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Wikipedia article
'Biidaban: First Light' is a Canadian immersive virtual reality film, created by Lisa Jackson and released in 2018.Chris Rattan, [https://nowtoronto.com/culture/biidaaban-lisa-jackson-virtual-reality "Virtual reality film imagines an Indigenous future for Toronto"]. 'Now', September 14, 2018. The film places viewers in an immersive vision of a Downtown Toronto that has been reclaimed by nature, with vegetation and animals living freely inside the urban landscape, with narration in the indigenous Wendat, Mohawk and Ojibwe languages.Rhiannon Johnson, [https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/lisa-jackson-biidaaban-vr-future-toronto-1.4619041 "Anishinaabe artist's new VR experience takes an Indigenous futurist look at Toronto"]. CBC News Indigenous, April 14, 2018.
Jackson has indicated that the film is not meant to be perceived as apocalyptic, but as a meditation on the importance of humans living in harmony with nature to build a positive future.Lucius Dechausay, [https://www.cbc.ca/arts/exhibitionists/imagine-if-toronto-were-reclaimed-by-nature-this-indigenous-futurism-vr-experience-takes-you-there-1.4828320 "Imagine if Toronto were reclaimed by nature. This Indigenous futurism VR experience takes you there"]. CBC Arts, September 18, 2018. She created the film in conjunction with 3D artist Mathew Borrett, digital production agency Jam3 and the digital studio of the National Film Board of Canada.Randy Astle, [https://filmmakermagazine.com/105184-our-culture-is-in-our-language-lisa-jackson-on-her-vr-film-biidaaban-first-light-and-indigenous-futurism/#.X2N2dot7mUk "Our Culture is in Our Language: Lisa Jackson on Her VR Film Biidaaban: First Light and Indigenous Futurism"]. 'Filmmaker', July 23, 2018.
The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2018. It received a special event screening at Nathan Phillips Square in September,Gilbert Ngabo, [https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/09/18/the-subway-tracks-are-flooded-highrises-crumbling-step-into-a-toronto-reclaimed-by-nature-in-indigenous-artists-highly-realistic-virtual-reality-film.html "The subway tracks are flooded, highrises crumbling: Step into a Toronto reclaimed by nature in Indigenous artists highly realistic virtual reality film"]. 'Toronto Star', September 18, 2018. before having its official Canadian premiere at the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.Chris Knight, [https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/movies/how-biidaaban-imagines-a-future-in-which-the-first-peoples-have-reclaimed-their-territory "How Biidaaban imagines a future in which the First Peoples have reclaimed their territory"]. 'National Post', September 21, 2018.
Awards
At imagineNATIVE, the film won the award for Best Interactive Work.Laura Friesen, [https://nsi-canada.ca/2018/10/nsi-grads-pick-up-awards-at-2018-imaginenative-film-fest/ "NSI grads pick up awards at 2018 imagineNATIVE film fest"]. National Screen Institute, October 22, 2018. It won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Immersive Experience, Fiction at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canadian-screen-awards-digital-cbc-finding-cleo-1.5076354 "CBC's Finding Cleo among winners at Canadian Screen Awards"]. CBC News, March 28, 2019.
References
Category:2018 films
Category:Canadian Screen Award-winning films
Category:Canadian short documentary films
Category:First Nations films
Category:Films set in Toronto
Category:Films shot in Toronto
Category:Virtual reality films
Category:National Film Board of Canada short films
Category:2010s Canadian films
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