— ROLE

Technical Producer

— DATE

09/2018

— AWARDS

2020 Emmy Winner – Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary

For the Amazonian Yawanawa, 'medicine' has the power to travel you in a vision to a place you have never been. Hushahu, the first woman shaman of the Yawanawa, uses VR like medicine to open a portal to another way of knowing. Awavena is a collaboration between a community and an artist, melding technology and transcendent experience so that a vision can be shared, and a story told of a people ascending from the edge of extinction.

Awavena fuses 360 live action documentary footage with beautiful real-time rendered Lidar point cloud scans of the Amazon rainforest, allowing the viewer to travel from the physical world to the ethereal vision realm unlocked by the sacred medicine.