Touching the Sky VR
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Nominees and Awards
- ★ 2026 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival - Winner
- ★ 2025 Australian XR Festival- winner
- ★ 2025 QLD XR Festival - winner
Synopsis
Touching the Sky takes the viewer on a voyage of human powered flight like never before - following wingsuit base jumpers in the European Alps, and a paragliding team across the Himalayas in Pakistan.
Presented in live action format where the viewer feels that they are following the story in real time, wingsuit and base jump athletes Fred Fugen and Vincent Cotte take the viewer on two exhilarating wingsuit flights in the Italian Dolomites. Meeting up with Aaron Durogati, a long term colleague of Fred’s, we then follow Aaron and his partner Matthias Weger as they take the adventure to the next level and the Himalayas. The aim is simple: to get as high and deep in to the highest mountains on the planet.
Team
Director
Jonathan GRIFFITH
Jon specialises in award winning Virtual Reality films, bringing cutting edge human adventure to your headset. Producer of Touching the Sky, The Soloist VR and Everest VR as well as other leading VR titles, he has won dozens of international film awards including Cannes, Emmy, and Bafta.
His client list include Meta (Oculus), Google, Microsoft, RedBull Media House, Turkish Airlines, BBC and many others. Described by Meta CEO Andrew Bosworth as a “new media pioneer” and at the “forefront” of VR, jon always strives to break the boundaries of what has been done before in VR. Rather than forcing traditional media in to a headset he digs deeper and creates films and experiences made for VR – ones that utilise the full power of immersion.
