In the context of the Immerse\Interact collaborative grant scheme, the Creative Industries Fund NL and the Netherlands Film Fund are supporting 13 projects within the interdisciplinary media landscape. It concerns nine development and four realization contributions.

The grant scheme Immerse\Interact focuses on the crossover between film, design, and digital culture. Artistic research and experiment in the field of digital storytelling and the use of interactive or immersive media play a central role.

Projects selected

There are 9 projects that receive a development contribution. Two of them are:

• Mask Maker and the Tree – Abner Preis en producent Institute of Time B.V.
  Combining VR and interactive performance, Mask Maker and the Tree depicts the idea of happiness and its blind costs, as the participants take an active role and play the group of villagers who go on a difficult journey to find a tree to cut down for the sake of their own happiness.

• The Hongkongers Project – Yan Ting Yuen, Doris Yeung en producent Docmakers B.V.
  The Hongkongers Project is an immersive and interactive digital project that aims to explore and construct the preservation of Hong Kong’s identity in the cyberspace of the diaspora, before it disappears forever.

Discover all selected projects here.

The next deadline for this grant scheme is August 30, 2022.