IDA x NYFA present: VR 101 for Documentary

Eren Aksu is a VR Film maker, Entrepreneur, Public Speaker and the Chief Opportunity Creator for Emblematic Group in Los Angeles, California. He has in depth knowledge of the Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality industries, helping companies build custom content solutions and pipelines for these completely new mediums.

Starting his career building Augmented Reality applications, bringing historical figures to life in Istanbul and Virginia, he is currently working as Chief Opportunity Creator at Emblematic Group, one of the industry leaders in Virtual Reality. He speaks regularly at events around the world about frontier technologies and has helped produce multiple VR experiences featured at festivals such as Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, Sheffield Docfest, SIFF X, IDFA. He is also one of the Oculus VR for Good Film Directors.

Celine Tricart is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and stereographer (aka 3D specialist) who is particularly interested in storytelling for stereoscopic cinema and Virtual Reality. Celine has directed several short films, three of which were shot in 3D, and received many awards around the world, including a selection at the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival and a Creative Award from the International 3D & Advanced Imaging Society.

Since 2008 when she graduated from the famous ENS Louis Lumiere film school in Paris, she was the stereographer of more than 20 live broadcasts, commercials and documentaries, and of the first French 3D feature film “Behind the Walls” from directors J. Lacombe and P. Sid (Sombrero Productions- 2010). Celine then became the first-ever feature film female stereographer! Celine Tricart published a book about 3D storytelling in early 2013, available worldwide, and then moved to Los Angeles. She now works closely with the award-winning company 3ALITY TECHNICA on numerous projects including “Stalingrad” by director Fedor Bondarchuk and “Transformers 4 : Age of Extinction” by director Michael Bay.

Celine created her production company “Lucid Dreams Productions” in 2015 focusing on new technologies including Stereoscopic 3D and Virtual Reality. Her first VR film, “Marriage Equality” was shot in July 2015 using the new Nokia Ozo VR camera for clients 3ality Technica and Gannett Company, Inc.

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