Get Inspired: 360º Video
Centre Film Festival
Human Centered Design major – and TLT maker-in-residence – Diane Akpovwa was tapped to serve as the Centre Film Festival’s first and only VR intern for the 2025 season. Akpovwa selected six short, immersive films that festival-goers could engage with in a space she also curated.
Project Dastaan
The Quint takes a look at Project Dastaan, an ambitious endeavor to document the stories of dozens of refugees of the 1947 Partition of India while they are still able to tell them. Despite surviving a displacement of millions of people, many refugees have not been able to return home for up to seven decades.
Marketplace Literacy Project
Founded by Dr Madhu Viswanathan, the Market Place Literacy Project “aims to engender knowledge and skills, self-confidence and awareness of rights” in its participants. These principles are being taught through 360º video content, putting global students in the shoes of Tanzanians.
Al Jazeera Contrast
Launched in 2017, Contrast is a bold experiment in storytelling that brings Al Jazeera’s signature focus on the lives of those in underreported global locales to the burgeoning world of immersive media.
