TORONTO – Hollywood Suite’s documentary Ferris’s Room and its accompanying VR experience, Ferris’s Room VR, are gearing up to make their film festival debut during Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories (FIVARS) and Cinéfest Sudbury this month, with the VR element also making its U.S. debut at Slamdance DIG.
The feature documentary from director Ryan Mains follows Canadian artist Sarah Keenlyside (pictured) as she travels to Chicago to recreate Ferris Bueller’s iconic bedroom as part of the celebrations for the 30th anniversary of the John Hughes’s classic comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Produced by Hollywood Suite, the documentary premiered earlier this year.
FIVARS (September 14-16) and Slamdance DIG (September 13-15) will offer festival participants a chance to take a 360° virtual reality tour of Ferris’s Room, where they can toss around Ferris’s baseball, play his synthesizer, and hear Keenlyside share details on how she found or recreated Ferris’s prized possessions. Cinéfest Sudbury (September 15-23) will show both the documentary and the VR experience, which will be the festival’s first-ever virtual reality element.
“We are very proud of Ferris’s Room and the success that Ryan and Sarah have had thus far,” said Hollywood Suite president David Kines, in the news release. “We thank FIVARS, Cinéfest Sudbury, and Slamdance DIG for including these special projects in their festival programming and can’t wait for more audiences to experience them.”
Ferris’s Room is part of an ongoing CMF-funded project by Hollywood Suite to create immersive, multi-platform content that explores the way film impacts individuals, as well as culture as a whole.
