IMAGE FROM REEDUCATED, COURTESY OF NICHOLAS RUBIN
ITP Alum, Nicholas Rubin, is the Creative Director at Dirt Empire. The company that was previously awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Innovation for Reeducated won a Peabody award for the virtual reality documentary that they made with The New Yorker. This is the first Peabody Award won by The New Yorker.
Directed by Sam Wolson, This virtual-reality documentary takes viewers inside one of Xinjiang’s “reeducation” camps, guided by the recollections of three men—Erbaqyt Otarbai, Orynbek Koksebek, and Amanzhan Seituly—who were imprisoned together at a facility in Tacheng.
Learn more on The New Yorker page and Peabody.