Tribeca Festival Games Official Selections revealed

I seriously need to hop on a train and go north to see this. Anyway, check out the goods below. 

GAMES
Attendees will have a chance to experience playable hands-on demos with the 2022 Tribeca Festival Games Official Selections lineup – both in-person and via digital experiences from June 11-19 – which includes:

• American Arcadia

• As Dusk Falls

• The Cub

• Cuphead – The Delicious Last Course

• IMMORTALITY

• OXENFREE II: Lost Signals

• A Plague Tale: Requiem

• Thirsty Suitors

• Venba

Games Gallery at Spring Studios (50 Varick Street) – Those attending the Festival in person will be the first to experience a playable Games Gallery featuring demos, art, and artifacts for this year’s selections, hosted at Tribeca Festival’s hub. Tickets can be purchased for $20.

• In-person attendees can check out a special Games event, Sam Barlow Interactive Playthrough of IMMORTALITY, where they will be able to watch renowned game creator Sam Barlow (Her Story, Telling Lies) perform a live playthrough of his newest interactive trilogy, IMMORTALITY and dive into the film influences behind his current project and learn more about the mysterious legend of Marissa Marcel. Free with a ticket.

• In addition, attendees can check out a special Tribeca Talks: Master Class with the team at Epic on The Matrix Awakens and real-time filmmaking with Unreal Engine 5. Free with ticket.

Tribeca Talks: Master Class: The Matrix Awakens – Revolutionary Real-Time Filmmaking with Epic Games

Date/Time: Thursday, June 9 at 3:00 PM

Location: School of Visual Arts (SVA)

Witness the future of filmmaking – interactive cinema in a real-time game engine. Join Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri, Epic Games’ Art Director Jerome Platteaux, and Colin Benoit, Cinematic Artist at Epic Games, as they take you through the making of The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience and demonstrate live filming in this iconic simulation, merging art forms and technology to trailblaze a new way of filmmaking.

Parsec Demos – Tribeca is once again offering digital experiences for global audiences powered by Parsec. To book a demo, attendees can visit tribecafilm.com/games to select a demo and time slot during the Festival. Tickets are available for $5 to play up to (3) game demos.

More information on this year’s selections can be found at tribecafilm.com/games.

IMMERSIVE
Three categories of immersive selections (Main Competition, New Voices, and Best of Season) are part of Tribeca this year, running from June 10-19. For those attending the Festival in-person, the immersive exhibition at Spring Studios (50 Varick Street) will feature a selection of experiences and installations from all three categories. Outdoor immersive installations are also located at various destinations throughout New York City. Tickets are available starting at $70.

For at-home audiences, immersive experiences can be accessed via a virtual exhibition at The Museum of Other Realities, designed by Dani Bittman, available for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index and Windows Mixed Reality users. Oculus Quest users can access using Oculus Link or the Virtual Desktop application that connects a wireless headset with a VR-ready PC. Tickets are available for $5.

Please find a full list of this year’s Immersive lineup and their availability below:

• Main Competition

  • Evolver – In-person – Location to be announced

  • Intravene – In-person at Spring Studios and Virtual exhibition

  • Kubo Walks the City – In-person at Spring Studios

  • Missing Pictures Ep. 3-5 – In-person at Spring Studios

  • Mushroom Cloud NYC / RISE – In-person at Pier 25

  • Please, Believe Me – In-person at Spring Studios and Virtual exhibition

  • ReachYou – In-person at Spring Studios and Virtual exhibition

  • Zanzibar: Trouble in Paradise – In-person at Spring Studios

• New Voices Competition

  • Emerging Radiance: Honoring the Nikkei Farmers of Bellevue – In-person at Spring Studios and Virtual exhibition

  • Iago, A Green Eyed Monster – In-person at Spring Studios and Virtual exhibition

  • LGBTQ+ VR Museum – In-person at Spring Studios and Virtual exhibition

  • LIMBOTOPIA – Virtual exhibition

  • Mescaform Hill: The Missing Five – Virtual exhibition

  • Planet City VR – In-person at Spring Studios and Virtual exhibition

  • Platisapiens – In-person at Spring Studios

  • The Black Movement Library – Movement Portraits – In-person at Spring Studios, Virtual exhibition and Midnight Moment Program in Times Square in June

  • This is Not a Ceremony – In-person at Spring Studios and Virtual exhibition

• Best of Season

  • Container – In-person at Spring Studios and Virtual exhibition

  • End of Night – Virtual exhibition

  • Exhibition A – Virtual exhibition

  • Glimpse – Virtual exhibition

More information on this year’s selections can be found at tribecafilm.com/immersive.