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Apr 14, 2023 · I studied Law because I wanted to be there for the people that needed real justice. Later worked in the film industry as a producer for over a decade and lastly, became a director and created...
- Changing The World: The Challenges of Stay Alive My Son
- Developing An Interactive Documentary Work
- How to Decide on The Intensity of An Interactive Experience
- What’s Next?
Victoria Bousis – I have an atypical background: I started working as a prosecutor at the Attorney General’s Office in Chicago when I was in my early 20’s. I wanted to change the world, to defend people and their rights, to give the voice to the voiceless. And finally, that’s what led me to film. In politics, you quickly understand the limits of yo...
V. B. – I met the author of STAY ALIVE, MY SON, Pin Yathay, who currently resides in France, to interview him about the book, events that transpired after the book, and to discuss adapting his book into a virtual reality experience. With friends who had developed BENJAMIN BUTTON’s ageing technology, we showed him a picture of his older son (a pictu...
V. B. – We asked ourselves a lot of questions about the interactivity of the experience. The fact of using a real-time game engine, game mechanics, was a revolution for me, coming from the cinema. But it was also an incredible field of possibility! I also did a lot of research, but in the end I kept two essential narrative criteria. On the one hand...
V. B. – I’m eager to continue pushing the medium forward by blurring the lines between cinema and video games to bring powerful stories of ordinary people becoming extraordinary through life’s circumstances. I am currently negotiating a few scripts and books for my next project! It’s all very exciting! But there are technical limitations that still...
Apr 27, 2024 · Prosecutor-turned-immersive storyteller Victoria Bousis has seen the often-separate strands of her professional lives converge in unexpected ways as she’s toured her recent project, “Stay...
Director, writer and producer of "Stay Alive, My Son," Victoria Bousis joined Variety TV FYC Fest for an exclusive conversation discussing the making of...
Sep 26, 2022 · At the Venice Film Festival, we discovered the extraordinary story of Pin Yathay and spoke with the director about the immersive experience
Oct 9, 2020 · And here’s the last scoop from the VIFF Immersed Artist Alert Series: Victoria Bousis shared ‘Stay Alive My Son’ at VIFF Immersed 2020. In “this Cannes...
Based on the internationally celebrated memoirs of Pin Yathay, Tu vivras, mon fils, the immersive, mythical, and cinematic experience puts the player into the shoes of a Cambodian genocide survivor and father.
