„AR Lives“ PITCH WEBSITE

„AR LIVES“

An autobiographical ghost story

by Jinglin Huang

„An AR ghost is coming to the real world to hunt people who did bad things in their digital past„

Latest Update:
Financing plan & Searching for co-producers

We are putting together a financing plan in different countries. We are searching for potential co-producers in Europe and Asia.

Next Step: Applying for co-development fund from media

Short-Synopsis

The main character Lien is an Asian woman working in a European game developer studio who experienced a ghost in her childhood and accidentally brings it into the game.
While the ghost is checking the backgrounds of the players like an AI and killing the ones which did hate speech on the internet.
Lien is the only one noticing the danger of the situation, trying to remove the ghost, but as the game becoming more successful because of the ghost, her company is bringing high resistance stopping her. Being afraid the ghost also coming to hunt her, she can’t stop: Risking her career, partnership and friendship and even the right of residence in Europe to stop the ghost from killing.

#theDeathChallenge is cursing the internet.

The online community is dared to play a new AR horror game and survive.

Is it just a coincidence people died of a heart attack playing that game?

The more people die, the more the game is played…

The Creator

Jinglin Huang grew up in China and lived abroad in UK and Germany since 2015, she is now living and working in Cologne, Germany.

Except in the film industry, she also works as a 3D designer in the Augmented Reality field, which brought back her memories of ‘out of body’ experiences and inspired her to bring this unforgettable experience to life.

This film is Combining her childhood nightmares, with personal experience of immigrating to a country, including culture differences, languages difference and experiences of racism situation…

Inspiration

The story is based on real experiences from my childhood in China.

Children have simple and pure minds. Their view of the world isn’t coloured by the prejudices of adult rational thinking – they experience what they experience, they see what they see.
Adults interpret signs of paranormal activity differently. Adults may dismiss these signs as just a dream, in accordance with their analytical view on the world.

As a child, I liked to sleep on my side, as I could hear my heart beating.
I heard ‘her’ steps, with her high heels, walking on my side, getting closer and closer.
She arrived, she came to visit me every night, and she had a weird smile.

My mother, like most traditional Chinese parents, told me ‘there is no such thing as ghosts’. She didn’t want me believing in the supernatural.
One day the ghost suddenly disappeared from my life – my mind wasn’t pure any more, because I went to school and got educated, and took on adult beliefs.
I grew up, finished school and university and then moved to Europe, to work as a 3D designer. I began working in the Augmented Reality field, which brought back memories of ‘out of body’ experiences and inspired me to bring this unforgettable experience to life.
This is a story for everyone who is interested in the metaverse or who has had similar experiences, no matter if they are from Asia, Europe or elsewhere in the world.

Paintings

„An European-Asian horror-movie
about ghosts in virtual reality“