On Tuesday 23rd February 2021 Future Screens NI hosted Alex Rühl presenting on the topic of storytelling in Extended Reality and fielding questions on the opportunities in XR platforms. Alex is an award-winning virtual reality filmmaker, TED X Speaker and founder of VR production studio CATS are not PEAS. As well as directing and producing VR projects, Alex is invited to speak globally on the topic of next-generation storytelling and the potential of VR as a cinematic art form. She is an advisor to companies and brands about the creative processes behind VR and the behaviours of the audiences that experience it. Alex has curated a strand of 360 films for a pop-up VR cinema in Leicester hosted at the Phoenix Cinema supported by the BFI.
Alex is the first VR creator to be funded by the BFI Network to bring her latest virtual reality drama 'Bad News' into existence.
You can find out more about Alex and CATS are not PEAS here: https://www.catsarenotpeas.com/