The Onyx Project, being released today, is the world's first-ever truly interactive, "hyperlinked" movie--the first fully browseable motion picture. It utilizes a brand-new, patent-pending technology, called NAVδ, the next frontier in alternative media. Web River Media, Inc. is the inventor and owner of NAV™.

David Strathairn, the Oscar-nominated lead of George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, stars in a powerful story--a story that the viewer gets to shape--about war, politics, and human connection.

The Onyx Project is being released today on a DVD that plays on any late-model Windows XP computer with a DVD drive and QuickTime installed. An online version of the NAV technology is also in the works from Web River Media.

Described by The New York Times as "nonlinear storytelling for the digital age" and by genartpulse.com as "the future of film", the NAV video story-telling architecture allows the creation of fully interactive films. It is a radical new approach to storytelling that provides the creative community with an innovative canvas on which to make and tell stories--at a fraction of the cost of a conventional movie. NAV allows viewers to literally choose their own path (there are millions of them) through the material. Each viewer receives a unique story experience, yet all viewers have a common frame of reference for discussion.

Written and directed by Larry Atlas, The Onyx Project tells the story of Robert Henderson--a colonel with the U.S. Army Special Forces in Afghanistan--played by Strathairn in a mesmerizing performance. In October 2004 (shortly before the Presidential election that returned George W. Bush to the White House), Henderson launched a "rogue" mission designed to capture a high-profile Al Qaeda target. That operation, code-named Onyx, was a catastrophe; and in its tragic aftermath, Henderson must confront his thoughts and actions, his entire life, both professional and personal, and his responsibility for what has occurred. His story is also our story--the story of a struggle between faith and reason, between traditions and new realities, between loyalty and conviction. As conveyed through the mosaic of The Onyx Project, Henderson's story defies simplistic political classification. It is not about "right versus left"--but rather right versus wrong.

"I thought to approach the material much in the same way I felt Henderson himself did," comments Strathairn, "as an innocent, as perhaps a child might search through the scrapbooks and relics and 'toys' of his life. And even though it is obviously a highly personal journey--since he is essentially holding himself accountable for who and why he 'is,' as well as for the deaths of his men--I felt that a certain amount of objectivity, almost as if he were reporting it, was important, to present this courageous and honorable accounting."

The Onyx Project website is at www.theonyxproject.com. It was directed by Larry Atlas and produced by Gail Freedman, with Executive Producers Doug & Jane Smith. Internationally renowned composer Richard Einhorn created the music, and Jim Sofranko served as Director of Photography. The original NAV interface design was by Lisa Strausfeld and Jim Biber of Pentagram, New York. The NAV software is by DataArt Solutions, Inc.