Project Detail

Escape to Shanghai

Name: Escape to Shanghai
Director: Charlotte Mikkelborg
Genre: Human Rights
Released: 2022
Duration: 16 min 01 sec

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Synopsis

'Escape to Shanghai' follows Doris’s epic journey from Germany to safety in Shanghai, on the other side of the world making a temporary home and a new life cut off from the horrors playing out in German-occupied Europe.

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Details

Year: 2022
Type of project: XR / Immersive
Running time: 16 min 01 sec
Format: Virtual Reality (VR)
Director: Charlotte Mikkelborg
Producer: Micaela Blitz
Executive Producer: Ashley Cowan, Darren Emerson, Kelley Szany
Editor: Conan Roberts
Director of Photography: Jon Boyce, Andrew Yardley
Sound: Oliver Kadel
Creative Lead: Ollie Lindsey
Technical Lead: Adam Child
VR Post Producer: Chris McKeeman
Senior Unity Developer: Robin North
Lead Environment & 3D Artist: Olly Skillman-Wilson
Senior Environment & 3D Artist: Jon Polti
Junior Environment & 3D Artist: Elle Mooney
Motion Capture: Target 3D
Motion Capture & Movement Director: Sarah Perry
Production Manager: Stacey Arthur, Viviana Cabral
Production Coordinator: Rachael Sutton
Motion Capture Performers: Rosie Bell, Wanda Cowan, Matthew Churcher, Betty Emerson, Helen Jenkinson, Tom Scurr

Genre

Human Rights

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

East City Films

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