Russia hosts the 39th MIFF, one of the oldest international film festivals. For the first time this year the festival carries out VR-cinema Russian VR Seasons – spherical works, created for viewing in virtual reality helmets. VR has already become an important part of the world’s film festivals, especially in the US: Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca, South by South West get actively interested in new forms of film history.
The program will show studios’ feature films and independent films, experiments in the field of spherical cinema and VR. Within the framework of Russian VR Seasons, AFL Productions, LLC presented on June 23rd, 2017 the project “MASKI VR” and showed two sketches that are already on the four largest VR platforms in the world, as well as the premiere of the new comedy sketch of the comic troupe “Maski” from the series MASKI VR , which has not yet appeared on world’s platforms. The presentation has also included extracts from the early works of George Deliev and Yuri Volodarsky with the participation of the comic-troupe “Maski”, which have gained popularity in the CIS and many countries around the world: Odessa-Mama, 7 Days with Russian Beauty.
MASKI VR is now available in Apple Store
This June was very productive for the project, in particular, in terms of access to the Internet platforms. Just the other day, the world’s first comic sketch series MASKI VR 3D, produced by AFL Productions, LLC in early 2017, was approved on the Apple platform, which thus became the fourth largest resource where the first two sketches of the project are already available absolutely for free.
Official links to all four platforms:
Apple – https://itunes.apple.com/ru/app/maskishow/id1229700855?mt=8
Google Play – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MeriotLLC.Maski
Oculus Store – https://www.oculus.com/experiences/gear-vr/1463424230375092/
Steam – http://store.steampowered.com/app/616810/Maski_VR/
AFL Productions, LLC received an offer from the НТС to make a release of the MASKI VR project in their Viveport VR Store in China
The release of the eccentric comedy series on the Chinese market coincided with the long-planned touring of the comic troupe “Maski” in the ” Celestial Empire”. After successful tours in Japan and Korea, “Maski” were invited to China many times, but the team was busy with shooting for television and tours. Finally “Maski” will be able to present their work both on stage and in virtual reality. The release of the application for China is scheduled for July 2017 as well as a comic troupe “Maski” Live Tour will cover more than 10 cities of China .
Short history of “MASKI VR” project:
2016 marked the 25th anniversary of the television slapstick comedy series – “Maski-Show”!
To mark this significant date, AFL Productions decided to make a present to “Maski” and Virtual Reality Fans by launching a VR application for the revered comictroupe. Now, fans will be able to download all 8 episodes from the first season, 2 of which will be presented absolutely free.
The cоmic troupe “Maski” gained international acclaim from their initial appearance at Moscow’s International Festival of Students in 1984. They were signed for touring shows in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Successfully traveling the world, creating a new repertoire of live performances and developing their own style of clown theater based on silent cinema, the comic troupe “Maski” didn’t stop there.
Short History of comic-troupe “MASKI”:
In 1991, the troupe started producing a television comedy series in the silent cinema style called “Maski-Show” from their home base of Odessa. The series very quickly began to win the love of viewers not only in CIS countries, but also internationally. Today, there are about 100 films from the series in the group’s vault, many of which have won prestigious national and international awards.
George Deliev, the artisitic inspiration behind the troupe from day one, speaks about the new project: “Maski toured in Germany, Denmark, Poland, Great Britain, Japan, and Colombia. Everywhere, our humor and our art has been understandable, universal, edgy, and funny! The audiences have always been very bright and warm. And now we’re working with Virtual Reality. I think this is a modern, unusual and unique technology that opens up new tools for interaction between the artists and the audience. The main advantage of VR is the tremendous effect of presence, the feeling that the action is being played directly around you the viewer! ”
