Accused #2

Accused #2

Documentary
Accused #2
Accused #2
Accused #2
Accused #2

Information

The story of the struggle against Apartheid is symbolised by one man: Nelson Mandela. He came to public notice during a historic trial in 1963 and 1964. Mandela would have been a hundred years old in 2018. He was not alone at the trial. Seven co accused (five Blacks, one White and an ethnic Indian) were sentenced with him to hard labour for life. All had faced the threat of hanging. Yet at the risk of their lives, they had chosen to turn their trial into a political indictment of the segregationist regime. Nelson Mandela gave a speech from the dock and was not cross-examined. So Walter Sisulu, the grey eminence of the movement, was the first co-defendant to take on the formidable prosecutor Percy Yutar. Sisulu, who had left school at the age of 14, started out at a serious disadvantage. Yet over the 5 days of the hearing, he ultimately succeeded in making his case in front of journalists from all over the world, as well as the diplomats attending the trial. Today, with 256 hours of audio recordings of the hearings (recently unearthed and restored by France’s Institut National de l’Audiovisuel), we can relive that battle and, through those remarkable resources, (re) discover the story of the ANC’s fight against Apartheid. The illustrations of artist Oerd Van Cuijlenborg plunge viewers into the Rivonia trial hearings. They find themselves in close proximity to the protagonists and totally immersed in the proceedings thanks to 360° virtual reality and spatialised sound.
International title
Accused #2
Release date
01/01/2019
Minimum Duration (mn)
15
URL
http://lucidrealities.studio/index.php/en/portfolio/accused-2/
Thematics
Black cultureDocumentarySocial issuesSociety / Political
Technology(ies) used
3DoF
Production company(ies)
LA GÉNÉRALE DE PRODUCTION
Country(ies)
France

Distribution Strategy

Device(s) compatibility
HTC ViveHTC Vive CosmosHTC Vive ProOculus GoOculus QuestOculus Quest 2Oculus RiftOculus Rift S
Number of user(s)
Single-user experience
Play area
Seated (360° chair)
Distribution strategy
History museums
Main Achievements (Prize, Selection, where the project has been already distributed)
SATIS Expo 360 Film Festival 2019 - Best Sound 360 Award Virtuality XR Awards 2019 - Best immersive documentary Animafest Zagreb 2019 - Best VR animation New Media Film Festival 2019 - Best Virtual Reality Sheffiled International Documentary Festival 2019 - Best Digital Narrative Award Nominee Festival National du Film d'Animation 2019 - Coup de coeur de l'Institut Français pour une oeuvre en VR International Contest for Educational Media - Japan Prize 2019 - Finalist 360 BCN Mercado Realidad Virtual 2019 - 3rd Prize Filmfest München Virtual Worlds Awards 2019 - Best Linear Experience New Images 2019 - Selection outside of competition Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Cinema 360 - Official Selection Flimgate Miam 2019 - Official Selection Electric Africa VR Festival 2019 - Official Selection Press Start 2019 - Official Selection Geneva International Film Festival 2019 - Official Selection The Portal 2019 - Official Selection MIFF 2019 - Official Selection Festival dei Popoli 2019 - Official Selection FIFIB 2019 - Official Selection CIFF 2019 - Official Selection VR Arles Festival 2019 - Selection Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival 2019 - 360VR - Official Selection IDFA Doclab 2018 - IDFA Doclab Spotlight - Official Selection Kaohsiung Film Festival 2019 - Unique VR Best VR360 - Official Selection Nashville Film Festival 2019 - Official Selection Ottawa International Animation Festival 2019 - Official Selection IFF ONE WORLD 2019 - Official Selection Anidox : VR Awards 2019 - Official Selection Festival National du Film d'Animation 2019 - Selection Movies that Matter Festival 2019 - Official Selection Sandbox Immersive Festival 2019 - Official Selection

Team

First and last name(s) of the Lead artist(s)
Nicolas Champeaux and Gilles Porte
First and last name(s) of producer(s)
Jérémy Pouilloux and Alexandre Hallier
Main cast
Produced by LA GÉNÉRALE DE PRODUCTION (Jérémy Pouilloux and Alexandre Hallier) Co-producers: UFO PRODUCTION – ROUGE INTERNATIONAL – ARTE FRANCE – RADIO FRANCE – INA Drawings & animation OERD Technical direction Michaël Bolufer Music Aurélien Godderis-Chouzenoux
Lucid RealitiesPart of the CLPB Media Group, Lucid Realities is an immersive and interactive production and distribution company based in Paris, co-founded by Chloé Jarry and François Bertrand. Chloé Jarry is the Executive Producer of The Enemy, the award-winning Virtual and Augmented Reality exhibition directed by Karim Ben Khelifa. The project premiered at the Arabic World Institute in Paris in May 2017 and was showcased during three months at the MIT Museum in Cambridge (Ms) that same year. (Best Journalistic VR project – World VR Forum 2018, Numix 2018 and 2019, Rose d’Or 2017, Sensible Award – GIFF 2018). The projects powered by Lucid Realities are designed to foreshadow the future of the XR industry and innovate ways to produce and distribute XR experiences. For us, XR is more than technology: it’s an opportunity to create unprecedented emotional ways to connect people with edutainment contents. Supported by some of the major players in the film and XR fields (Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Fund, Google DNI, HTC Vive Arts, NFB, European public broadcasters), we have shown our ability to build innovative business models, tell powerful stories and create new kinds of presentation.

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