Immersive & INTERACTIVE

Much like how cinema changed the lives of people in the previous generation, video games are doing the same for the current generation

Q IS A STORYTELLER JUST FINISHED HIS NEW FILM ZEWEL WHO HAS

Hina IS A FILM EDITOR AND A PRODUCER WHOSE FILMS HAVE PREMIERED AT FESTIVALS WORLDWIDE

VIRTUAL production in films and video games share an intricate and intimate relationship. In fact, a famous real-time creation tool, Unreal Engine, which makes virtual production possible, was first used in a first-person shooter game, Unreal.

We have been filmmakers for a long time, but a story we both loved made us consider 3D video game as a medium. There’s an Indian novella, Sultana’s Dream (1905), by Rokeya Shahkawat Hossain, a futuristic story where a little girl Sultana wakes up in a feminist utopia. It’s a sci-fi dream, with solar energy, flying cars, and a society where all beings in nature are equal. Hossain described a circular system, predicated on equality, compassion and learning as opposed to the pyramid system of patriarchy we still suffer from. It set us thinking: how to adapt her radical vision for a contemporary audience.