AI x XR STORYTELLING SHOWCASE
A non-competitive showcase of innovative works created through artificial intelligence and immersive technologies. Curated in partnership with GRX Immersive Labs, the program explores the future of storytelling by featuring bold new voices at the intersection of creativity and technology.
The B Side: The Future is Past
USA | 6 min | US PREMIERE
When visitors from the sky descend on a terror-haunted Jim Crow community, one young Black girl understands what the adults cannot – salvation has arrived, and it chose her.
Director: Kimberly Offord | Writer: Kimberly Offord | Producers: Kimberly Offord
Cowbone
USA | 2 min | WORLD PREMIERE
When a Jamaican excavator operator is left in the Jamaican jungle alone, he knocks down the wrong tree and discovers that some roots are better left buried.
Director: Alexander Newman Hall | Writer: Alexander Newman Hall | Producers: Alexander Newman Hall
Eat The Rich
USA | 6 min | WORLD PREMIERE
After the middle class is quietly “optimized” out of existence, a starving Dracula pivots to a new menu—wealthy professionals who are about to learn that money doesn’t buy immunity, just a later appointment.
Director: Tiffani Lee Joseph | Writer: Tiffani Lee Joseph | Producers: Tiffani Lee Joseph
FAME FARM
USA | 9 min | WORLD PREMIERE
The future ain’t what it used to be.
Director: Whoingodsname | Writer: Whoingodsname | Producers: Kharmony Fortune
The Haunting of RiverFalls
USA | 7 min | WORLD PREMIERE
When a matriarch witch of a powerful Black lineage teaches her daughter to cross into the spirit world, a forbidden ritual goes wrong—and a demonic entity follows the girl back, threatening to destroy their bloodline forever.
Director: Aaron Avont Johnson | Writer: Aaron Avont Johnson | Producers: Aaron Johnson, Takela Johnson, Dasha Johnson | Cast: Aaron Johnson