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“The Hidden,” a new Vr thriller that takes a critical look at Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (Ice) pursuit of undocumented immigrants, will be coming to all major Vr platforms in July. Los Angeles-based Vr production company Vanishing Point Media partnered with the Aclu for “The Hidden” and vows to donate all the proceeds of the film to the non-profit.

“The Hidden” is being billed as a fictional story based on real events. In the film, we get to see how Ice agents trick members of an immigrant family into letting them into their house, where the undocumented dad is trying to stay unnoticed in a makeshift hiding place.

Check out a 360-degree trailer for “The Hidden” below:

The film’s production company Vanishing Point Media accelerated the release schedule for the film in light of the current attention on immigration and family separations, said the company’s co-founder and...

Ashton Kutcher is a man full of ideas—and to that, he also knows a good one when he see it. Back in February, the actor and entrepreneur dropped by the La edition of Startup Weekend, a 54-hour no-sleep grindfest of tech entrepreneurs tasked with taking an idea from concept to launched startup in just one weekend. Out of it came some pretty clever products, like Zaarly, that Kutcher himself backed along with other investors. That got Kutcher and partner Jason Goldberg and their team at Katalyst thinking. Could this same format be done with online video content ideas? That’s when they looped in a major sponsor, Intel, and came up with IdeaJam, a 48-hour event held April 1-3 with 48 digital filmmakers forming six teams tasked with pitching, creating, adapting, building, devising, and editing their ideas under the over-arching “What Inspires You?” theme. Now video from the event, shot documentary style,...

Discomfort humor is hard to get right. Since we first saw the British version of The Office, we across the pond have been trying to distill nervous laughter as if the ingredients were going to expire soon. WorkingBug.com's A Series of Unfortunate People - from what I've seen thus far - seems to be playing jump rope with the line between discomfort-for-humor and discomfort-for-discomfort's-sake. The premise of professional actors "re-enacting" strange incidents amounts to sketch comedy with an overall tonal connection of people who are in the process of major personal train wrecks. There's a bit of a disconnect between the first two episodes from a writing standpoint. In "Bargain Birthday," we see quite a bit of skin-crawling discomfort and a complete lack of understanding from a ridiculously cheap friend during a birthday gathering. Leads Leyna Juliet Weber and Beth Shea (both of whom, along with director Annie Lukowski,...

Kurtzman and Orci, Bays and Thomas, Schwartz and Savage. Most of what shines in Hollywood these days comes straight from the pages of a well-crafted writing duo. One partner brings the story concepts, the other the snappy dialogue, one brings the irreverence the other the bite, and so forth. On the digital side of Hollywood, the scrappy lone wolf scribes are a plenty, but occasionally we’re seeing the rise of the web’s version of the power duo. Leyna Weber and Annie Lukowski and their new shingle Working Bug Media are emerging as a digital writer-producer duo to keep an eye on, building their chops with a strong toehold in the web world. The duo is most notably known in web circles for the Jaleel White topped comedy series Road to the Altar with Mwg Entertainment back in summer of 2009. The series landed some modest sponsor deals from the...

When you've got it flaunt it, right? Mwg Entertainment the multi-platform digital studio behind web series My Two Fans and now wedding comedy Road to the Altar, has done an impressive job lining up some household-name sponsors for its projects. Altar is boasting wedding-friendly consumer brands Pier 1, iRobot, Panda Express and Blackberry signed on for the series. The 10-episode series, directed and co-written by Annie Lukowski, stars Jaleel White (Urkel on Family Matters) and Leyna Weber (who also co-wrote) from As the World Turns as a young couple, Simon and Rochelle, pulling together their wedding with a faux-reality TV crew in tow. The couple makes all the expected stops around town to find the perfect vendors for the wedding - florists, valets, wedding dresses, etc. And that's where the veteran TV guest stars come in to shine—Kym Whitley (The Parkers), Rodney Perry (Who’s Got Jokes?), Susan Floyd (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles...