Director's Bio-Filmography:
Francesca Panetta - VR Director
Francesca Panetta is a multi-award winning digital artist and journalist. She leads the
Guardian’s virtual reality studio. 6x9: a virtual experience of solitary connement
was
the Guardian’s rst
VR piece and won attention around the world as an exemplary case of
story and form. The piece has toured 70 festivals and conferences including the White
House, and used by campaigners and mitigation specialists in the US to show the
psychological damage caused by isolation. Francesca’s work at the Guardian has focused
on innovation and storytelling. As special projects editor she commissioned and directed
agship
pieces such as Firestorm, The Shirt on Your Back, the View from the Shard, The
First World War: an interactive multilingual interactive documentary. In addition to her
work at the Guardian, Francesca works as a sound artist specialising in binaural sound
design and non-linear storytelling, usually in physical landscapes.
Nicole Jackson - VR Director
Nicole Jackson has been a Guardian journalist for over a decade. She joined the Guardian’s
newly formed VR studio as a producer / director in 2016. Prior to this she was a
commissioner and producer on the Guardian's multimedia team. She set up and produced
a number of series including Comment is Free, producing the Guardian's most watched
video of the year in 2015 and Watch Me Date, a series that sent strangers on blind dates
wearing Google Glass. Prior to multimedia, Nicole was the features editor of Weekend, the
Guardian's agship
Saturday magazine, and a commissioning editor on g2, the
Guardian's award-winning daily news features supplement.
Director's / Curator's Statement:
FIRST IMPRESSIONS: a virtual experience of the rst
year of life