Breathe

A 360° mixed reality immersive experience documentary, estimated duration: 10-15 minutes. Work-in-progress. Teaser: https://youtu.be/v0RvlDFrhSw The project offers to share with us what parents who are dealing with a premature birth go through, in combination with the babies' immersive POV in CGI design, VFX and spatial sound. The director - who is also a veteran creator specializing in 360 photography - documented moments of the life she shared with her partner and the father of her children, during the three and a half months that their twin sons were in intensive care hospitalization. The documentation continues to this day as they celebrate three years. SYNOPSIS It is a dark night outside of Paris… a young couple rushes by car to the hospital. The woman is clearly in pain. It is a scene we have all seen many times in movies, on the news, and even in our own lives. New life is on its way… but the pained expressions and sounds coming from this couple indicate that this is going to be very different from the story of childbirth that most of us are familiar with. "Faster, faster! Something's wrong!" The woman moans and holds her stomach, urging her partner “Breathe!” says the man to his wife. “Breathe!” Preterm is defined as babies born alive before 37 weeks of pregnancy are completed. There are sub-categories of preterm birth, based on gestational age: extremely preterm (less than 28 weeks) very preterm (28 to 32 weeks) moderate to late preterm (32 to 37 weeks). An estimated 15 million babies are born too early every year worldwide. That is more than 1 in 10 babies. Approximately 1 million children die each year due to complications of preterm birth. Many survivors face a lifetime of disability, including learning disabilities and visual and hearing problems. Globally, prematurity is the leading cause of death in children under the age of 5 years.