ABSTRACT
Paisley Smith is a Canadian filmmaker and virtual reality creator from Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the creator of Unceded Territories, an interactive VR film with artist and activist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival 2019. She also created “Homestay,” an interactive VR documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Homestay is the recipient of “Best XR” for Change at the Games for Change Festival 2019. She is a 2021 Civic Media Fellow with the Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC. During these times of extraordinary change, she is using her worldbuilding skills to design solutions for deep, meaningful connections and to imagine our Feminist Future. She lives and works in Los Angeles. The magic that emanated from “Through the Eyes Of” came not just from our freedom to go out there and create, but also the assignment itself.
