Stay Alive, My Son

Tu Vivras, Mon Fils

Based on the internationally acclaimed book and true memoirs of Pin Yathay, Stay Alive My Son is a fantastical and immersive experience whereupon the audience steps into his shoes to relive his inspirational story spanning over 45 years. It emotively begins, when the Player, as Yathay, is shown a photograph of a 6-year-old boy, now digitally aged to 50, causing his realities to collide. Haunted by his inner demons, his guilt surfaces for abandoning his son to escape during the Cambodian genocide. As the viewers experience Yathay’s journey, they discover his reason for living: to reclaim all that he lost and to reunite with his son.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Victoria Bousis

Script: Victoria Bousis

Sound: Marios Niamonitakis, Alexandros Sotiropoulos, Robert Krestovskiy, Darren Bell

Music: T.K. Broderick

Actors: Elodie Yung, Arnold Chun, Kostas Filippoglou, Vincent Rodriguez III, Lucas Sigler, Abraham Sigler

Production: UME Studio, Supernova, Bousis Films

Producers: Victoria Bousis

Co-producers: Jana Landowski, Candice Alejandre, Elina Nastou

Costumes: Deborah Ferguson

Production Design: Victoria Bousis

Executive producer: Elodie Yung

Sets: Kyle Vannoy

Make Up: Nicole Moroni

Narration: Kostas Filippoglou

Format: Virtual Reality

Color: Color

Production Country: Greece, USA

Production Year: 2022

Duration: 55΄

Contact: UME Studiο (hello@ume.ai, www.ume.ai)

Artists: Greg Shynkar, Alexandros Demetriades, George Zekos, Mourad El-Herfa, Mostafa Khalifa, Iris Iordachescu, Yiannis Angouris, Andreas Helmis, Matthew Niederhauser, John Fitzgerald

SCREENINGS 3-13/11/2022 - Old Nursery School, Pier, 15:00-20:00

Victoria Bousis

In her 20s, Victoria started as a career prosecutor for the Attorney General of Illinois to bring justice to the disenfranchised. Later, as a producer for over a decade, she transcended social, political, and geographical barriers to bring powerful messages about the human experience to global audiences with notable films showcased at Venice, TIFF, and Sundance. Victoria followed technological advances and embraced VR and narrative gaming to speak to future generations. In 2018, Victoria earned a Master’s in Media, Technology, and Innovation from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), converging cinema, gaming, and neuroscience to deliver powerful character-driven stories to be experienced by audiences with agency. Stay Alive, My Son is her directorial debut, officially selected in Cannes’ development showcase in 2020. In 2022, she founded UME, a creative and technology-based game company to pioneer the future of storytelling across all mediums and platforms for film, series, and VR/AR experiences made in the Unreal Game Engine.