Image from Reducated, courtesy of Nicholas Rubin
ITP Alum, Nicholas Rubin, is the Creative Director at Dirt Empire. The company was awarded a documentary Emmy for Outstanding Innovation for their VR Doc, Reeducated, that they made with The New Yorker.
Directed by Sam Wolson, This virtual-reality documentary takes viewers inside one of Xinjiang’s “reëducation” camps, guided by the recollections of three men—Erbaqyt Otarbai, Orynbek Koksebek, and Amanzhan Seituly—who were imprisoned together at a facility in Tacheng.
From the New Yorker:
The 43rd Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards honors programming content from more than 2500 submissions that originally premiered in calendar-year 2021, judged by a pool of over 870 peer professionals from across the television and streaming/digital media News & Documentary industry.