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Lyfta is a digital learning platform that centres on immersive 360° environments and short documentary films. We have an open call for powerful character-based short documentaries with a strong story arc, that help us all better understand ourselves as individuals, communities and an entire planet. 

We want stories from all over the world, ideally made by filmmakers local to the stories, which depict a personal story that opens up to a wider societal issue. We want to work with a diverse range of filmmakers, and are excited to work with filmmaking talent who may not already be known to us.

Lyfta documentaries need to be aimed at a young audience, encouraging empathy, building connections and challenging stereotypes. They can involve hard-hitting subjects exploring big social issues, or they can be more light-hearted. Either way, they need to be made with a young audience in mind.

Our films vary a lot in theme and style, but our preference is for films told observationally, rather than relying on talking heads. We want Lyfta films to look and sound beautiful, and to move at a fast pace which will keep our audience interested. Our films are usually under 10 minutes in length.

We take pitches for films at any stage of production, from concept through to completed films. We can work with short documentary ideas exclusively designed for Lyfta, shorts which will also have a life on other non-educational platforms, and versions of feature documentaries. 

In your pitch, we want to have a strong sense of the personality and motivations of your main character, the story arc, and the style in which you’ll make the film. We’d also love to see a trailer or teaser clip featuring your main character. If you’re early in production, it can be a self-filmed clip or even just photos. 

We also ask you for your initial ideas on 360° scenes for the storyworlds in which the documentaries will live.

Lyfta films are housed on our platform in ‘storyworlds’ - fully spherical 360° environments that learners are able to see, hear and interact with from all possible views. Each storyworld is made up of a variety of 360° scenes that our users journey through, engaging with the film and additional visual and written content as they go. When we commission films, we train filmmakers in the art of 360° photography and video. Through this training, filmmakers are given the opportunity to further immerse viewers in their stories, maximising the creative, educational and impactful potential of their films.