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
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
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