Winner Best International Project: Immersive Impact Doc Edge, July 2026

Winner Best Interactive/Immersive Documentary in the 2026 AIDC (Australian International Documentary Conference) Awards, March 2026

Winner Lumine Award for Best Virtual Reality Work, Tricky Women Tricky Realities March

Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich QLD
June 27 - August 30, 2026

Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney NSW
August 22-23 2026

BUKU Arts Centre, Yirrkala NT
Sept 7-11, 2026

Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina NSW
Oct 15 - Dec 6, 2026

Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne VIC
Nov 26 2026 - Feb 14 2027

International premiere at Art Directions at International Film Festival Rotterdam, January 2026

Tricky Women: Tricky Realities, VR exhibition, Vienna, March 2026

New Images, XR Competition, Paris, April 2026

Doxumentale, VR + Games section, Berlin, May 2026

Annecy Festival, Selection Officielle, Annecy, June 2026

DocEdge, Immersive Exhibition, Auckland, June 2026

Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, January 30, 2026, online.

Katsutoshi Machiba, XR Film Guide #105 Mar 23, 2026, online.

Mathieu Gayet, XR Must, February 11th 2026, online.

Kees Drissen, Filmkrant, February 4th, 2026, online.

Simmone Howell, The Age, August 16th 2025 pp 8-9 and online.

Luke Buckmaster, The VR Critic , August 31st 2025, online.

Anthony Frajman, Broadsheet, August 22 2025, online.

Written, Directed and Animated by Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine

Featuring the voices and stories of Tom Doig, Marina Perkovich and Antoinette O’Brien as well as contributions from flood affected people across eastern Australia.

Produced by Philippa Campey, Film Camp

Executive Producer - Ben Joseph Andrews

Sound Designers - Byron Scullin And Mark Mitchell, Fuligin Sound

Composer - Biddy Connor

Lead Programmer - Steve Hadley

The World Came Flooding In was created on the unceded lands of the Kulin Nation. We pay respects to all Traditional Custodians on whose lands this film is experienced.