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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. Chicago filmmaker Michael Glover Smith came on to the DIF podcast to chat about his career and specially his excellent film Handle with Care that was an Official Selection: Short Film …
2025 Official Selection: Immersive Short – AR/VR/MR/360 Rui Barbosa is a historic Brazilian who lived in the later 19th to the 20th century. Famous for being an abolitionist, jurist and politician, he is waiting for his wife to get dressed to go to a party. While he waits, help him fix a historic scanned car …
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 …
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 …
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 …