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The Red Room Project:

(theredroomproject.com)

A Virtual Reality Documentary (directed by Adele Ray) and Live Immersive Experience (with artist, Shino Smoke.)

The Red Room Project VR DOC (RT: 5 min)

The Red Room Project is an artist portrait and 360 VR music documentary following the evolution of Oakland-based artist, Shino Smoke who has matured in his craft after migrating from his home in Sacramento to the artist enclave of Oakland. Shino finds inspiration, connectedness, and healing in his Red Room from the trauma of violence and tragedies in his artist community like the Ghost Ship Fire in Oakland.

The 360 immersive experience film will be viewed at the "The Room Room Project: VR Pop Up and Live Performance". A collaboration with Ina Adele Ray, Shino Smoke, and Tatu Vision. The idea sparked for the project when Adele complimented Shane on his red dreadlocks at the office/galler space they both work at. He explained to her that he was going through a "red" phase in his art and he described to her this "Red Room" where he created his music and collaborates with other artists. Adele decided to use 360 video for this project because the "space" was just as much a "character" in telling Shino's story.

In partnership with media producer and DP, Noam Eshel, Adele decided to venture into the world of 360 video. She approached the project int he typical 2D documentary filmmaking fashion, by conducting a pre-interview with Shino. She asked him questions about his "Red Room", his art, and how he got into music and hist motivations, etc. This VR story takes us beyond his "Red Room" from Sacramentro to a saloon in downtown Oakland (at one of his shows) to the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland.

Bios:

Musician Shino Smoke is an Oakland based MC and Hip-Hop artist that migrated from Sacremento, Ca to Oakland in 2016. Since his arrival he has been immersed in the Oakland artist scene that has led to caious artistic projects focused on creating safe creative spaces for anyone involved. These projets include but are not limited to hosting and being the on camera talent for "Saturday Nights in America: Oakland" 360 Virtual Reality documentary that foccuses on an artists showcase at a local gallery in efforts to invite locals back tot he space after a deadly shooting had taken place a few months before. He also hosted BAOBOB (Bay Are Organization of Black Owned Businesses) Relaunch event (2018), and several open mics and mixers.

Film director, Ina Adele Ray AKA Adele migrated from Brooklyn, NY to Oakland, Ca back in 2011. She has worked in film and production in both the commercial and non-profit worlds as mainly an editor and producer for over 17 years. Her directoral work focuses on personall story-driven documentary. She is crrently producing a short film web series called "Family Chapters" that explores transgenerationa; trauma from both her Vietnamese and Scotish-Irish American family lineges. Adele has presented a workshop "Ethnography and VR" at the 2017 EPIC Conference in Montreal, Canada.

Producer/Director of Photography Noam Eshel is an independent filmmaker, producer and cimneatographer. He specialized in non-fiction visual storytelling and has created short form mutlimedia pieces for major brands and media outlets in the US and around the world. He has shot produced and directed documentaries that were screened at the international film festivals. Noam was born in Israel, grew up in Uruguay and lived in Spain before moving to Oakland in 2012. He's currently working on a series of VR projects that focused on youth imigrants and their journey to the US. Using character-driven filmmaking approach hes's able to create truly engaging videos that tell a unitque story, always with a human touch.