Happyland 360: A Virtual Reality Documentary on Slum Life
Have you always wondered how people in the slum really lived? Many of us think it can’t be such an easy thing for them. How do they live in such condition? How can they live in such condition? Do we need to live with them to understand their condition? With this mindset documentary creator Vitaly Nechaev has set up a virtual-reality documentary that explore the world of the Happyland slum in Tondo, a former fishing village that has become a landfill. It is located about 20 minutes away from the capital city of Manila. Happyland started as a toxic landfill called Hapilan, a Visayan word loosely translated as “smelly grabage” or dump site for want of a better word. People who live there renamed it Happyland as they look forward to a better time when this smelly and sticky place will become haven of hope for them. The documentary “Happyland360” focuses on five people who care about the Happyland slum. Nechaev, who runs his own virtual reality company called VostokVR,...