Liz Rosenthal
Curator Venice Immersive, Venice International Film Festival @ Biennale di Venezia
Curator, Executive Producer & Pioneer of Immersive Art and Media
Liz Rosenthal (UK) is Curator of the Venice Biennale’s Venice Immersive, the International Film Festival’s official XR programme, and CEO and Founder of the innovation company Power to the Pixel. She also co-designed and led CreativeXR, the UK’s flagship incubator/ accelerator for immersive content.
At the Venice International Film Festival, Liz was instrumental in launching Venice Immersive in 2017, the first and only official immersive competition in an A-list festival. It has since become the world’s most significant annual exhibition of immersive arts. She has also curated major exhibitions worldwide, including the first VR exhibition in London with the BFI London Film Festival in 2015, Red Sea Immersive in 2021 and 2022, and Glow: Spotlight on VR in 2024, an exhibition dedicated to women creators.
As Executive Producer of CreativeXR, Liz supported the development and financing of more than sixty XR projects, many of which went on to win major international awards. Acclaimed works she helped foster include Soul Paint (2024), Maya: The Birth of a Superhero (2024), Goliath: Playing With Reality (2021), (Hi)story of a Painting (2022), Madrid Noir (2021), and Common Ground (2020). Through Power to the Pixel, she created the first international programmes for financing and showcasing immersive works. The Pixel Lab developed over one hundred projects, while the Cross-Media Forum, run in partnership with the BFI London Film Festival, pioneered a financing market for interactive and immersive projects.
Liz began her career in film as UK Head of Next Wave Films (IFC), supporting early micro-budget features including Christopher Nolan’s Following. She is regularly invited to speak at leading events such as Cannes, Berlinale, BAFTA and TEDx, and serves on numerous international juries. She sits on the boards and advisory groups of Innovate UK Immersive Tech Network, Immersive Arts and the IDA Network, and is a member of BAFTA, IADAS, the Guild of Future Architects, and a Fellow of the RSA.