On the Morning You Wake uses innovative documentary storytelling and virtual production techniques to viscerally recreate the lived experiences of people who, for 38 minutes, had to react and make impossible decisions in the face of nuclear violence.
Direction
Four directors merge VR, animation, and testimony seamlessly.
Production
Virtual production recreates panic with nauseating intimacy.
Sound
That emergency alert tone will haunt your nightmares.
Director
Mike Brett
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The actual Hawaii emergency alert was sent by a worker who mistook a drill for real — and wasn't fired.
The film's VR origins at Sundance explain its spatial intimacy; it was literally designed to trap you inside the panic.
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