{"id":43649,"date":"2025-11-18T14:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/43649\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T14:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:49:10","slug":"diane-von-furstenberg-film-screening-at-soho-house-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/43649\/","title":{"rendered":"Diane von Furstenberg Film Screening at Soho House New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"image_caption\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3d2bcea8f7c53dc3d7dc8d6ba95ac659.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>\u00a0\u00a0Diane von Furstenberg- photo by Ruben Natal-San Miguel<\/p>\n<p class=\"standard_paragraph\">By RUBEN NATAL-SAN MIGUEL November 18th, 2025<\/p>\n<p>This is a great documentary directed by Victoria Bousis, which employs the use of AI in a brilliant, constructive, and humane manner. I have always been very skeptical about Artificial Intelligence technology\u2014until I saw this magnificent and deeply touching film. I\u2019m hoping it goes all the way to the Oscars, gets a nomination, and hopefully a win!<\/p>\n<p>Highly recommended for you to see!<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"image_caption\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bf92d7ed06005c681316ed827eb67d08.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>Director Victoria Bousis with Diane von Furstenberg. Photo by Olga Samofalova.<\/p>\n<p>A private screening and discussion of the Oscar\u00ae-qualifying short documentary Darkness to Light: When Technology Heals Generations was hosted by global fashion icon and philanthropist Diane von Furstenberg at Soho House New York. The event celebrated visionary filmmaker and technologist Victoria Bousis and Executive Producer Elodie Yung.<\/p>\n<p>Written, directed, and produced by Victoria Bousis\u2014a Greek-American filmmaker and AI expert\u2014and executive produced by Elodie Yung (CAA), the film follows Bousis\u2019s journey to Cambodia on the 50th anniversary of the Cambodian genocide. Using virtual reality, she helps young Cambodians rediscover their history and heal generational trauma, demonstrating how technology can bring light, connection, and hope.<\/p>\n<p>Darkness to Light has officially qualified for the 2025 Academy Awards\u00ae in the Documentary Short category and continues to receive critical acclaim. Bousis, a recipient of a United Nations Association Humanitarian Award and a Commendation from the City of Los Angeles, is also nominated for the 2025 BAFTA Games Awards for her interactive VR and PC project Stay Alive My Son: A True Story About a Father\u2019s Search for His Son, based on the acclaimed memoir by Pin Yathay.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"image_caption\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/243696c3ecb9cf0b0e67c3d5eb877cfa.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>Director of Darkness to Light, Victoria Bousis. Photo by Olga Samofalova<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"image_caption\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/f4b32f79ac5a19b888c25893e45a4fcc.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>Diane von Furstenberg and director Victoria Bousis in conversation before documentary preview .<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"standard_paragraph\">\u201cDarkness to Light shows how innovation can serve humanity and open our hearts to kindness. Experiencing Stay Alive My Son was unlike anything I\u2019ve ever known. Its realism and emotion touched me deeply, connecting me to my mother\u2019s survival of the Holocaust. Victoria proves that technology can heal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u00a0Diane von Furstenberg- photo by Ruben Natal-San Miguel By RUBEN NATAL-SAN MIGUEL November 18th, 2025 This is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8360,8363,8362,8361,9,11,10,8359,8364],"class_list":{"0":"post-43649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-art-magazine","9":"tag-art-news","10":"tag-art-show-reviews","11":"tag-contemporary","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-whitehot","16":"tag-whitehot-art"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}