Private Project

The Holy City

Transport yourself to the world's spiritual epicentre in this engaging sensory narrative experience built using stunning photogrammetrical scans of Jerusalem. The Holy City utilizes a series of challenging interactive games in room-scale environments to help nurture empathy and understanding amongst the Abrahamic cultures and religions that co-inhabit the city.

  • Nimrod Shanit
    Director
    The Ramadan Cannon of Jerusalem, Saving Children, Surviving terrorism
  • Timur Musabay
    Director
    The Golden Glove, Sharkwater
  • Nimrod Shanit
    Writer
    The Ramadan Cannon of Jerusalem, Saving Children, Surviving terrorism
  • Nimrod Shanit
    Producer
    Once Upon a Sea, Best Unkept Secret, Battle for the Belt, Trois Mariages et un coup de foudre
  • Sean Thomas Evans
    Producer
    Sharkwater, The Golden Glove, Mind Body Soul
  • Father Samuel Aghoyan
    Key Cast
  • Ibrahim Abu El Hawe
    Key Cast
  • Baruch Brandwin
    Key Cast
  • Yafit Reuveny
    Key Cast
  • Victoria Braverman
    Key Cast
    "Orb guide"
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    Religion, anthropolgy, exploration, gamified, social
  • Runtime:
    30 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    June 30, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    1,100,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Israel, Palestine, State of
  • Language:
    Arabic, English, Hebrew
  • Shooting Format:
    Stereo 360, 3D photogrammtery
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Stereopsia
    Brussels
    Belgium
    December 13, 2019
    Belgian
    Lumiere Award for Best Educational VR
  • Raindance Film Festival
    Lonodn
    United Kingdom
    September 29, 2019
    UK premiere
  • Cannes XR
    Cannes
    France
    May 15, 2019
  • FIVARS
    Toronto
    Canada
    September 14, 2019
    Canadian
  • Leipzig Dok
    Leipzig
    Germany
    October 31, 2019
    German
  • Byron Bay Film festival
    Byron Bay
    Australia
    October 15, 2019
    Australian
    Best documentary VR
Distribution Information
  • Holy City VR
    Country: Canada
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Nimrod Shanit, Timur Musabay

Producer and director of blimey, focused on developing and producing TV, theatrical released and virtual reality documentaries and fiction films. In the past produced numerous documentaries for local and international broadcasters and film funds.

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Director Statement

Through cultivating understanding, this extremely powerful tool to eliciting empathy supports multiculturalism and diversity initiatives, gives visitors a broader understanding of pluralism and a tool to explore our fundamental similarities, promoting comparable virtues in Jerusalem.

The Holy City hopes to restore the majesty of the unique multiculturalism that Jerusalem offers and give access to rituals and sites that few are exposed to. Through this cultural exposure, the hope is that the visitor will see beyond the narrow strokes of racial, social prejudice and learn to appreciate every person regardless of his religion, gender or race.