Omid Zarei is an Iranian director & cinematographer on the quest to immerse in alternative ways of storytelling. Omid has worked as a VFX artist early on, he studied physics in Iran and later architecture in Florence. After focusing attention into movies, he graduated from the film school in Paris. He has written and directed short films and photographed narrative movies, documentaries, VR videos, art films, music videos and everything in-between. In 2016 with the comeback of the VR hype (the release of Oculus rift) he got interested in experimenting with narrative ideas in VR and went on to develop a concept for a VR filmmaking workshop which lead to the creation of the “VR filmmaking workshop” in Helsinki. Not restricting himself to a single platform, within different disciplines and forms of expression, Omid has stayed curious to pursue a holy grail of storytelling.