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    Inclusive Storytelling

    The Book of Distance

    By Randall Okita / National Film Board of Canada 

    The Book of Distance is a room-scale interactive virtual reality experience that imagines new possibilities for personal storytelling.

    In 1935, Yonezo Okita left his home in Hiroshima, Japan, and began a new life in Canada. Then war and state-sanctioned racism changed everything – he became the enemy. Three generations later, his grandson, artist Randall Okita, leads us on an interactive virtual pilgrimage through an emotional geography of immigration and family to recover what was lost.

    Festival selections

    • Sundance Film Festival – New Frontier, Park City, Utah, USA (2020)
    • Tribeca Film Festival – Tribeca Immersive (2020)
    • Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival – DocX (2020)
    • Tribeca Virtual Arcade @ Cannes XR (2020)
    • Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) – Beyond Reality 2020 edition
    • Venice International Film Festival – Venice VR Expanded (2020)
    • New Images Festival – XR Competition (2020)
    • Ottawa International Animation Festival – VR Competition (2020)
    • Vancouver International Film Festival – VIFF Immersed (2020)
    • Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal (2020)
    • Kaohsiung Film Festival – VR (2020)


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    Credits

    • Written and directed by
      Randall Okita
    • Produced by
      David Oppenheim
    • Executive Producer
      Anita Lee


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