Gemini

2018

In a very near future two VR gamers coincidentally meet in real life and through their interactions expose the dark side of virtual reality and gaming.

Crew & Cast

DIRECTOR(S) / Mily Mumford
WRITER(S) / Mily Mumford
PRODUCER(S) / Phil Planta, Mayumi Yoshida
FEATURING / Donna Benedicto, Cody Kearsley

Filmmaker Bios

Mily Mumford

Director / Writer

Mily Mumford is a writer/director with nine years of experience creating for the stage, who is now transitioning into the film world. She delights in the intersections between art, science and popular culture. In addition to being a multidisciplinary artist she is a graduate student at Simon Fraser University in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology where she researches neurotechnology, AI systems and robotics.

Phil Planta

Producer

Phil Planta is producer, filmmaker and VFX Artist. Phil, a graduate of Vancouver Film School and Focal Point School of Photography, has a background in photography and multimedia with expertise in 3D Animation/Visual FX. He has worked as a VFX artist for ‘Once Upon a Time’, ‘Falling Skies’, JJ Abrams ‘Revolution,’ and as VFX DoP ‘Twilight – Breaking Dawn – Part 2’, and Tim Burton’s “Big Eyes”. Mr. Planta was also Data Wrangler on the set of ‘‘Red 2’ starring Bruce Willis. Most recently he was one of the VFX Supervisors on the upcoming short film “Cargo”. He produced the short films “Contaminant”(2013) and “Final Wishes”(2016) both winning first place at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival MAMM. Mr. Planta was Hot Shot Shorts Finalist, he produced the the 1st Place Telus Storyhive short “Akashi” which also won at the NBC Universal Short Film Festival.

Mayumi Yoshida

Producer

Mayumi Yoshida is from Tokyo, Japan. In 2010 she moved to Vancouver to pursue her acting career in North America. Her role as Crown Princess (The Man in The High Castle) received a 2016 UBCP/ACTRA’s Emerging Actor nomination. She made her debut as a filmmaker with Akashi-あかし-(2017) which she wrote, produced, directed, and starred in. The short film is based on her play NeOn-ね音- which was part of the 2016 Vancouver Fringe Festival and 2017’s rEvolver Festival. Mayumi won Best Actor award at the 2017 East Van Showcase, TELUS Storyhive 2016 Digital Shorts Grand Prize in BC, Outstanding Writer Award at NBC Universal Short Film Festival for her work on Akashi-あかし-.

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