IN SHORT HESTIA
S hot over two days at Sony’s a spacecraft en route to Mars – charts a woman’s final minutes and how she chooses to spend them. A human- centred story with a sci-fi twist, the 12-minute short – produced by Red Robin Films using virtual production – received full support from Sony’s Chris Couzens, who initially contacted writer-directors Kieran Lowley and Isobel Drane. “He sent us a WhatsApp from an Digital Media Production Centre Europe (DMPCE), Hestia – set on unknown number and it felt like a scam; it was like, ‘Hello, my name is Chris, I work for Sony,’” Drane laughs. “Then, he explained the DMPCE space, the new VERONA and the BURANO. He asked if we wanted to do a couple of shots against the [LED] wall, to test it out. We turned up with a short film called Hestia and were like; ‘How about we do this?’ And they bit.” WRITTEN IN THE STARS Once Lowley and Drane secured Sony’s blessing, they then had seven weeks to assemble a crew, find their actors and
IN SHORT
An outer-space short shot with Sony’s virtual production toolkit, Hestia sets the standard for how technology can serve a creative vision
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