Here at The Humanitarian Cooperative we want our stories to reflect our view of the world - namely that it's a small place within which we are all inter-connected and inter-dependant - and we felt that the Tiny Planet concept was ideally suited for this. One of the great things about shooting in Mongolia was what the wide open spaces and crystal clear skies gave us, that we could then use to give the viewer a sense of space.

The story begins on a cold winter morning in New York where a small group of people are meeting in a windowless room in an unremarkable corner of UN headquarters. It is the job of these people to communicate humanitarian issues, and in a world on fire, they have their work cut out for them. They have gathered to watch a Virtual Reality film called Clouds Over Sidra about a Syrian refugee camp. It is February 2014.

Today in Geneva at United Nations headquarters, we premiered our ten minute VR film Life in the Time of Refuge. Here's the (non VR) trailer ...