[ShaneP]

Inarritu and ILMxLab are teaming for a short film about Mexican immigrants and the perils and dangers they face crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/aleja ... 201872849/

[Kmart]

Is it just the pneumonia talking, or does this seem to be a strange time politically to cover this subject?

[ShaneP]

It could be strange or incredible timely. My question is if it's a VR film does that mean a first person sort of experience and we are the undocumented person going through obstacles or are we passive viewers?
Maybe it will be like Sicario's drug and immigrant tunnel sequence? That sequence features many different first person perspectives.

[ShaneP]

Inarritu is releasing this film at Cannes next month. Called Carne y Arena.

[ShaneP]

NYT bit about this film. In the works for four years apparently. Sounds very timely and relevant.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/arts ... annes.html

[ShaneP]

Owen Gleiberman's experience of this VR at Cannes:

http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/ca ... 202438293/

[ShaneP]

And Anne Thompson's:

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/05/alejan ... 1819096/2/

[ShaneP]

More from The Verge and the experience at the LA County Museum of Art:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/8/15941 ... ion-border

[ShaneP]

It was announced yesterday that the Carne y Arena experience will be awarded with a Special Achievement Oscar in this next year's upcoming Academy Awards ceremony.
This is a landmark as it is the first VR experience to be awarded with an Oscar.

Here is one the Variety article about it:

http://variety.com/2017/film/awards/osc ... 202601265/

[ShaneP]

Variety talks to Alejandro about the project:

http://variety.com/2017/film/in-content ... 202610586/