Actress and producer Maria Bello is bringing a virtual-reality project to UCLA for a limited run.
Dean Teri Schwartz and the Department of Theater at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television present a Special Event: Maria Bello’s The Sun Ladies Vr Project will be free and open to the public.
The Bello-produced project, which premiered last January at Sundance, is an immersive, seven-minute, live-action documentary embedding theatergoers with a troop of Yazidi women fighters. After Isis solders invaded the Yazidi community of Sinjar, killing all the men and taking the women and girls as sex slaves, a group of women escaped and started a fighting unit called the Sun Ladies.
The live-action sequence is directed by UCLA Tft M.F.A. directing candidate Aya Saleh and features Ava Lalezarzadeh, Taji Senior and Jessica Toltzis, student actors from the Department of Theater at UCLA. The Vr sequence is...
Dean Teri Schwartz and the Department of Theater at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television present a Special Event: Maria Bello’s The Sun Ladies Vr Project will be free and open to the public.
The Bello-produced project, which premiered last January at Sundance, is an immersive, seven-minute, live-action documentary embedding theatergoers with a troop of Yazidi women fighters. After Isis solders invaded the Yazidi community of Sinjar, killing all the men and taking the women and girls as sex slaves, a group of women escaped and started a fighting unit called the Sun Ladies.
The live-action sequence is directed by UCLA Tft M.F.A. directing candidate Aya Saleh and features Ava Lalezarzadeh, Taji Senior and Jessica Toltzis, student actors from the Department of Theater at UCLA. The Vr sequence is...
- 1/3/2019
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
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