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Container to premiere at Venice VR Expanded

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Electric South have announced that CONTAINER,  directed by Meghna Singh and Simon Wood, has been selected in competition in Venice VR Expanded at the prestigious 78th Venice International Film Festival. This will be the world premiere for the VR180 film. Container makes visible the ‘invisibilized’ bodies enabling our consumer society. Confronting slavery through an ever transforming shipping container, the past becomes the present, the invisible become visible.
 
Directors: Meghna Singh and Simon Wood
Executive Producers: Steven Markovitz, Ingrid Kopp, Caitlin Robinson
Supported by: National Geographic Society, Welcome Trust, Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cape Town, and The Maitland Institute. Electric South is supported by Ford Foundation and Bertha Foundation.