Immerse Yourself in Film: Experience the NHFF Virtual Reality Series

Step into NHFF’s virtual reality lounge and travel beyond the boundaries of traditional movie watching. As filmmakers are now experimenting with and embracing technology like never before, film festivals around the globe are showcasing this new frontier of storytelling. NHFF is honored to be able to bring our audience this experience. In partnership with WeLens, we present this year’s VR program, This Is Climate Change.

As the New Hampshire Film Festival’s first foray in the world of this modern artform, we will be holding screenings at 24 Congress Street on Friday, October 12 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and Saturday, October 13 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m and 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Our VR programming is open to all NHFF passholders (subject to space availability), who will get to experience the following films.

Melting Ice

Creator: Danfung Dennis

Production Company: Participant Media, Condition One

Duration: 10 minutes

Former Vice President Al Gore takes viewers on a transcendent exploration into the devastating consequences of our changing climate. Stand on the Greenland ice and observe the melt as it courses through bright blue rivers and into gaping moulins, as icebergs melt into the ocean.

Famine

Creator: Eric Strauss

Production Company: Participant Media, Condition One

Duration: 10 Minutes

Travel into the arid expanse of Somalia, where crushing drought caused by rising temperatures has turned once-fertile lands into a year-round desert, placing the survival of a generation of children at great risk.

Fire

Creator: Danfung Dennis & Eric Strauss

Production Company: Participant Media, Condition One

Duration: 11 minutes

In just the last three decades, changes in climate have doubled the amount of land burned by wildfires in the western United States. Experience the scorching California fires of 2017, and follow the dedicated fighters – by air and on the ground – whose jobs have turned into year-round battles against these catastrophic blazes.

Feast

Creator: Danfung Dennis & Eric Strauss

Production Company: Participant Media, Condition One

Duration: 9 minutes

Witness the beautiful expanse of Brazil’s ecologically valuable rainforest, threatened by loggers as massive trees are cleared to make way for sprawling industrial cattle ranches. Can the Amazon survive the growing global demand for beef?

NHFF Virtual Reality Lounge

24 Congress Street

Friday, October 12 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. and 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Saturday, October 13 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. and 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.