Walk a mile in someone else.
Yedidya Gorsetman’s critically acclaimed sci-fi thriller Empathy, Inc (our review) will receive a North American release this September through Dark Star Pictures, the film telling the story of an investor in a VR startup who discovers that the reality the company provides isn’t virtual.
Dark Star will release the film in theaters on September 13 and on VOD September 24.
In the black & white thriller, “Hotshot venture capitalist Joel (Zack Robidas) has a multimillion-dollar deal go up in smoke, and he and his actress wife Jessica (Kathy Searle) are forced to move in with her parents and start from scratch. At the lowest and most desperate moment in his life, Joel meets old friend Nicolaus (Eric Berryman) and his business partner Lester (Jay Klaitz), who are seeking investors in a new technology known as XVR—Xtreme Virtual Reality—from their company Empathy, Inc., which is said to offer the most realistic and moving experiences for users by placing them in the lives of the less fortunate. Joel gets the startup its funds but soon discovers that the tech’s creators have far more sinister uses in store for their creation and that the reality it provides its customers isn’t virtual.”
Check out the new trailer and a new poster below.
