I was an arts and tradition leader this 12 months at Davos, where they showcased a number of the VR work to the delegates. I met Tim Jones, who was Entrepreneur of the Year in 2015 for the Schwab Foundation, and is now [CEO] of an organization known as Artscape in Toronto. He watched Clouds Over Sidra and mentioned: “With all these refugees coming into Canada, what if we constructed some sort of program where refugees can kind of lead screenings and use VR as a form of approach to construct understanding donation and charity empathy between host communities and refugees.” Because there’s growing xenophobia and there have been some hate crimes that were occurring, so in rather a lot of how, his concept was: If more and more folks saw this movie, they’d actually understand the place these persons are coming from.
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