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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

More Momentum For ‘When Brooklyn Was Queer’ Immersive Production – 29th Oct 2024

When Brooklyn Was Queer‘ One of 16 Immersive Projects Selected For The 2024 Venice Bridge Gap-Financing Market at The 81st Venice International Film Festival – 23rd July 2024

XR Studio New Canvas, MA Productions and PAGEBOY Productions Announce Emmy® Award-Winning, Immersive Director and Extolled Writer & Playwright for its Bold VR Adaptation of ‘When Brooklyn Was Queer – 20th March 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