The Canaries Experience
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- Year
- 2025
- Type of project
- XR / Immersive
- Running time
- 20 min
- Format
- Immersive VR mixed reality film / Game
- Director
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Salma Shalaby
- Producer
- Salma Shalaby
- Co-Producer
- Pooja Saini
- Executive Producer
- Salma Shalaby
- Screenwriter
- Salma Shalaby
- Director of Photography
- Salma Shalaby
- Principal cast
- Sio Wynne, Steven Stroud, Dr Emma Roberts, Sunny Blainey, Harriet Morley, Ashline George
- Other Lead Creative(s)
- Liverpool John Moores University Suicide and Self Harm Research Group, James Place
- Assistant Producer
- Ashline George
- Lead Supervisor
- Professor Pooja Saini
- Co-Supervisors
- Dr Oladayo Bifarian, Dr Ryan Ward
- Composer and Audio Programmer
- Christophe Péreuil
- 3D Asset Designer
- Boby Ichev
- Developers and Programmers
- Charitha Liyanaarachchilage, Lead Technical Developer; Owen Monaghan, UI System Developer; Rinku Sara Chacko, UI and C++ Programmer; Max Spencer Hughes, UI Coder and Audio Programmer/ Developer
- Game Developer
- Sebastian Purves
- Acknowledgments
- Kira Ann Lonergan, Developer; James Traynor, Technician; Niall Mcann, Advisor; Sarah Haynes and Camilla Affleck, LJMU Screen School; Hisham Nazih, For permission to use his compositions 'Diamond Dust' and 'Constellations'; Allie Esiri, For permission to use 'The Guest House' by Rumi from her anthologies 'A Poem for Every Autumn Day' and '365 Poems for Life', read by Helena Bonham Carter
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