United Nations has acquired India's first documentary in VR 'Cost of Coal' for its United Nations Virtual Reality Application (UNVR).
United Nations has acquired India's first documentary in VR 'Cost of Coal' for its United Nations Virtual Reality Application (UNVR).
This documentary is based in Korba, Chhattisgarh, where about a fourth of India’s coal is mined, leaving the land ravaged, air and water contaminated and lives disrupted.
People behind this documentary are Anand Gandhi, best known for his directorial “Ship of Theseus”, and his team at Memesys Culture Lab,helmed by filmmaker Faiza Khan.
“We (UN) have acquired ‘Cost of Coal’ and put it on the UNVR platform. It’s the first Indian film that gets that honour,” Gabo Arora, Creative Director and Senior Advisor at the United Nations, told IANS in a group interaction.
“I am very excited about it . We are also doing a VR piece that we are shooting with actor Irrfan Khan. It is fiction. We will start shooting soon.” said Gandhi, who was also one among the panelists,
