Join the Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival on a virtual ride. This curated program of award winning projects will follow wildlife, take you to the equator, under the ocean and into Indigenous-futuristic Toronto.

WHEN: October 26-28, 2018

TICKETS: $10 admission at the door

WHERE: House of VR, 639 Queen St. West (at Bathurst), upper level

BIIDAABAN: FIRST LIGHT

Lisa Jackson, Mathew Borrett, Jam3 and the National Film Board of Canada

2018 | 6 minutes

The town square is flooded. The infrastructure has merged with local flora and people commute via canoe. In this radically different future, urban life is thriving. Biidaaban: First Light illuminates how Indigenous languages can provide a framework for understanding our place in a reconciled version of Canada’s largest urban environment.

SHARKWATER EXTINCTION

Rob Stewart, Big Screen Productions, Occupied VR, CMF, OMDC and Bell Fund

2018 | 10 minutes

EQUATOR 360: THE LYING STARS

Liquid Cinema, Bell Fund, OMDC, ARTE, Discovery and NHK

2018 | 9 minutes

Equator 360 is a four-part Cinematic Virtual Reality journey that takes viewers around the globe to experience the magical, mysterious, and beautiful ribbon of ecological diversity we call the Equator. In Episode 2: The Lying Stars, experience a starlit night in the Kenyan desert with the Gabra tribe when the sun and moon align over the equator.

THE WILD CANADIAN YEAR

CBC

2017 | 2 minutes each

Lightning storms and tornados whipping across the Canadian prairies, secret worlds buried beneath the snow, polar bears hunting in the open summer waters of Hudson Bay, and lynx that walk on snow chasing their elusive quarry through the northern forests – THE WILD CANADIAN YEAR will showcase the most amazing and rare natural wonders of Canada.