Common Ground
Synopsis
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Tribeca Immersive - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2019
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 30 min
- Format
- Virtual Reality
- Director
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Darren Emerson
- Producer
- Darren Emerson
- Executive Producer
- Ashley Cowan, Darren Emerson
- Editor
- Conan Roberts
- Director of Photography
- Jessica Curran, Darren Emerson, Conan Roberts, Andrew Yardley
- Sound
- Oliver Kadel
- Composer
- "The Order of Death" by PIL, "Daytime Television" by Turtle
- Principal cast
- Kevin Holland, Jean Bartlett, Judi Bos, Anthony Badu, John Boughton
- Unity Development
- All Seeing Eye
- Commissioned by
- Arts Council England and Creative XR
Genre
Production Status
Production Company
Sales Company
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