Max Q

2025 Official Selection: Immersive Short – AR/VR/MR/360 Max Q is an animated 6DOF virtual reality film about a deep space survey team that finds their relationships pushed to the brink when they embark upon a dangerous search and rescue mission on an unexplored alien world. Director(s): Joel Benjamin Writer(s): Brad Riddell Producer(s): Joel Benjamin, Brad …

paSSive poWer

2025 Official Selection: Immersive Short – AR/VR/MR/360 A sonic visual 8K 4D 360 VR collaborative experience. Wind, Lasers, Chanting.. “paSSive poWer” aims at putting focus on the more subtle energies of human co-existence otherwise deemed as meekness. Or as filmmaker / artist JB ghuman JR has dubbed them, the “paSSive poWers.” Combining breathing / chanting …

545. Michael Glover Smith “Handle with Care”

Welcome back, Listeners! Chicago filmmaker Michael Glover Smith’s superb film Handle with Care was an Official Selection: Short Film – Drama at Sherman Oaks Film Festival 2024 and took home the Programmer’s Prize – Exceptional Filmmaking. I was thrilled to moderate Michael’s Q & A at the festival, and even more so, to dive back …

544. 4Qs with Donato De Luca

What are the 4Qs? (1) Three favorite films. (2) An underrated film. (3) An overrated film. (4) A lesser-known film people should seek out. On the last episode I throughly enjoyed chatting with Donato De Luca, who I learned actually goes by Joe! Joe and his team brought their short film “Grand Romantic Gestures” to …