‘Kidnapped in Vostok,’ ‘Glimpse’ Lead Brand New Acquisitions Slate for Immersive Distributor Astrea (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comBen Croll A Coenesque caper-gone-wrong and an interactive mother-daughter saga told in bite-size form, XR titles “Kidnapped in Vostok” (pictured) and “Rock, Paper, Scissors” are among the 17 projects leading distributor Astrea picked up in a recent bout of acquisitions.
Both titles are playing in competition at this year’s NewImages Festival, while other recent Astrea pickups include the Stanislaw Lem inspired short “Cosmogonic,” the award winning interactive film “Glimpse” from Oscar winner Benjamin Cleary and VR designer Michael O’Connor, and all five episodes of the “Missing Pictures” series, in which filmmakers Abel Ferrara, Tsai Ming-Liang, Catherine Hardwicke, Lee Myung-Se and Naomi Kawase reflect on the dream projects they could never get made.
Rounding out the list of recent pickups are “Child of Empire,” “Evolver,” “Gondwana,” “The Mutek Collection,” “Norn Vol. 1: The Nine Daughters of Ran” and “On the Morning You Wake.” The recent round of acquisitions caps a period of breakneck growth for the young distributor.
Launched in 2021 as the publishing and international sales branch of Atlas V, Astrea now floats in complementary orbit, handling international deals for a wide variety of interactive narrative projects from as many global production houses.
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