Immersive Fiction Lab

XR isn’t funny. Time to fix that. The Immersive Fiction Lab is a talent development programme for creatives exploring humour in XR. During a 6 day “hothouse” lab, participants will evolve their project concepts into market ready proposals and deepen their understanding of how humour works in XR storytelling. Along the way, participants will be carefully guided by a team of expert industry mentors from XR, comedy, theatre, film, games and scriptwriting. The lab will focus on developing existing projects, but will equip participants with Crossover’s adaptable toolkit of processes that can also be used into the future. Participants will leave the programme equipped to seek financing for their project with a carefully honed pitch and proposal document to accompany a well developed concept that finds the funny in XR. The programme will culminate in a closed pitch to an invited audience of funders, producers, exhibitors, market organisers and distributors during an online session to receive feedback and launch their projects as they go on to seek prototype or project funding. This programme is open to writers, directors, artists or producers who are developing their first, second or third immersive fiction experience. Applicants must apply with a project that sits within a category of genre fiction such as: comedy, sci-fi, horror, crime, ect. It is essential that the project uses humour within its narrative. Immersive Fiction Lab is delivered by Crossover Labs, through the BFI Creative Challenge Fund, made possible with National Lottery funding.