Emmy Award®-Winning Immersive Content Studio RYOT Premieres Slate Of XR Projects At 2019 Sundance Film Festival

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Media's award-winning content studio RYOT (www.ryot.org) will debut their slate of XR projects at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival this month. The innovation incubator's latest immersive experiences, GLOOMY EYES, THE DIAL, and A JESTER'S TALE, will premiere as part of the festival's New Frontier program. This triad of groundbreaking experiences are from creators who continue to revolutionize the next generation of content creation by bringing their astounding storytelling and groundbreaking technology to consumers across the globe.

RYOT's 2019 Sundance Film Festival New Frontier slate:

GLOOMY EYES
The animated virtual reality series GLOOMY EYES, directed by Jorge Tereso and Fernando Maldonado, chronicles a remote town where being a zombie is against the law. Like all of his kind, young Gloomy is hiding in the forest, away from bounty hunters. But Gloomy is different. While bitterness plagues the city, he strives to find a balance in his mysterious dual nature.  

Location: New Frontier at The Ray / 1780 Park Ave., Park City UT 84060
Times: January 25 (2PM-9:30PM), January 26 (4PM-7:30PM), January 27 (2PM-9:30PM), January 28 (2PM-9:30PM), January 29 (2PM-9:30PM), January 30 – February 1 (12PM-9:30PM), February 2 (10AM-5:30PM)

THE DIAL
THE DIAL, an interactive narrative that combines augmented reality and projection mapping, is centered around a woman who smashes through the stone wall outside her family home. This visual tale unravels the formerly wealthy family's emotional underbelly and what happened that fateful night, as seen from shifting perspectives where you control time by moving your body.

Location: New Frontier Central / 950 Iron Horse Dr., Park City UT 84060
Times: January 25 – February 1 (12PM-7PM), February 2 (10AM-5PM)

A JESTER'S TALE
Experience the viscerality of a psychologically taxing children's fable merging with the physicality of our world as you come home cold and tired, just in time for a bedtime story. In this interactive augmented reality narrative, directed by Asad J. Malik, the characters are just hollow meshes, but maybe so are you.

Location: New Frontier Central / 950 Iron Horse Dr., Park City UT 84060
Times: January 25 – February 1 (12PM-7PM), February 2 (10AM-5PM)

For press inquiries, please contact Alex Martinetti ([email protected]) and Mike Fatone ([email protected])

ABOUT RYOT
RYOT is Verizon Media's Emmy Award®-winning content studio and innovation lab that brings astonishing storytelling, immersive experiences and groundbreaking technology to every corner of the world. From XR experiences to advertising and content technology in a 5G world, RYOT is the incubator of innovation and is revolutionizing the next generation of content creation. In 2018, RYOT launched a state-of-the-art motion capture studio with the mission to create new content formats of the future. The cutting-edge technology housed in RYOT's Innovation Studio elevates the way content is created and continues to move the company far ahead of the technological curve. Highlights include Emmy Award® nominations for the AR project L.A. LOUVRE and VR project BEHIND THE FENCE.

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