Journey

• Developed and pitched at The Immersive Storytelling Workshop organized by The Netherlands Film Fund in collaboration with Torino Film Lab.

• Supported by the Netherlands Film Fund Immerse/Interact Production Fund.

• World Premiered at IDFA DocLab as a co-presentation by Cinekid and IDFA.

• Selected to the “Best Of” section of the Venice Film Festival Immersive.

• Exhibited at and added to the collection of Museum Arnhem.

• Exhibited at TETEM NL.

CREATOR

Abner Preis is a story-teller whose work is rooted in personal aspirations to give one hope in a situation that seems hopeless, to transfer the ability to laugh at sadness, and to seduce viewers into seeing beauty in bleak objects by offering compositions that play to emotion before aesthetics. What his extensive research, sensitivity and awareness provide is the simple and extremely difficult ability to tell a story with visuals that can be felt before they are understood. You can take it in at first glance, but generally don’t bargain for what happens once you’ve opened the door. What you see is what you get. There’s just a whole lot stacked beneath that.

PRODUCER

Richard Valk - Valk Productions

Co-PRODUCER

Firat Sezgin is a producer working in Film and in New Media with a background in producing feature length films as well as documentaries. After graduation from Emerson College (2011) with a BA in Producing for Film, he returned to Istanbul where he worked in different positions in various productions. In his last five years in Istanbul he joined the largest Turkish studio BKM, where he worked in national and international licensing & distribution as well as more than 20 co-productions. He co-founded Institute of Time to work on independent projects including 3 feature creative documentaries. His last VR work Floodplain premiered in Venice Film Festival. His latest documentary co-production world premiered in the IFFR 2020. He now resides in the Netherlands.