Tipping Element
*This screenplay reached the final of the Filmz Film Festival Screenplay Pitching despite being the only one which competed as a treatment submission.
Log Line
In an accident the VR-chip (Virtual Reality chip) in the head of young Lina gets damaged. From now on, she is the only one who sees her environment as it really is: a socially unequal, digitally oppressed world, already transformed by climate change.
Genre: (Near-Future-)Sci-Fi, Thriller, (A movie in four shots)
Abstract
In a future not so far away, everyone has got a chip implanted in their head which allows living in a virtually amended reality. Virtual objects can be perceived in a real, non-virtual environment. Thus, one can amend their world by creating, modulating or replacing objects and person’s appearances virtually.
(Keywords: Augmented reality, Computer-mediated reality.) Though everyone is aware of climate change and its effects, nobody lives in a reality where it exists. One day, after Lina’s chip gets damaged in an accident, she has to find her way between two different realities. She learns to enjoy originality over virtual luxury and about the power the producer of the chips, a global acting big tech company, has over its customers. She makes herself powerful enemies, but the ball starts rolling.