High Road Stories is a Berlin-based creative studio for immersive experiences. We design innovative, high quality projects and manage productions in collaboration with an international network of talented artists.
The studio was founded in 2018 by director Harmke Heezen and creative technologist Mike Robbins, who have many years of experience in award-winning digital and audiovisual documentary work.
We believe the digital world doesn’t have to be cold and impersonal, and specialize in thoughtful, playful, and imaginative experiences to prove it.
Exhibition venues worldwide include the Venice Biennale, the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, and the Stadtpalais in Stuttgart, as well as festivals like SXSW, CPH:DOX, IDFA, and the BFI London Film Festival.
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Harmke is a director, writer and producer.
In previous lives Harmke studied Film at Utrecht University, and directed and produced for the Arts & Culture department of the Dutch national public broadcaster AVRO.
As an independent filmmaker in Berlin she made web series and interactive documentaries, commissioned by, among others, the BBC, Arte, and the Goethe-Institut.
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Mike is a director, producer, and creative technologist.
In previous lives Mike studied Visual Arts in Toronto and was a rock musician.
As creative technologist and partner at his company Helios Design Labs in Toronto he led pioneering interactive documentary projects such as Highrise (2012, with director Kat Cizek), winning Emmy, Peabody, World Press Photo, and Canada Screen awards. Other projects include the Quipu Project, Digital Me, After The Storm, and Offshore.