Founded in Paris in 2015 by Jérémy Sahel, Da Prod is an audiovisual production company that places technological innovation at the heart of storytelling. Active in immersive media and, more generally, in hybrid and digital formats, Da Prod develops unique works that explore new uses of images and contemporary writing styles.
After producing content for YouTube channels, web series, and feature films, Da Prod gradually specialized in virtual reality and immersive creation, supporting authors exploring innovative narrative forms. Each project is approached as a field of artistic and technological experimentation, where staging, narration, and distribution methods are designed jointly.
Da Prod has quickly established itself as a recognized player in international VR creation, with numerous works selected and screened at major festivals. In 2017, the company produced François Vautier’s I Saw the Future, which was presented at the Venice Film Festival, widely selected at festivals, and broadcast on Arte360, Within, Meta Quest TV, and Apple Vision Pro, totaling more than 400,000 views on Meta TV alone. The film was named the most broadcast VR film in the world in 2018 according to a Unifrance study.
Building on this success, Da Prod produced Odyssey 1.4.9 in 2019, a virtual reality tribute to the work of Stanley Kubrick directed by François Vautier, which was presented at SXSW in 2020 and 2021. In 2020, the company also supported Recoding Entropia, selected for the 77th Venice Film Festival, whose immersive versions are enjoying sustained international distribution, notably through Culture Espaces in their immersive theaters in Paris, Bordeaux, New York, and Amsterdam.
More recently, Da Prod produced Human Violins by Ioana Mischie, supported by the CNC, selected at the Venice Film Festival in 2023 and then at the Cannes Film Festival as part of its first VR edition in 2024, as well as Battlefield by François Vautier, a live-action VR film supported by the CNC and co-produced with France Télévisions, selected for the official competition at the 81st Venice Film Festival (2024) and out of competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
Keen to reach the widest possible audience, Da Prod develops multi-format versions (VR, 2D, domes, immersive installations) for each of its works. For example, I Saw the Future and Recoding Entropia exist in “flat” versions and have been broadcast on television. The screening of Recoding Entropia in several major immersive venues attracted more than 4 million visitors. The dome adaptations of these works are entrusted to Hubblo and are currently enjoying great international success.
Da Prod is currently developing new immersive projects, including Beta Aquarii, a multi-format interactive project directed by François Vautier in partnership with France Télévisions, Believe me ?, an interactive VR adaptation of Maxime Girardeau’s novel, Damned by Nataliya Velykanova, and I Wonder If Peace Knows How to Fight, a new VR project by Ioana Mischie.
Jeremy Sahel
Producer – Founder of Da Prod
After completing his undergraduate studies abroad and attending medical school in Paris, Jérémy Sahel turned his attention to audiovisual production. He began his career at Enfin Bref Productions, where he spent nearly ten years developing numerous documentary projects, while also directing several films himself. He gradually expanded his production scope to include web, short films, and transmedia projects. Numerous documentaries were produced and selected for many festivals, with some even being screened in movie theaters.
In 2015, he founded Da Prod, initially focused on YouTube channels. The company supported young talent and acted as an incubator for the first web creations of videographers and actors such as Max Bird, Pierre-Emmanuel Barré, and Freddy Gladieux. Driven by a desire to develop more narrative and innovative forms, Jérémy Sahel then turned his attention to web series, with notable projects such as Le Myriapode (Mathieu du Paolo), Yasmina & RIM (Antoine Desrosières), and En Chien (Denis Larzillères), which won numerous awards, were selected for festivals, and achieved high viewing figures on AVOD platforms.
In 2016, he began working in immersive creation and virtual reality, producing Jetlag, one of the first live-action VR films, which was presented at Cannes NEXT VR and won international awards. In 2017, he produced François Vautier’s I Saw the Future, which was screened at more than 150 festivals, including the Venice Biennale, and became a benchmark in VR cinema. This collaboration continued with Odyssey 1.4.9, Recoding Entropia—shown in major immersive venues in Europe and the United States to more than 4 million visitors—and then Champ de Bataille, a live-action VR film previewed at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.
Jérémy Sahel also produced Human Violins by Ioana Mischie, selected for the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, and is currently developing new immersive projects, including Beta Aquarii by François Vautier. At the end of 2024, he started developing Damned by Nataliya Velykanova and Believe me ?, an adaptation of the novel by Maxime Girardeau co-directed by Benjamin Hoguet.
At the same time, in 2018, Jérémy Sahel co-founded Perpetual Soup with writers Vincent Poymiro and David Elkaïm, a production company dedicated to fiction, placing writing and artistic direction at the heart of the creative process. Several series and feature film projects are currently in development.
François Vautier
Director – Multidisciplinary Artist
François Vautier is known for his work at the intersection of cinema, virtual reality, and narrative experimentation. He develops unique immersive works that explore memory, time, and new narrative devices.
At Da Prod, we have produced several of his VR films, including I Saw the Future, Odyssey 1.4.9, Recoding Entropia, and Battlefield, which have been selected and presented at international festivals such as the Venice Film Festival and SXSW. Our collaboration is part of an ongoing search for new forms of immersive cinema, combining technological innovation and artistic excellence.
We are producing his new project, Beta Aquarii.
For more information about François Vautier, click here.
Camille Renaud
Camille Renaud is a Creative Producer and PMP-certified Project Manager with over 10 years of experience in the cultural industries. Driven by a passion for digital art and emerging technologies, she thrives at the intersection of new storytelling formats, computer-generated audiovisual content, and immersive experiences (LBE, LBVR, video mapping).
She designs and orchestrates interactive immersive experiences — both headset-based and headset-free — serving brand storytelling, architectural design, art films, and transdisciplinary performances.
Her portfolio includes the production of internationally recognized in-situ experiences such as Beyond Van Gogh and Beyond Monet at Normal Studio, the creation of digital scenography for the Casino de Montréal, Freelance Executive Producer at Small Creative, and serving as Interim Executive Director for a contemporary dance company in Montreal.