Stéphane Rituit

Stéphane Rituit is a Canadian film and virtual reality producer, who is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Montreal based immersive entertainment company Felix & Paul Studios.[1]

Career

Indigenous media work

Rituit began his professional career working with Inuit owned and community based media organizations including Isuma, Arnait Video Productions, Kingulliit Productions and the IsumaTV distribution platform.[2] His work included producing feature films and documentaries focused on Inuit culture, community life and climate change, and supporting the online dissemination of Indigenous language and cultural media through IsumaTV.

His production credits include the feature film Before Tomorrow (2008),[3] the climate change documentary Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change (2010),[4] and the documentary Sol (2014),[5] which explored the circumstances surrounding the death of Solomon Uyarasuk in Nunavut. He also contributed to Kingulliit Productions’ documentary initiative Inuit Cree Reconciliation.[6]

Before Tomorrow won the Best Canadian First Feature Film award at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival,[7] and received Genie and Jutra Award nominations.[8] Sol won the Grand Prize for Best Canadian Feature at the Montreal International Documentary Festival,[9] and was named to TIFF’s Canada's Top Ten list.[10]

Felix & Paul Studios

In 2013, Rituit co founded Felix & Paul Studios with Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphaël.[11] He serves as the studio’s chief executive officer.[12]

The studio’s early VR projects included Strangers with Patrick Watson, which premiered at South by Southwest in 2014 and has been cited as one of the earliest examples of cinematic stereoscopic 360 degree VR filmmaking.[13]

Rituit served as producer or executive producer on the VR documentary Traveling While Black (2019),[14][15] and on the multi part VR series Space Explorers: The ISS Experience, filmed aboard the International Space Station in partnership with Time Studios.[16] The series won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Program.[17]

He is also an executive producer of Space Explorers: THE INFINITE, a touring large scale VR installation,[18] and of Interstellar Arc, a permanent VR attraction that opened at AREA15 in Las Vegas in 2025.[19][20]

Awards and recognition

Award Date of ceremony Category Work Result Ref.
Canadian Screen Awards 2020 Best Immersive Experience, Fiction Gymnasia
with Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski, Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphael, Dana Dansereau, Loc Dao, Rob McLaughlin, Patrick Watson		 Won [21]
Emmy Awards 2021 Outstanding Interactive Program Space Explorers: The ISS Experience Won [22]
Genie Awards 2010 Best Motion Picture Before Tomorrow (Le jour avant le lendemain) Nominated [23]
Jutra Awards 2010 Best Film Before Tomorrow (Le jour avant le lendemain)
with Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk		 Nominated [24]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ↑ Kevin Carmichael, "How a Canadian pioneer is pushing innovative filmmaking to the outer limits". Financial Post, October 13, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Entretien avec Stéphane Rituit. IsumaTV, les enjeux virtuels d'un réseau d'artistes inuit". Cahiers du CIÉRA / Études Nordiques. 2010. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  3. ↑ "Before Tomorrow". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. TIFF. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  4. ↑ "Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change". Cinema Politica. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  5. ↑ "Sol". Reel Canada. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  6. ↑ "Inuit Cree Reconciliation: Charlie Tooktoo". IsumaTV. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  7. ↑ "Slumdog takes the people's prize; LeBron James documentary tapped as runner-up". Toronto Star, September 14, 2008.
  8. ↑ "Before Tomorrow". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. TIFF. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  9. ↑ Peter Robb, "Wakefield festival opens with documentary about suicide in North". Ottawa Citizen, February 6, 2015.
  10. ↑ "TIFF announces its top 10 Canadian films of 2014". CBC News, December 2, 2014.
  11. ↑ "Felix & Paul Studios – Emmy Award winning VR storytelling". Felixandpaul.com. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  12. ↑ "Felix & Paul Studios". Effet Québec. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  13. ↑ "Felix & Paul Studios: Explore the International Space Station in virtual reality". Canada.ca. 21 March 2025. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  14. ↑ "Traveling While Black". MIT Open Documentary Lab. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  15. ↑ "Traveling While Black". La Biennale di Venezia. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  16. ↑ "Space Explorers: The ISS Experience". ISS National Laboratory. 23 September 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  17. ↑ "'Space Explorers: The ISS Experience' wins Emmy". Space.com. 23 September 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  18. ↑ "Space Explorers: THE INFINITE". PHI Studio. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  19. ↑ "The art of presence: Felix & Paul Studios on Interstellar Arc". Blooloop. 7 August 2025. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  20. ↑ "Enter Interstellar Arc, Las Vegas' new immersive virtual space adventure". Visit Las Vegas. 15 October 2025. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  21. ↑ Katie Scott, "2020 Canadian Screen Awards winners: ‘Mary Kills People,’ ‘Vikings’ win big". Global News, May 26, 2020.
  22. ↑ "'Space Explorers: The ISS Experience' garners Emmy". ISS National Laboratory. 23 September 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  23. ↑ Strauss, Marise (March 1, 2010). "Polytechnique leads Genie race". Playback.
  24. ↑ "Prix Jutra: Dédé à travers les brumes part favori". Le Soleil, February 16, 2010.
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