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    VR Director Sam Smith, Head of VR/AR/360 Catherine Day Join m ss ng p eces

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    Catherine Day, head of VR/AR/360 for m ss ng p eces
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    Bicoastal m ss ng p eces has hired Catherine Day as head of VR/AR/360 and added VR director Sam Smith to its roster. The moves fortify the production and entertainment company’s already established pedigree in virtual reality storytelling which includes delivering one of the first commercial VR projects, Dos Equis’ “Virtual Masquerade,” bringing a U.S. President into VR with Bill Clinton’s “Inside Impact,” and turning out a groundbreaking VR sports documentary “Follow My Lead: The 2016 Finals” for the National Basketball Association and Oculus.

    Day comes over to m ss ng p eces from Jaunt VR where she was head of unscripted/executive producer. In her new role, Day will drive VR/AR/360 efforts from m ss ng p eces’ Los Angeles office, and oversee several original VR series that will be announced jointly with WME and partners in the coming months. In her previous role at Jaunt VR, Day led projects for ABC News, RYOT/Huffington Post, Camp 4 Collective, XRez, Tastemade, Outside TV, Civic Nation and Conservation International. 

    Meanwhile Smith is a creative director and VR director who previously worked with MediaMonks on projects for Expedia, Delta, Converse and YT. Smith also has an extensive background in commercial visual effects. His deep understanding of postproduction and VFX gives him a unique edge in development of VR/360 projects, and as a technical advisor to m ss ng p eces.

    Smith and Day build on a company talent base which recently added such other notables as: Ray Tintori who co-directed the 25-minute “Follow My Lead” experience, which transports the viewer through the 2016 NBA championship and helped redefine long-form for VR; Yehuda Duenyas, a.k.a. Mindride, who is best known for his creative and technical work on the Ad Council’s lauded “Love Has No Labels” campaign and the “Airflow” flying VR simulator; and Yung Jake who’s part of Jaunt’s VR Residency and is currently developing a VR/360 experience for the 2017 Sundance Institute New Frontiers program.

    Additionally, as part of its expansion into developing original VR content, m ss ng  p eces has signed with WME for representation. Earlier this year m ss ng p eces won an Emmy for its original series “Videos 4U,” a co-production with Ira Glass and This American Life. 

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    Documentary Celebrates Travis Barker’s Life Before and After He Survived A Plane Crash

    Tuesday, August 11, 2026

    The inferno rages onscreen three minutes into "Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear." Dashcam footage lifted from a police car shows the blaze: It's 2008, and Barker has survived a plane crash in South Carolina. Four others did not.

    And then, a cut. The documentary, which follows the Blink-182 drummer from 2017 to 2026, is a celebration of Barker's life before and after the life-altering accident, a central event in a career full of them. The film began as a mirror of his memoir, 2015's "Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums," but became something else entirely after a producer suggested it end with the image of Barker, then still unable to fly due to post-traumatic stress disorder, walking toward a plane.

    Ending on that note, "where this thing still has power over me," didn't sit well with him. Instead, he boards a plane at the end, but the documentary's final images are a slide show of family photos, including his wife Kourtney Kardashian and kids.

    "I almost died," he says. It "could be helpful to share my life."

    An elastic artist
    Barker's resume is long, and a two-and-a-half-hour documentary can only cover so much of it. The film hits most of the big notes, quickly establishing Barker as a rebellious kid with a supernatural drumming ability from age 4, when he got his first kit, to now, at 50.

    And that's with many projects in-between: From the SoCal punks Feeble, which he joined while working as a trash collector, to his stint in the ska band The Aquabats and multiplatinum, pop-punk legends Blink-182 — the band that skyrocketed Barker into superstardom.

    Also covered? His love of skateboarding and car culture, his clothing brands, side-projects Box Car Racer and +44,... Read More

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