High-tech Canadians, kids copro added to Sundance

More Canadian content was added to the Sundance Film Festival’s lineup on Monday, including the Argentina-Canada-Italy coproduction The Games Maker.

The Games Maker, from director and screenwriter Juan Pablo Buscarini, will appear in the Sundance Kids program. Vancouver-based Sepia Films served as one of the producers on the project.

The festival’s New Frontier program, which highlights digital projects, will include a showcase of virtual reality installations from Montreal artists Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael. The showcase, titled The VR works of Felix & Paul, will include Herders, where viewers are brought into the world of a nomadic family of yak herders, along with Strangers with Patrick Watson, where a viewer is invited to share a moment with Montreal musician Patrick Watson is his studio. Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski also directed Strangers with Patrick Watson along with Lajeunesse and Raphael.

The showcase will also feature WILD – The Experience, a digital extension of the recently released feature Wild, directed by Jean-Marc Vallee. The VR project from Fox Searchlight and the Fox Innovation Lab is directed by Lajeunesse and Raphael and brings viewers to a scene on the Pacific Crest Trail where protagonist Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) encounters a vision of her deceased mother.

The 2015 festival will be held from Jan. 22 to Feb. 1 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.

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