Partners

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UK Research and Innovation, the Academy develops cutting-edge creative training and research programmes, to ensure the UK creative workforce is the most skilled in the world in the use of virtual, augmented and real-time production technology for immersive storytelling.

Founded in 1933, the BFI is a registered charity governed by Royal Charter with the mission to support creativity and actively seek out the next generation of UK storytellers.

Combining the strengths of the UK’s most-commissioned production company and a world-class distributor, they are an unrivalled creator of - and investor in - UK programmes reaching audiences around the world.

With studios in London, LA and Sydney, they create meaningful stories and creatively innovative experiences that positively add to the cultural conversation.

Specialising in design-led cultural projects for Museums, Galleries and Brand Experience Centres, they also create motion graphics and animated content for television and create ambitious online digital projects that are experienced across web, social and mobile.

Through impactful programmes, tireless campaigning, excellent networks and power to influence, challenge and make change happen The Reading Agency helps over 1.9 million people of all ages, and their vision is a world where everyone is reading their way to a better life.

They are highly collaborative, driven by an obsession for detail and a passion for legacy.

They make history, current-affairs, specialist factual and travel and adventure programmes.

StoryFutures fuels innovation and growth in immersive storytelling by sharing cutting-edge research with creative SMEs in the ‘Gateway Cluster and Greater London’.

Creators of Lightship, Niantic have built the world’s only planet-scale AR platform for current and future generations of AR hardware.