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Filmmaker/Actor/Researcher @project.1961 Double BIFA Winner | Grierson Award | SXSW Jury Award @grandthefthamlet

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Baftas with my love @pinnygrylls by @samuelrcrane

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Throwback @bifa_film dump 😍😍😍🏆🏆🎬🎬🎬 by @samuelrcrane

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Do you use BSL ? You here at @sheffdocfest this weekend ? Come and join our open rehearsal for our new show ‘Sound and Fury’ - what is it ? It’s a retelling of Macbeth inside a computer game. Come and join and have some fun ! All rehearsals are captioned and tomorrow they will be BSL interpreted. Come and join the fun ! #sheffielddocfest #bsl #immersivetheatre #macbeth #gaming by @samuelrcrane

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Great panel @sxswlondon with amazing people @dansalkey @brianbaglow @estherwright talking about The GTA Effect 🎮🎮🎮 by @samuelrcrane

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An open rehearsal for a hybrid theatrical experiment, from the makers of Grand Theft Hamlet, that reimagines Shakespeare’s Macbeth within the virtual world of a first person shooter video game.The Alternate Realities Development Space offers a unique chance to attend, participate in and feedback on Open Rehearsals for new works in development and to be a part of the live creative process. Working simultaneously on stage and in game, Sound and Fury bridges physical and digital spaces. Macbeth and his wife Lady M are gamers manipulating their avatars like puppets, with in-game action projected immersively onto screens to create a layered experience that challenges traditional ideas of theatrical presence. At its heart lies a question central to both gaming and Macbeth: who is really in control?Audience will also have the opportunity to become ‘players,’ joining the game on PlayStations in the theatre, giving them genuine agency in shaping the story. There will then be the opportunity to feedback as part of focus groups on the audience experience. Free, advance booking required - limited capacity.Directors: Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane, Producer: Rebecca Wolff. Sound and Fury is supported by XR Stories and by Immersive Arts funding. @xr_stories @sheffdocfest @immersivearts_uk @project.1961 Come and join us ! Getting sold out but one day still has some availability! by @samuelrcrane

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Looking forward to speaking @sxswlondon on Thursday on The GTA Effect about what this cultural behemoth means for creators and the entertainment industry. I'm alongside a fantastic panel: Brian Baglow, who wrote the original Grand Theft Auto at DMA DesignEsther Wright is Senior Lecturer in Digital History at Cardiff University and author of Rockstar Games and American History — the definitive academic study of how Rockstar constructs cultural meaning and authenticity.Dan Salkey is co-founder of Small World, the entertainment-first creative company backed by Mother, working with Adidas, Oatly DuolingoI think it'll be a fascinating conversationProtein Studios, Stage 2 — Thursday 4 June, 1:35pm.Who's coming?#SXSWLondon #GrandTheftHamlet #GTA6 #GamingCulture #CreatorEconomy by @samuelrcrane

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Today, we celebrate the remarkable art, vision and legacy of Aubrey Williams #AubreyWilliamsCentenary. Born in Guyana in 1926, Williams developed a powerful visual language that moved between abstraction and figuration, grounded in a profound awareness of humanity’s relationship to the environment, history and the cosmos. After arriving in London in 1952, he became a founding member of the Caribbean Artists Movement — a pivotal network of artists and intellectuals who reshaped the city’s cultural landscape. Spanning ecology, cosmology and pre-colonial histories, his visionary work continues to resonate powerfully.I am lucky enough to call him my uncle. I’ll never forget visiting his studio as a young child; the impact of his creativity and the sheer scale of his distinctive paintings stayed with me forever.We honour an artist whose vision continues to resonate@octobergallerylondon by @samuelrcrane

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Delighted to announce that @project.1961 has been awarded 50k EXPAND funding from @immersivearts_uk to further develop our project Sound and Fury. We are incredibly honoured to be one of the 142 projects across the UK receiving support this funding round. This grant wil allow us to build upon the work we did with the previous round of EXPERIMENT funding from Immersive Arts UK to take our vision for hybrid, immersive theatre to the next level.What is Sound and Fury? Following our work on Grand Theft Hamlet, we are diving back into the digital void to reimagine Shakespeare’s Macbeth within a virtual gaming world. This isn’t just a play—it’s a collision of live performance and gaming:⚔️ Hybrid Reality: Performed simultaneously on a physical stage and inside an online game.🕹️ Audience as Players: Whether in-person or remote via Discord, audiences become active “players” in the drama, shaping scenes through collective “flashmob” actions.🔕 Radical Accessibility: As a deaf artist-led project, we are embedding BSL, creative captioning, and haptic technology into the very fabric of the art, not just as add-ons, but as expressive storytelling tools.This project explores what “liveness” truly means when code and flesh perform side-by-side. We are so grateful to Immersive Arts for believing in this “hunch” that theatre and gaming are two sides of the same coin.Huge thanks to the partners making this possible: Arts Council England, Immersive Arts UKCheck out the full funding announcement and explore the other incredible projects in our bio by @samuelrcrane

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@samuelrcrane and I did some @project.1961 research today @framelessldn -enjoyed @immersivearts_uk The Whale and had lots of ideas about where we want to go next with our work. Some reflections on immersive work :-Story is everything otherwise it’s wallpaper -Allow audiences to play-Passive is sometimes more immersive than active. -Interactivity can happen in the imagination if you allow space for that to happen- performers must have a way to relate to the projection as it’s the in the connection between the two that interesting things happen otherwise it’s not hybrid just backdrop by @samuelrcrane

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February 1. You know you have teenagers in the house by the ever-growing piles of SHOES2. @terracottapots has the cutest BISCUIT dog 3. Most beautiful cat in the world aka Monty4. Beautiful sunny palace pier 5. Sneak peak at Lightroom6. Me and Monty 😍7. first sighting of FROGSPAWN 8. One frog didn't make it 😭9/10. Pre Baftas with @pinnygrylls amazing interpreter Hahna Ahmed & @katmansoor11. Checking out tech at Bristol Digital Futures Institute by @samuelrcrane

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@project.1961 got invited to Belfast to play with some toys at @studio.ulster - and start developing a new project supported by @belfastxrfest Amplify scheme. Had fun meeting the rest of the Amplify cohort and presenting our crazy idea Exit Meatspace with @samuelrcrane and my fellow @bafta breakthrough mate Cara Ellison. Here we are doing the sign for Meat! by @samuelrcrane

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