WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF HUMANOS
HUMANOS is a Caribbean science fiction universe spanning film, immersive experiences, and interactive storytelling.
Thank you for exploring this world with us.
HUMANOS
A Feature Film in Development by Eunice Levis
In a near-future Caribbean where AI dictates survival, a neurodivergent young woman from an analog resistance community risks everything to rescue her mother years after mandatory technological augmentation absorbed her into the very system she once tried to escape.
About the Film
HUMANOS is a Caribbean science fiction feature exploring labor, memory, disability, technology, and the future of human identity.
Set in a climate-altered Caribbean divided between AI-governed cities and analog resistance communities, the story follows Carla Gomez, a young woman who has spent most of her life believing her mother is dead. When evidence emerges that her mother may still be alive inside the system that transformed her, Carla leaves the safety of the sovereign community that raised her and ventures into the heart of the Caribbean Republic.
As she navigates a society built on surveillance, efficiency, and mandatory technological augmentation, Carla discovers that the qualities that make her an outsider may be the very things capable of challenging the future being imposed on humanity.
Blending Caribbean futurism, political thriller, and intimate family drama, HUMANOS explores who gets left behind when progress becomes mandatory—and whether humanity can survive its own reinvention.
The World of HUMANOS
In the aftermath of climate instability and economic upheaval, the Caribbean Republic emerged with an ambitious promise:
A cleaner future.
A stronger workforce.
A more equitable society.
Through a nationwide augmentation initiative, eligible workers are connected to an advanced artificial intelligence network designed to reduce the need for traditional data centers while powering much of the Republic’s economy.
Participants receive enhanced employment opportunities, health monitoring, access to cooling infrastructure, and increased economic security.
Citizens are told the system is safe.
Citizens are told the system is necessary.
Citizens are told the future depends on it.
And for many, those promises appear to be true.
Yet over time, a new reality begins to emerge.
The same technology that powers prosperity also creates new forms of dependency. Standardized citizens increasingly rely on approved cooling systems and designated service zones to maintain safe operating temperatures. Entire communities are reorganized around the infrastructure required to sustain the network.
What begins as progress slowly reshapes where people live, how they move, and ultimately who they become.
Expanding the World
El Colmado del Futuro
El Colmado del Futuro is the first public immersive experience set within the world of HUMANOS.
Visitors enter a Caribbean corner store operating under the policies of the Caribbean Republic, where government messaging, news broadcasts, consumer products, and interactive experiences reveal how technology influences labor, culture, and everyday life.
The installation serves as an entry point into the broader HUMANOS universe, allowing audiences to experience the systems, products, and social structures that shape the future before the feature film is completed.
Why a Headset-Free Experience?
Many immersive experiences rely on virtual reality headsets to transport audiences into another world.
For El Colmado del Futuro, we chose a different approach.
The Caribbean has long been shaped by gathering spaces, oral storytelling traditions, music, commerce, food, and community. Rather than isolating participants behind individual devices, this experience invites people to inhabit a shared physical environment together.
Visitors hear the same broadcasts, encounter the same products, witness the same messaging, and experience the same world side by side.
Technology may shape the future. But human connection remains at the center of this experience.
Language & World-building
The world of HUMANOS is intentionally multilingual.
Throughout El Colmado del Futuro, visitors encounter Spanish, English, and Haitian Creole woven into broadcasts, advertisements, government messaging, and everyday interactions.
These language choices are not decorative—they reflect the cultural realities of the Caribbean and the political landscape of the Caribbean Republic.
Spanish serves as the dominant language within the installation, reflecting the experience of navigating public life in many Caribbean communities while also positioning visitors inside the fictional nation that shapes the world of HUMANOS.
By encountering multiple languages simultaneously, visitors experience a small part of what it means to move through a society where identity, culture, history, and technology intersect every day.
Language itself becomes part of the storytelling.
About the Creator
Eunice Levis is a Dominican-American writer, director, and immersive storyteller from the Bronx, New York.
Her work explores labor, memory, migration, and emerging technology through grounded speculative worlds rooted in the Caribbean diaspora.
She was an inaugural participant in Tribeca Vital Stories and a fellow in the AGOG XR Creators Lab. She also participated in the American Film Institute DWW+ program, where she developed the short film HUMANO, the project that inspired the feature film HUMANOS and the immersive installation El Colmado del Futuro.
Her previous work includes Ro & the Stardust, an Oscar-qualified short film distributed by Netflix and DUST.
In addition to filmmaking, Levis creates immersive installations that blend cinema, performance, and emerging media to explore how technology reshapes culture, memory, and human connection.
Follow the Journey
The world of HUMANOS will continue expanding through film, immersive experiences, community engagement, and interactive storytelling projects.
The future is being imagined now.
Through film, immersive experiences, and community engagement, HUMANOS invites audiences to explore how emerging technologies reshape labor, identity, community, and opportunity.
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As the world continues to evolve, HUMANOS asks a simple question:
Who gets left behind when progress becomes mandatory?