Charting New Horizons: Anicca Media's Bold Direction for 2024

Charting New Horizons: Anicca Media's Bold Direction for 2024

As the calendar turns to 2024, it’s time to embrace new beginnings and transformative visions. At Anicca Media, we're thrilled to announce an exciting new direction for our journey in storytelling and positive impact. This year marks a significant pivot, as I blend over two decades of transmedia storytelling with regenerative futures research and consulting.

A Renewed Direction

Our passion for authentic, impactful narratives has always been at the heart of Anicca Media. This year, we're taking a bold leap forward by integrating our storytelling expertise with sustainable and regenerative practices. Our focus is on creating content that not only informs and entertains but also inspires action and fosters deep, meaningful connections with our planet.

Innovative solutions for the immersive tech and media industries are at the forefront of this agenda. We are exploring how virtual reality, interactive platforms, and other advanced mediums can bring stories to life in more engaging and impactful ways. The mission is to create experiences that immerse audiences into the heart of each story, its characters - both human and non-human - making every narrative a journey of discovery and transformation.

Recent Projects

Our recent projects, like 'ecosphere' and ‘Sea of Islands', exemplify our commitment to this new direction. These narratives are not just stories but deeply immersive journeys that invite the audience to partake, feel, and engage. They are testaments to our vision of using storytelling as a tool for empathy, understanding, and action.

Regenerative Futures Consulting

This year, we are also excited to embrace a new venture, combining my extensive experience in transmedia storytelling with a passionate dive into regenerative futures research and consulting. This moves is a testament to a commitment in pioneering sustainable and regenerative solutions within the immersive tech and media industries.

A Glimpse into the Future

As we chart this new course, we're also nurturing a seed of an exciting project - the Floating Stories Lab, a regenerative sailboat studio. This exciting initiative, merging with my family’s adventure media platform Voyage Virage, is a fusion of passion and expertise, where we aim to voyage the world facilitating research, stories, and citizen science to effect better futures. setting sail to capture diverse, untold stories from across the globe.

The Floating Stories Lab is a regenerative sailboat studio by Anicca Media and Voyage Virage, poised to voyage the world facilitating research, stories, and citizen science to effect better futures.

Join Us on This Journey

We invite you to join us on this transformative journey. Whether through short films, documentaries, or interactive experiences, our stories are designed to be catalysts for change. Keep an eye on our blog and social media channels for updates, behind-the-scenes looks, and more information about the Floating Stories Lab.

Together, let's make 2024 a year of impactful stories, sustainable solutions, and regenerative futures. At Anicca Media, every story is an opportunity to inspire, educate, and mobilize.

We're just getting started, and the best is yet to come!

- Angie Richard (Davis)

Behind the scenes video from United Nations screenings of our new VR documentary Sea of Islands

The United Nations Department of Political and Peacekeeping Affairs called upon us to create a new VR documentary on climate security in the South Pacific. The film, Sea of Islands, is currently screening throughout the United Nations, enabling indigenous Fijian community perspectives on the impacts of climate change to be heard by UN member states and decision makers across the world.

The UNDPPA team put together this behind the scenes video from their screening sessions, giving us insight into how the film is being received and how specifically produced VR documentary content can be used to effect change.

Interviewees (in order of appearance):

Fred Sarufa, Permanent Mission of Papua New Guinea, Martin Waehlisch, UN DPPA Innovation Cell, Kimihiro Ishikane, Permanent Mission of Japan, Naoko Takahashi, UN DPPA Innovation Cell, Jeanett Vea, Permanent Mission of Tonga, Zoe Russell, Permanent Mission of New Zealand.

‘Sea of Islands’ is available to watch for free on the ecosphere VR app in Meta Quest VR headsets. Produced by UNDPPA with PHORIA, Anicca Media and Meta Quest.

The Laps Tasmania wins Best Documentary at PAMA 2019

The day before I flew out to Africa, I was up in Paris receiving our award for Best Documentary for The Laps Tasmania at the Paris Art and Movie Awards.

As the universe would have it, it was also the day of the global student climate strikes, and a day when Greta made some of her most powerful statements to date.

I dedicated this award to Greta and all the students out there doing what so many adults are not brave enough to do: push our leaders to take immediate action on climate change.

I believe the reason The Laps is getting so much attention and acclaim this year is that the film is a reminder to all of us that in order to rewild the planet, we need to rewild ourselves. Living simply, in tune with nature and in harmony with all life on Earth is fun and fulfilling, and most importantly, necessary.

The good news is it looks like people out there want to see more Laps. We're working on broadcast deals and funding to make you all a global series.

We don't need a lot to be happy, and as the characters in the film show clearly, helping others and nature are the most fulfilling actions of all.

Watch The Laps Tasmania on iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, VOD, and Garage Films.