Survivor Love Letter
TFI Suppport
TFI Pond5 Program 2018
Logline
Through a network of augmented reality murals centering Survivors of sexual assault, SURVIVOR LOVE LETTER presents a galaxy where survivors are not only believed and supported, but also loved unconditionally. Using our AR app, users can watch the mural and the love letter come to life throughanimation, and read a library of love letters from survivors and allies all over the world, and ultimately have the option to add to the galaxy by writing their own.
Jess X. Snow
Lead Artist & Creative Director
Jess X. Snow is a queer asian-canadian filmmaker, public artist and pushcart-nominated poet. A MFA student at NYU Grad Film, her film and new media work has been supported by the Tribeca Film Institute, Adobe and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific Center. Her public art has appeared on PBS Newshour, The LA Times, and on walls across the country. She is working toward a future where queer, migrant people of color may see themselves heroic on the big screen and walls of the cities they live in.
Tani Ikeda
Lead Artist & Executive Producer
Tani Ikeda is an Emmy winning director who creates narratives, documentaries, music videos, and commercial films. She was recently selected as one of Sundance's intensive screenwriting lab's fellows, a and was a recipient of the SF Film Rainin Grant and was also named one of Film Independent’s Project: Involve Directors Fellow. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Film Production from USC and currently resides in Los Angeles. She is the founder of Survivor Love Letter.
Layqa Nuna Yawar
Additional Lead Artist
Layqa Nuna Yawar is a migrant artist, muralist and educator born in Ecuador and based out of Newark, USA. His public art has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, NBC Latino amongst others. Recently named an Open Society Foundations Moving Walls Fellow, his large scale murals, paintings and projects question injustice, racism and xenophobia, while celebrating cross-cultural identity and migration in order to amplify the silenced narratives of people of color around the Americas and the world.
Kevin Tsukii
Producer
Kevin Tsukii produces projects that interrogate emerging technology, bringing pressing stories and realities to life. Kevin was a technical lead at Nonny de la Peña's VR studio where he crafted award-winning projects for The New York Times, Frontline PBS, and Mozilla, and helped install the first VR project included as part of the Guggenheim's permanent collection. He's currently a producer at the creative agency R/GA. Kevin previously worked at The Los Angeles Times. He is a graduate of the Schools for Journalism and Cinematic Arts at USC.
Meghan McWilliams
Producer
Meghan McWilliams is Associate Director and Producer at Emblematic Group where she pushes the medium of XR forward by producing groundbreaking experiences with a focus on creating a social impact through emerging technologies.
Evan Pachon
Technical Artist
Best known for his video installation and New Media practices, SUNY Purchase student Evan Pachon often finds himself creating work within a large variety of mediums. With a more recent focus on augmented reality alongside experimental virtual environments, Evan aims to discuss the dichotomy between memory and digital culture.