-- Since its launch 16 years ago, the Sundance Film Festival's New Frontier has served as a showcase for dynamic, innovative work at the crossroads of film, art, and technology - but this year, we're doing things a bit differently.
We've reimagined New Frontier for 2022 to not only bring visionary, groundbreaking projects online to a global audience, but also to provide a party venue for all ticketholders to gather and celebrate the films premiering at the festival. New Frontier has updated The Spaceship - a digital experience that invites you to teleport your body and launch into outer space.
In avatar form, you can reach beyond the boundaries of space and time to experience this year's lineup of thought-provoking projects, attend screenings, and gather for premiere parties and filmmaker receptions in real time.
We've highlighted the amazing New Frontier lineup and the Spaceship before, but now we're here to tell you how it will work
Getting Set Up
To access this year's New Frontier program, you'll need to create an account on the Festival's online screening platform. From there, you'll need to purchase an Explorer Pass, which will provide you with unlimited access to New Frontier from Thursday, January 20, to Friday, January 28, no matter which corner of the globe you find yourself. You can buy an Explorer Pass for just $50. Explorer Pass is part of all packages. Curious about our tech specs? Check out our blog post for the details.
Build Your Avatar
Open up a separate tab in Chrome (recommended), and go to newfrontier.sundance.org to start your journey into space. Be sure to first go to your browser settings and allow microphone, camera, pop-ups, and downloads, which are necessary to interact on the platform.
After logging in, you will land in your very own Space Garden, your home base to access all of the unique venues on The Spaceship. Here is where you will set up your avatar - a simple process of uploading a photo of yourself and choosing colors for your avatar body.
Practice moving around in your avatar body, learning how to move around with the arrow keys (or the WASD keys) on your keyboard. Your space bar will make you JUMP, and the camera POV lets you change your perspective.
Once you feel ready, step into the venue of your choice: Cinema House, Film Party, or Gallery.
When you approach other avatars, you can start a chat bubble to enter conversation. To enter into a chat, move your avatar close to someone and press yes when asked if you want to enter a chat. Up to six people can fit into a chat bubble. If you can't see faces, just move your avatar around, or use the right/left arrows to circle around until you can see faces.
The Attendees button (on the right side panel) will show you who is in the room. You can text chat with anyone there, whether you can see their avatar or not.
Now you can make full use of this easy-to-use interactive map of The Spaceship.
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