On January 13th 2018, 1.4m people across Hawai’i received an SMS from the state’s Emergency Management Agency: BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
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On a regular Saturday morning in January 2018, as Hawaiian
citizens went about their daily routines, the entire state population received an SMS from the Hawai’i Emergency Management Agency, which read:
BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII.
SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
As cellular communication networks collapsed and panic took hold of the population, 1.4m people (as well as their friends and relatives across the globe) came to understand the real, growing and urgent nature of today’s nuclear threat.
Nothing Happened. Everything Changed.
The brief was to find a way of humanising this vast, existential issue of global nuclear security, whilst at the same time updating and making relevant to a contemporary audience a threat which for many people felt like a relic from the Cold War era.
As with NOTES ON BLINDNESS, our previous collaboration with the Atlas V team, it was immediately clear to us that the emotional immediacy of the story lay within the accounts of those who had experienced the events of 13th January firsthand. The next year or so was therefore spent interviewing contributors from across the islands, who shared their personal stories with extraordinary generosity and candor.
This story structure was inspired and underpinned by the extraordinary work of writer Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, whose eponymous spoken word poem provides an indispensable lyrical framework for each chapter of the experience, as well as yielding its title.
Jamaica’s words not only place the Hawaiian missile alert into a crucial historical, social, and cultural context. They also evolve in tone throughout the three chapters, modulating and stimulating the user’s journey from disbelief and anger through to a sense of solidarity, and finally determined optimism for change.
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Mike Brett & Steve Jamison are co-founders of production studio Archer’s Mark. Their directorial debut, the feature documentary NEXT GOAL WINS, won universal critical acclaim on its release. After premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, it won the British Independent Film Award (BIFA) for Best Documentary, earning the pair recognition as Screen International Future Leaders and a place on BAFTA’s Breakthrough program.
They later produced the Emmy Award-winning New York Times Op-Doc NOTES ON BLINDNESS (directed by Peter Middleton & James Spinney). The debut feature of the same name premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, going on to earn six BIFA nominations (taking home the award for Best Documentary) and three BAFTA nominations, including Best Documentary and Outstanding British Film. The film’s multi-award-winning VR companion piece (co-produced with the Atlas V team) also premiered at Sundance, and has become a seminal work in the immersive space.
Recent projects include the much-lauded Roy Andersson documentary BEING A HUMAN PERSON, which gained Mike & Steve a third consecutive BIFA nomination for Best Documentary, and THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN. Funded by Showtime, Film4 and the BFI, the film premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival and has been nominated for three Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards. They are currently producing Taika Waititi’s narrative remake of NEXT GOAL WINS for Searchlight Pictures.
Arnaud Colinart
Beginning his career in digital content in the French award-winning production house Agat Films / Ex Nihilo, Arnaud Colinart’s work merges new technologies with storytelling.
Colinart has 15 years experience across multiple media industries spanning Documentary, Animated series, feature film, video games and virtual reality experiences.
He has contributed to numerous keynotes and workshops dedicated to innovation in storytelling such as Sundance Lab, Tribeca Storyscapes, SXSW, MIT – Media Lab, Oculus Connect, Cannes Next, IDFA DocLab and AdWeek Europe, amongst others.
After he produced and co-directed his first VR Experience, NOTES ON BLINDNESS (Sundance New Frontier 2016, Tribeca Storyscapes Award 2016, SXSW Innovation Award Finalist 2017), Colinart decided to start a new company dedicated to new forms of storytelling with the pioneering VR duet of Antoine Cayrol & Pierre Zandrowicz, and digital entrepreneur Fred Volhuer.
With Atlas V, Arnaud led the production of SPHERES by Eliza McNitt (Lion for Best VR at the 75th Venice International Film Festival 2018), BATTLESCAR by Martin Allais and Nico Casavecchia (Sundance 2018, Tribeca Storyscape, 2018 Venice VR 2019), PULSION by Pedro Casavecchia (Storytelling Award, Annecy Film Festival 2019), FORTUNE: THE BALLAD OF FRANK BOURASSA by Brett Gaylor, (Sundance New Frontier 2020) and CHAUVET: THE DAWN OF ART by Pierre Zandrowicz (Interactive Media Emmy Nominee 2021).
Pierre Zandrowicz
Pierre Zandrowicz is a French director and artist whose work explores the boundaries between cinema, immersive technologies, and new forms of imagination. A pioneer of virtual reality storytelling in Europe, he gained recognition with I, Philip, the first VR fiction coproduced by ARTE, followed by works presented at Venice, Tribeca, and SXSW, where he won the Jury Prize in 2022.Co-founder of Atlas V company, he develops immersive experiences that combine visual innovation with intimate storytelling, often at the crossroads of reality and dreams. His work questions our relationship to images, memory, and perception.With Paradoxes, his first series, he extends this exploration into a new narrative format, delving into a territory where the absurd, science fiction, and the intimate converge. He lives and works between Paris and New York.
Created by
Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Arnaud Colinart & Pierre Zandrowicz
Written by
Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Mike Brett & Steve Jamison
Producers
Arnaud Colinart, Jo-Jo Ellison, Mike Brett & Steve Jamison
Co-Producer
Kurban Kassam
Executive Producers
Marianne Lévy-Leblond, Lili Blumers, Alexander Glaser, Tamara Lilino, Patton, Susanna Pollack, Colum Slevin, Yelena Rachitsky, Amy Seidenwurm & Lizzie Francke
Production Designer
Lyall Hakaraia
Hair & Make-up Designer
Tolomani Neemia
Casting by
Lyall Hakaraia & Amy Pemberton-Warbrick
Sound Design
Florent Dumas & Antoine Wert
Original Music by
Bobby Krlic
Music Supervisor
Ed Baillie
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