Constructed Memories
TFI Suppport
TFI Pond5 Program 2019 Fall
Logline
CONSTRUCTED MEMORIES, an immersive episodic narrative, experienced through transformative conversations between father and daughter across barriers of time and space.
Patricia Antelles
Immersive Designer, Director, Co-Producer
As Creative Technologist and creator of emerging media, Patricia designs experiential story-based projects. Collaborating with design teams she produces compelling experiences across film, immersive and interactive media. Her passion is amplifying the potential of interactive, augmented, virtual and mixed realities to digital storytelling.
Melinda Hess
Immersive Subject, Editor, Co-Producer
Melinda Hess is a film editor, director and producer of documentary films. Melinda and her deceased father are subjects of The Constructed Memories Project. Melinda was the Filmmaker in Residence at The Jewish Film Institute and now a current resident filmmaker/editor at the SF Ninth Street Independent Film Center. Most recently, Melinda was a consulting producer and editor of 5 Blocks documentary, unveiling the disparity and complexity of Tech’s impact on San Francisco.
Nathalie Mathe
Cinematic Virtual Reality Advisor
Nathalie Mathe is an award winning Virtual Reality, animation and documentary director interested in pushing the boundaries of immersive storytelling and interactivity for exploring social, cultural and diversity issues. Her first interactive VR film UTURN is a comedy on gender discrimination in the tech industry. Her second room-scale interactive experience Wllada focuses on creativity, resilience and Arab poetry, using photogrammetry and volumetric video. Nathalie is currently tenure-track faculty at Drexel University in Pennsylvania.
Tim Kanellitsas
Designer and Unity Developer
Tim Kanellitsas is a Unity developer, co-founder and Director of KairosXR Design. Tim is a developer/designer on virtual and augmented reality projects across Healthcare, Academia, Enterprise Training and Industrial Design. Working directly with Unity Technologies, he teaches best-practices for XR applications for non-gaming use cases. Tim obsesses over XR as a communication tool, seeing immersive technologies as an opportunity to make the intangible tangible, gain insights with behavioral analytics, and unlock latent abilities.
Andrew Jevsevar
Unity Developer
Andrew Jevsevar is is a Unity developer, co-founder and Director of Technology of KairosXR. As a Unity developer, Andrew focuses exclusively on mobile and console-based virtual reality and augmented reality. Working with over a dozen teams integrating VR/ AR into their workflows using Unity – Volkswagen, Niantic, Karma Automotive, Deloitte – Andrew instructs and integrates immersive platforms seamlessly.
Armand Aguirre
Mixed Reality Content Creator
Armand Aguirre is a created mixed reality content creator in 360 and volumetric capture. Armand is passionate about creating the future and collaborating on building the next digital platform for the human evolution. In the past few years his focus shifted to VR/AR he saw the potential and how this technology can revolutionize our world in health education and media along with blockchain, artificial intelligence.