Omid Zarei
Biography
Omid Zarei is an XR producer & technical director on the quest to explore alternative ways of
storytelling. In 2016, Being a film school graduate & working cinematographer in Paris he got
interested in experimenting with narrative ideas in VR & went on to develop the “VR Workshop
Helsinki” held in Helsinki Aalto University, a hands-on workshop aimed at brining creatives
together to experimenting storytelling in VR. In 2019 his VR project “Songs of future past” was
finalist in the Opera Beyond XR competition at The Finnish National Opera and Ballet.
"A Vocal Landscape" His last project produced by his joint XR production company SUPERPOSITION has won an EPIC MegaGrant. Followed by its world premiere at Venice International Film Festival 2023, presented at NewImages 2024 Festival in Paris & Siggraph 2024 in Denver. It won Best VR Film award at the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology in 2024.
storytelling. In 2016, Being a film school graduate & working cinematographer in Paris he got
interested in experimenting with narrative ideas in VR & went on to develop the “VR Workshop
Helsinki” held in Helsinki Aalto University, a hands-on workshop aimed at brining creatives
together to experimenting storytelling in VR. In 2019 his VR project “Songs of future past” was
finalist in the Opera Beyond XR competition at The Finnish National Opera and Ballet.
"A Vocal Landscape" His last project produced by his joint XR production company SUPERPOSITION has won an EPIC MegaGrant. Followed by its world premiere at Venice International Film Festival 2023, presented at NewImages 2024 Festival in Paris & Siggraph 2024 in Denver. It won Best VR Film award at the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology in 2024.
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