Media
See below for media releases and coverage for New Canvas and our projects. For more information or media assets, please contact Wadooah Wali.
Media Releases
‘Beyond the Ban’ – When Brooklyn Was Queer Hits Major Milestones + Watch Virtual Showcase Replay on YT – 3rd March 2025
Tapping Into History: Michela Marino Lerman & Matt McCorkle Bring Movement, Rhythm & Immersive Sound to When Brooklyn Was Queer – 20th Feb 2025
New for the Meta Quest Platform, New Canvas Releases Remastered Atlas Obscura VR App – 11th Dec 2024
More Momentum For ‘When Brooklyn Was Queer’ Immersive Production – 29th Oct 2024
New Canvas, Partners with MA Productions & Elliot Page & PAGEBOY Productions to develop a VR Adaptation When Brooklyn Was Queer – 6th March 2024
Kinetic Energy Entertainment Joins New Canvas as Strategic Advisors – 16th Jan 2024
New Canvas Receives Screen Australia Support for Season 2 of Its Acclaimed VR Series Lustration – 23rd Nov 2023
New Canvas’ VR Series Lustration Nominated for Best Narrative Experience in the Metaverse category for the 27th Annual Webby Award – 4th April 2023
New Canvas collabs with Polygon Studios on ‘LUSTRATION’ NFT launch at Venice Immersive – 1st Sept 2022
XR series Lustration continues impressive festival and award streak – 15th August 2022
Lustration Episode 4 World Premiere at SeriesFest 2022 – 5th May 2022
XR studio New Canvas’ Lustration Episode 2 available on Meta’s Oculus TV – 8th April 2022
Lustration Episode 1 now available on Meta’s Oculus TV – 25th March 2022
Lustration selected to World Premiere at SXSW 2022 – 2nd Feb 2022
Wadooah Wali joins New Canvas as CSO – 19th Jan 2022
Lustration series production announced – 15th Sept 2021
New studio, New Canvas launches – 15th Dec 2020
Media Coverage
Rediscovering Ourselves Through Immersive Productions: Conversation With Cameron Kostopoulos, Paula Orlando, Rocio Pichirili, Wadooah Wali And Yasmin Elayat – XRMust Sept 2024
Elliot Page to produce virtual reality series about Brooklyn’s queer history – NBC News, March 2024
Elliot Page to Executive Produce a Series on Brooklyn’s Fascinating Queer History—in VR – The Mary Sue, March 2024
Elliot Page Is Producing a VR Experience About Brooklyn’s Queer History – Them.us, March 2024
Elliot Page Dives into VR: Bringing Brooklyn’s Queer Past to Life – Gayety, March 2024
Elliot Page Boards New Canvas VR Adaptation of Hugh Ryan’s ‘When Brooklyn Was Queer’ – Variety, March 2024
New Canvas To Adapt Lgbtq+ Best-Seller When Brooklyn Was Queer In Virtual Reality – XRMust, March 2024
New Canvas Unveils VR Adaptation of Hugh Ryan’s Book ‘When Brooklyn Was Queer‘ – Blockster, March 2024
Elliot Page to partner with New Canvas on VR series ‘When Brooklyn Was Queer’ – InsideFilm.com.au, March 2024
Examining the Notions of Truth in Our Society via VR – SIGGRAPH, Feb 2024
SCREEN AUSTRALIA invests in 31 new creative ventures – TVBlackBox, Nov 2023
New Canvas Receives Screen Australia Support for Season 2 of Its Acclaimed VR Series ‘Lustration’ – Blockster, Nov 2023
New Canvas’ ‘Lustration’ nominated for Webby Award – InsideFilm.com.au, April 2023
Interview with Co-Founder & CEO Nathan Anderson of New Canvas – Metamandrill.com, Feb 2023
Film3: New Kids On The Blockchain – InsideFilm (#208), Oct-Nov 2022
New Canvas to Launch Lustration NFT and Social Token on Polygon – Polygon.technology, Sept 2022
Future of metaverse entertainment: Concerts, theme parks and movies in the virtual world – Lifestyle Asia, August 2022
‘Transformative period’ for emerging technologies in storytelling – InsideFilm.com.au, July 2022
Peter Hegedus’ ‘Sorella’s Story’, Ryan Griffen’s ‘Lustration’ selected for Venice Immersive – InsideFilm.com.au, July 2022
Welcome to The Between: behind the scenes of VR animated series ‘Lustration’ – Oculus Blog, June 2022
Comics in VR! Games For Change! Halloween in July! (Podcast) – NoProscenium, June 2022
Review – LUSTRATION: connecting mainstream audiences to immersive stories – XRMust, June 2022
Lustration: Meta’s new VR film is a hand-drawn visual force – Mixed-News.com, May 2022
“Lustration” Afterlife Detective VR Episodic Series Explores Multi-Perspective Narratives – Voices of VR, May 2022
Reality bytes: How Caitlin Lomax traversed from modelling to the metaverse – Harpers Bazaar, May 2022
‘Lustration’ Animates Afterlife Noir Graphic Novel on Quest (Q&A) – NoProscenium, April 2022
“Community as a big part of storytelling” – LUSTRATION VR – XR Must, March 2022
A historic contingent of seven Australian projects selected for SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST FESTIVAL 2022 – TVBlackBox, Feb 2022
Back to Back’s ‘Shadow’ and six other Australian films at SXSW – Screenhub, Feb 2022
SXSW 2022 films line up schedule – Deadline.com, Feb 2022
Kevin Conroy, Shakira Clanton among voice cast for Ryan Griffen’s ‘Lustration VR’ – InsideFilm.com.au, Sept 2021
Kevin Conroy, Shakira Clanton among voice cast for Ryan Griffen’s ‘Lustration VR’ – DaysTech, Sept 2021
Nathan Anderson launches VR entertainment studio, New Canvas – InsideFilm.com.au, Dec 2020