Stéphane Rituit

Stéphane Rituit is a Canadian film and virtual reality producer, and the co-founder and chief executive officer of Montreal based immersive entertainment company Felix & Paul Studios.[1] He began his career producing Inuit community based films and documentaries, and was named by The Hollywood Reporter as one of “10 Canadians to Watch” in 2013.[2]

Career

Indigenous media work

Rituit began his professional career working with Inuit owned and community based media organizations including Igloolik Isuma Productions, Arnait Video Productions, Kingulliit Productions and the IsumaTV distribution platform.[3] 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),[4] the climate change documentary Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change (2010),[5] and the documentary Sol (2014),[6] which explored the circumstances surrounding the death of Solomon Uyarasuk in Nunavut. He also contributed to Kingulliit Productions’ documentary initiative Inuit Cree Reconciliation.[7]

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

Felix & Paul Studios

In 2013, Rituit co founded Felix & Paul Studios with Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphaël.[10] He serves as the studio’s chief executive officer.[11]

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.[12]

Rituit served as producer or executive producer on the VR documentary Traveling While Black (2019),[13][14] and on the multi part VR series Space Explorers: The ISS Experience, filmed aboard the International Space Station in partnership with Time Studios.[15] The series won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Program.[16]

He is also an executive producer of Space Explorers: THE INFINITE, a touring large scale VR installation,[17] and of Interstellar Arc, a permanent VR attraction that opened at AREA15 in Las Vegas in 2025.[18][19]

Awards and recognition

Rituit is a recipient of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Program as an executive producer of Space Explorers: The ISS Experience.[20] In 2013 he was listed by The Hollywood Reporter as one of Telefilm Canada’s “10 Canadians to Watch”.[21]

Selected filmography

  • Before Tomorrow (2008) – producer
  • Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change (2010) – producer
  • Uvanga (2013) – producer
  • Sol (2014) – producer
  • Traveling While Black (2019) – producer
  • Space Explorers: The ISS Experience (2020) – executive producer
  • Space Explorers: THE INFINITE (2021) – executive producer
  • Interstellar Arc (2025) – executive producer

References

  1. ^ "Felix & Paul Studios: Explore the International Space Station in virtual reality". Canada.ca. 21 March 2025. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  2. ^ "Telefilm Canada Unveils 10 Canadians to Watch". The Hollywood Reporter. 17 April 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  3. ^ "Entretien avec Stéphane Rituit. IsumaTV, les enjeux virtuels d'un réseau d'artistes inuit". Cahiers du CIÉRA / Études Nordiques. 2010. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  4. ^ "Before Tomorrow". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. TIFF. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  5. ^ "Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change". Cinema Politica. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  6. ^ "Sol". Reel Canada. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  7. ^ "Inuit Cree Reconciliation: Charlie Tooktoo". IsumaTV. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  8. ^ "Before Tomorrow". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. TIFF. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  9. ^ "Arnait Video Productions – About Us". Arnait Video Productions. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  10. ^ "Felix & Paul Studios – Emmy Award winning VR storytelling". Felixandpaul.com. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  11. ^ "Felix & Paul Studios". Effet Québec. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  12. ^ "Felix & Paul Studios: Explore the International Space Station in virtual reality". Canada.ca. 21 March 2025. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  13. ^ "Traveling While Black". MIT Open Documentary Lab. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  14. ^ "Traveling While Black". La Biennale di Venezia. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  15. ^ "Space Explorers: The ISS Experience". ISS National Laboratory. 23 September 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  16. ^ "'Space Explorers: The ISS Experience' wins Emmy". Space.com. 23 September 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  17. ^ "Space Explorers: THE INFINITE". PHI Studio. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  18. ^ "The art of presence: Felix & Paul Studios on Interstellar Arc". Blooloop. 7 August 2025. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  19. ^ "Enter Interstellar Arc, Las Vegas' new immersive virtual space adventure". Visit Las Vegas. 15 October 2025. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  20. ^ "'Space Explorers: The ISS Experience' garners Emmy". ISS National Laboratory. 23 September 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  21. ^ "Telefilm Canada Unveils 10 Canadians to Watch". The Hollywood Reporter. 17 April 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
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