Lester Francois

Lester Francois is a filmmaker working across many formats including VR. In 2017 he released the short VR documentary RONE which screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival. The interactive version of RONE premiered at SXSW 2018 and also screened at Cannes. RONE is the first episode in the VR arts doc series KINETIC.

Since making RONE Lester has made three more VR street art documentaries and was flown to South Africa to direct a series of short VR arts docs for an exhibition in Soho, London.

In addition to working in VR Lester produced and directed the 2015 feature documentary GameLoading: Rise of the Indies and is currently developing a slate of TV projects across scripted comedy and factual.

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