Hot Springs So Real You Feel Virtual Steam
Directing VR in a War Zone—"The Sun Ladies"
‘The Sun Ladies’ Filmmakers On Telling The Story Of “Empowered Women” Through A VR Lens – Sundance Studio
https://deadline.com/2018/01/the-sun-ladies-documentary-maria-bello-virtual-reality-sundance-studio-1202265200/
Sundance Film Festival 2018: The Sun Ladies VR
This immersive live-action documentary brings you face-to-face with a troop of Yazidi women fighters. After ISIS soldiers invaded the Yazidi community of Sinjar, killing all of the men and taking the women and girls as sex slaves, these brave women escaped and started a female-only fighting unit called the Sun Ladies. Together, their goal is to bring back their sisters and protect the honor and dignity of their people.
Q&A: Dylan Roberts talks 360 production in conflict zones + VR at Sundance 2018
Freelance Society Co-Founder Dylan Roberts has been producing VR content since 2015. His clients for VR (and flatties) range from Ryot and The Economist to The New York Times, among others.
360 video in a war zone: Image Junkies Podcast
The Imagejunkies podcast is now a reality. In the first episode, I talk with Freelance filmmaker Dylan Roberts about his work shooting 360 videos in Mosul while embedded with the Iraqi Federal Police.
You can listen to the embedded player below or download from itunes via this link – https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-imagejunkies-podcast/id1298728423
We discuss the challenges of working in Iraq, the kit he uses and his plans for the future. If you are a filmmaker who wants to expand into 360 video or virtual reality filmmaking then you really need to listen to this show.
I’m hoping to release a new episode of the podcast every week – on Mondays. We’ll be speaking with video journalists, camera operators, picture editors and security experts about the trials and tribulations of working in TV news and documentary production.
The Tulsa Voice: The new journalism
Dylan Roberts, Stephen’s business and creative partner at Freelance Society, stood in front of me, smiling. A Texan by birthright, Roberts recently moved to Tulsa and will be at the Tulsa Overground Film & Music Festival to show off the virtual reality (VR) technology behind his reporting techniques and give insight to the possibilities VR brings to the storytelling world.
Frontier Profile: Dylan Roberts lives an amazing life that no one quite believes. But he has the videos to prove it.
The 27-year-old has traveled the world, started his own video production and 360 VR company, and had a mortar land on the hood of a military vehicle he was inside of in northern Iraq....
Is war reporting no longer viable? 'Welcome to Aleppo' film-maker on the battle to give a voice to the forgotten
Tulsa-based Freelance Society making global impression with virtual-reality videos
Dylan Roberts always has felt compelled to tell stories through a lens. And the more dangerous the venue, the better. He has been to places such as Iraq,
Christian Stephen: Virtual Reality Pushing Journalism Frontiers
Christian Stephen is behind the first-ever virtual reality film from a warzone ‘Welcome to Aleppo’, capturing a 360-degree-view from the most dangerous city in Syria. Christian is the Global Editor at RYOT, a digital news platform reporting worldwide. He has been documenting conflicts for the past 5 years in Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Central African Republic and many more. He has worked for various organizations, such as VICE, MSNBC, and Vocativ.
