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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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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This showcase of 5 films will screen on Saturday, May 30 | 1:30 pm | Miami Beach Convention Center - Screening Room #1<\/div>[vc_separator color=”custom” css=”.vc_custom_1717517019717{margin-top: 32px !important;}” accent_color=”#ededed”]<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The B Side: The Future is Past<\/h2>\n<\/div>

USA | 6 min | US PREMIERE<\/h4>\n<\/div>[vc_single_image image=”40238″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1777468965572{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 12px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”]

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.<\/p>\n

Director: Kimberly Offord | Writer: Kimberly Offord | Producers: Kimberly Offord<\/p>\n<\/div>

View Trailer ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Cowbone<\/h2>\n<\/div>

USA | 2 min | WORLD PREMIERE<\/h4>\n<\/div>[vc_single_image image=”40239″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1777469012947{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 12px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”]

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.<\/p>\n

Director: Alexander Newman Hall | Writer: Alexander Newman Hall | Producers: Alexander Newman Hall<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>[vc_separator color=”custom” css=”.vc_custom_1717512112112{margin-top: 4px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;}” accent_color=”#ededed”]

Eat The Rich<\/h2>\n<\/div>

USA | 6 min | WORLD PREMIERE<\/h4>\n<\/div>[vc_single_image image=”40241″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1777469118164{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 12px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”]

After the middle class is quietly “optimized” out of existence, a starving Dracula pivots to a new menu\u2014wealthy professionals who are about to learn that money doesn\u2019t buy immunity, just a later appointment.<\/p>\n

Director: Tiffani Lee Joseph | Writer: Tiffani Lee Joseph | Producers: Tiffani Lee Joseph<\/p>\n<\/div>

View Trailer ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

FAME FARM<\/h2>\n<\/div>

USA | 9 min | WORLD PREMIERE<\/h4>\n<\/div>[vc_single_image image=”40242″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1777469149980{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 12px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”]

The future ain’t what it used to be.<\/p>\n

Director: Whoingodsname | Writer: Whoingodsname | Producers: Kharmony Fortune<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The Haunting of RiverFalls<\/h2>\n<\/div>

USA | 7 min | WORLD PREMIERE<\/h4>\n<\/div>[vc_single_image image=”40243″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1777469199144{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 12px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”]

When a matriarch witch of a powerful Black lineage teaches her daughter to cross into the spirit world, a forbidden ritual goes wrong\u2014and a demonic entity follows the girl back, threatening to destroy their bloodline forever.<\/p>\n

Director: Aaron Avont Johnson | Writer: Aaron Avont Johnson | Producers: Aaron Johnson, Takela Johnson, Dasha Johnson | Cast: Aaron Johnson<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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