

BEST CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE

• Afterlife
• Butterfly Dance
• Only The Mountain Remains
• Operation Othello: I Am Not What I Am

BEST DOCUMENTARY EXPERIENCE

• Ayahuasca: Kosmik Journey
• Memoria: Stories Of La Garma
• Rise Of Animals With David Attenborough
• The Holy City

BEST ANIMATED EXPERIENCE

• Battlescar – The Sequel
• Glimpse (Preview)
• Gloomy Eyes
• Heart Of Darkness

ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT

• Ayahuasca: Kosmik Journey
• Battlescar – The Sequel
• Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time
• Glimpse (Preview)
• Gloomy Eyes
• Heart Of Darkness

AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT

• Battlescar – The Sequel
• Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time
• Glimpse (Preview)
• Gloomy Eyes
• INORI
• Operation Othello: I Am Not What I Am

BRITISH AWARD: BEST UK EXPERIENCE

• Cosmos Within Us
• Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time
• Glimpse (Preview)
• Rise Of Animals With David Attenborough

DISCOVERY AWARD: BEST DEBUT EXPERIENCE

• Afterlife
• Anonymous
• Playing God
• See, Saw – Seen

The winners will be selected by an international panel of jury members comprised of luminaries such as Vicki Dobbs Beck, executive in charge of ILMxLAB; Alice Taylor, Vice President, StudioLAB at THE WALT DISNEY STUDIOS; Curtis Hickman, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at THE VOID, and many more.

The key art for this year’s Raindance Immersive strand was created in Virtual Reality using Tiltbrush illustration tool by the award-winning artist Sutu a.k.a. Stuart Campbell, the creator of VR documentaries such as Inside Manus for SBS, Mind at War for RYOT Films, The Battle of Hamel for the Australian War Memorial and Future Dreaming for NITV. He has also been commissioned by Marvel, Google and Disney to create VR art for properties such as Doctor Strange and Ready Player One.