Sumak Stories
Changing the way stories are told,
both in content and in form
The FRP uses immersive media technology to address the separation of undocumented immigrants to their families and hometowns.
The FRP creates “virtual postcards,” virtual reality experiences that have included 360-videos, volumetric captures (holograph-like videos), photogrammetry environments (life-scale 3D recreations of rooms), and non-linear, interactive components.
Selected Press
NBC News - “Separated by borders, reunited with virtual reality”
Interactive, room-scale virtual reality documentary exploring themes of nostalgia, family separation, and home.
Winner of the Oculus Launch Pad Prize
Selected Festival Screenings
Atlanta Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, VR Days Amsterdam, Camden International Film Festival, Tacoma Film Festival
Selected Press
Forbes - “Virtual reality project exposes family separation of undocumented immigrants”
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Upcoming documentary following hundreds of Central American migrants as they form a “caravan” and must navigate the pains and joys of unity along an arduous journey across Mexico towards the United States.
Highlights
*First-ever VR-2D hybrid documentary
*Excerpts from this documentary helped an influential immigrant-services nonprofit raise 12% more than projected at a fundraiser in 2019.
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Augmented reality experience providing a window into the odyssey that is clandestine migration to the U.S.
In partnership with MacArthur Genius Jason De Léon, the project is the digital layer to a global pop-up exhibition highlighting the humanitarian crisis at the U.S.’s southern border.
Highlights
*Prototype funded by Verizon’s 5G Storytelling Challenge.
*Originally slated to appear across 150 locations globally during fall 2020, the project is transitioning to a digital-only format due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Short documentary following undocumented delivery workers at the height of the pandemic in New York City.
Highlights
*Funded by a National Geographic’s COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists
*Used by high-profile nonprofit Make the Road NY for advocacy campaign to provide government funds to excluded workers
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