RIGHT TO PRAY, a documentary film by filmmaker Khushboo Ranka in the new medium of Virtual Reality (VR), will premiere at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival 2016 (TIFF). Produced by Memesys Culture Lab, a cinema and new media studio founded by filmmaker Anand Gandhi, the film is part of the first batch of VR documentaries made in India. The VR experience will premiere next month at what has been described as the most important and influential film festival in the world.
Right to Pray is one of the 5 Virtual Reality Film’s selected to be screened at TIFF. The other 4 entries are from United States of America and Canada. The film also marks to be India’s first ever VR film and one of the first VR narrative documentaries in the world.
While the film itself is brief, clocking in at just over eight minutes, its director, Mumbai-based Khushboo Ranka, described its arrival at TIFF as “a big deal”.
