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#1212: Breakdown of Award-Winning “Reeducated” VR Doc & Translation into Interactive Component of Yorker Article on Chinese Prison Camps

#1212: Breakdown of Award-Winning “Reeducated” VR Doc & Translation into Interactive Component of Yorker Article on Chinese Prison Camps

FromVoices of VR


#1212: Breakdown of Award-Winning “Reeducated” VR Doc & Translation into Interactive Component of Yorker Article on Chinese Prison Camps

FromVoices of VR

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Length:
64 minutes
Released:
May 12, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The immersive documentary Reeducated won a Peabody Award as well as the Outstanding Interactive Media winner of the New Approaches category of the New & Documentary Emmy in 2022. I had a chance to record this interview with the co-directors Ben Mauk and Sam Wolson just after it’s world premiere at SXSW 2021 (where it picked up a Special Jury Recognition for Immersive Journalism). This 360-video was based upon oral history testimony of 3 different prisoners within one of China’s reeducation centers within the Xinjiang region, and it was translated into an interactive component of the investigative journalism piece by Mauk published in the New Yorker titled “Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State: Survivors of China’s campaign of persecution reveal the scope of the devastation,” I had a chance to break down the creative process and story with both Mauk and Wolson back on March 18, 2021 exploring how this same story is told across these different formats using the unique affordances of print media, immersive 360 video, and an interactive translation of this spatial content embedded on the web.
Released:
May 12, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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