Co-Directors Kate Voet and Victor Maes will share the creative journey behind A Long Goodbye, an interactive VR film that invites audiences to step into the shoes of Ida, a 72-year-old pianist living with dementia. They’ll discuss how a deeply personal story moved global audiences across Venice, IDFA, and SXSW, and their hopes for enhancing dementia care worldwide.
As a special treat, VRChat attendees will get to experience virtual elements of A Long Goodbye right inside Agog House, offering a rare, up-close look at the work itself.
How to Join
This Agog House Event takes place in Agog House, Agog’s custom-built world in VRChat, and is free and open to the public.
You can join in two ways:
🪩 In VRChat—attend live in Agog House
🎥 On YouTube—join the livestream from anywhere
About the Speakers
Kate Voet, Co-Director, A Long Goodbye
Kate Voet is a Belgian film director and screenwriter from Brussels. Prior to co-directing A Long Goodbye, her short films Les Homards Immortels and The Tears of Things toured festivals around the world. She has developed film projects through workshops and markets including Torino Film Lab, the Venice Gap Financing Market, and IDFA Doclab Forum, and studied English literature and linguistics, theater studies, and film directing at the University of Amsterdam, LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, and The New School in New York City. She is now working on various projects in development, including two fiction feature films.
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Victor Maes, Co-Director, A Long Goodbye
Victor Maes is a Belgian cinematographer and director. Prior to co-directing A Long Goodbye, he shot Ever Since, I Have Been Flying, a documentary by Swiss-Turkish filmmaker Aylin Gökmen that premiered at Locarno and Toronto in 2023. He has worked as a camera assistant and cinematographer across fiction, documentary, and commercial projects since 2016, including Close, Girl, and Holly. He took courses in advanced cinematography at the Global Cinematography Institute in Los Angeles, and graduated from LUCA School of Arts Brussels’ film program in 2015.
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Moderator
Vanessa Lawand Pfeiffer, Community Strategy & Engagement Manager, Agog
Vanessa has dedicated her career to fostering community and driving social impact through media and entertainment. She brings over 15 years of experience in film, TV, music, gaming, and digital content to her role as Agog’s community strategy & engagement manager. Previously, Vanessa served as director of equity & inclusion at Warner Bros. Discovery, leading talent pipeline programs in animation, games, VFX, and creative tech. She blends deep industry expertise with a commitment to representation, innovation, and sustainable impact.
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About Agog
Agog: The Immersive Media Institute is a philanthropic organization dedicated to helping creators and nonprofit leaders use extended reality (XR)—including virtual, augmented, and mixed reality—to imagine and build a more connected, just, and compassionate world. Agog operates as a field builder and creative partner, supporting immersive storytellers whose work addresses urgent social and environmental challenges.
Agog House is a persistent world custom-built for Agog in VRChat by ShuShu VR and Niko Lang as a gathering space for connections and conversations that explore the social impact of immersive media. Agog hosts monthly public programs in Agog House that spotlight innovative projects and critical conversations in the XR-for-good ecosystem. These events are free and open to the public, and are also livestreamed on Agog’s YouTube channel for global audiences.