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REEDUCATED, 2021

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‘Reeducated’ is an animated, ambisonic 360 V.R. film that reconstructs the experience of detention and political reëducation in Xinjiang, China, guided by the recollections of three men who were caught in what is likely the largest mass-internment drive of ethnic and religious minorities since the Second World War.

“Reeducated is as haunting as it is artistically impressive. The film’s detailed black and white ink illustrations, hand-drawn by artist Matt Huynh, are intricate and gorgeous, and lace together a poignant, heartbreaking depiction of the narrators’ experiences.... It's impossible to look away.”

Foreign Policy

“Art explores abstract truths, and when it is paired with rigorous journalism, readers are able to understand a story in a way that is closer to how they experience the world itself.”

EYEBEAM

“Despite extensive news reporting about China’s secretive “reeducation” camps, it is difficult to imagine what it’s like for more than a million Uyghur, Kazakh and other minorities detained inside. [Reeducated] aims to put you in their shoes — almost literally — with the help of virtual reality technology.”

Variety

“Reeducated seems like an obvious frontrunner for the Emmy in Outstanding Interactive Program; the medium injects immediacy into stories of persecution that might otherwise seem tragic but remote.

IndieWire

“This is a work of true journalism -- the kind of journalism that can make a difference and change you at your core. ... It is also a beautiful piece of art, both as an interactive feature and as a VR film.”

XRMagazine

“Reeducated offers a glimpse into a horrifying world obscured from public view. ... It’s a striking piece of 360 cinema that makes a clear argument for the unique affordances of immersive formats for telling stories, establishing a powerful logic and vocabulary through the use of composition, scale, pace, and perspective.”

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AWARDS

Emmy Award Winner, Outstanding Interactive Media
Peabody Award Winner, Immersive and Interactive
SXSW Film Festival 2021, Special Jury Recognition for Immersive Journalism
SXSW Film Festival 2021, World Premiere
78th Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia, Best of VR
VRHAM! Festival 2021, VRHAMMY Grand Prize
New Images Festival 2021, Special Jury Prize
Online Journalism Awards 2021, ‘Excellence in Immersive Storytelling’
Online Journalism Awards 2021, ’Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling’
Overseas Press Club of America 2022, The Joe and Laurie Dine Award (citation), ‘Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights’

CREDITS
Featuring Erbaqyt Otarbai, Orynbek Koksebek, Amanzhan Seituly Project Developed by Ben Mauk, Sam Wolson Director Sam Wolson Artist Matt Huynh Research and Reporting Ben Mauk Executive Producers Soo-Jeong Kang, Monica Racic Lead Animator and Technical Supervisor Nicholas Rubin Senior Editor Brian Redondo Producers Ben Mauk, Sam Wolson, Nicholas Rubin, Matt Huynh Sound Designer/Composer Jon Bernson Assistant Animator Oliver Carr Lead Compositor Noel Paul VFX Artist Eddy Moya Story Edit Ben Mauk, Sam Wolson Animation Studio Dirt Empire Titles Designer Maxx Berkowitz Additional Title Designer Sandra Garcia Color Grading Noel Paul Ink Bleed Matvey Rezanov Artist Assistant M. J. Steele English-Language Recording Engineer Asqat Yerkimbay Kazakh/English Audio Asqat Yerkimbay, Baubek Sagyndyq English-Language Voice-Over Artists Nurbek Matzhani, Asqat Yerkimbay, Anonymous Kazakh-Language Recording Engineer Sam Wolson Transcription and Translations Dauren Aben, Anonymous Map Locations of Detention Centers Nathan Ruser, Australian Strategic Policy Institute Fact Checker Linnea Feldman Emison Singing Erbaqyt Otarbai Special Thanks Gene Bunin, The Xinjiang Victims Database, Nathan Ruser, Darren Byler, Sonya Teich, Christina Gossmann, Carleen Coulter. With support from Pulitzer Center, Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism & Online News Association

INSIDE XINJIANG’S PRISON STATE, 2021

The New Yorker’s interactive feature investigating the secret reeducation centers in Xinjiang, China - the largest internment of ethnic and religious minorities since World War II - and the surveillance, persecution and forced assimilation across Xinjiang. It is the New Yorker’s most ambitious immersive visual storytelling project ever published. The multimedia project visualises stories and settings that have been inaccessible and never seen before, based on cross-referenced eyewitness accounts.

This project was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism and Online News Association.

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