AR, VR, free access web app, fiction, documentary, animation, video games – that's what France tv StoryLab's co-productions offer. StoryLab is the immersive programs label of France Télévisions, an entity that allows you to see reality like you've never seen it before!
Today, new technologies and associated devices offer the opportunity to explore unknown narrative territories and new imaginary worlds. Because it's always about telling stories. The aim of the France.tv StoryLab is to help you explore these territories, to show you reality as you've never seen it before, to put you at the heart of immersive, engaging and high-impact stories, to give you unforgettable, emotionally-charged experiences, to make you dream with your eyes wide open! Because if television is about watching, cinema about contemplating, immersive is about living. Living incredible stories.
While television is about watching, cinema is about contemplating, immersive experiences are about experiencing. In other words, they allow you to live incredible stories.
A must-experience
Fight Back VR
VR, suitable for all ages from 12 and up / Lengh : 40-45 minutes
Blurring the lines between documentary and video game, Céline Tricart's latest work, which competed in the official competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2022, serves as an educational tool for empowering women. Through a dreamlike virtual reality quest, featuring illustrious pioneering women who have been overlooked in common history, you will learn self-defense techniques using a Quest2 headset equipped with hand-tracking, a hand-detecting technology that eliminates the need for gaming controllers. This technology allows for complete immersion in the experience and promotes muscle memory to retain and ingrain the learned gestures in Fight Back VR.
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Credits: Writing and directing: Céline Tricart / Designer: Maëlle Holtzer / Music: Julie Roué / Produced by Marie Blondiaux & Céline Tricart / Production: France Télévisions, Red Corner & Lucid Dreams Productions
Suppliques Stories
Mobile app, website, France Télévisions documentary, and Lumni modules / Suitable for all ages
The "suppliques" are thousands of letters sent by Jewish families and their loved ones to the General Commission for Jewish Questions or directly to Marshal Pétain during the Second World War. With the aim of introducing a generation of smartphone users to these supplications, Suppliques Stories offers a fictional adaptation of the letters in the form of digital conversations. These conversations are enriched with hyperlinks that provide details on key concepts and bring to life specific and well-documented biographical elements through handwritten letters that are also present in the experience.
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Credits: Direction: Andrès Jarach / Writing: Julie Bertin, Jade Herbulot, Andrés Jarach, Laurent Joly / Production: France Télévisions, La Générale de Production
BiblioQuête
AR, suitable for all ages from 8 and up / Lengh : 20-30 minutes
In this first chapter of BiblioQuête, written by Gordon and Andrès Jarach with illustrations by Olivier Tallec, children aged 8 to 12 are invited to discover the books that have shaped the imagination of Timothée de Fombelle, the author of Tobie Lolness, which has been adapted into an animated series for France Télévisions. This augmented reality literary quest takes the form of a treasure hunt in classic and contemporary works of our literary heritage. Playable alone or with others using a smartphone or tablet, and also available in libraries, the work includes animated sequences that come to life within the books themselves. Designed to encourage children to read, BiblioQuête was a winner of France 2030.
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Credits: Writing: Andrès Jarach and Gordon / Illustration: Olivier Tallec / Production: France Télévisions & Red Corner / Supported by the City of Paris
Coming soon
Empereur
Available in autumn 2023 / Interactive VR, suitable for ages 13 and up / Lengh: 35 minutes
In Empereur, aphasia is presented as a strange and surreal country that users can physically and emotionally enter through virtual reality. Alongside his daughter, we travel through the mental space of a father suffering from aphasia, imagined as a hand-drawn monochromatic landscape, as she seeks to discover more about his inner self, now obscured by the disease. Despite the difficulty of the subject matter, the experience, which has already won an award at the 80th Venice Film Festival, offers a poetic and empathetic framework.
Credits: Creators: Marion Burger and Ilian Cohen / Production: France Télévisions, Atlas V and Reynard Films
JailBirds
Available in November 2023 / VR and short film, suitable for ages 13 and up.
JAILBIRDS is a fantastic tale adapted from the visual universe of Philippe FOERSTER. The story is set alternately in a nightmarish prison and beautiful landscapes, immersing us in a bittersweet fable about human freedom. A prisoner escapes every night as his eyes magically detach from his body and explore the world that is physically inaccessible to him.
Blood Speaks
Available in spring 2024 / VR and short film, suitable for ages 16 and up.
In this new virtual reality work, you will follow Tara, a London teenager who faces bullying at school due to her periods. She meets Maya, a young Nepalese woman who becomes a superhero with powers bestowed upon her by her menstruation. This original and contemporary fictional virtual reality experience aims to break taboos and eliminate the shame surrounding young adolescent girls.
Credits: Writing and direction: Poulomi Basun and CJ Clarke / Productions: France Télévisions, Meta VR for Good, Floréal, and JAPC
