Alumni win an Emmy for VR documentary
The New Yorker has won an Emmy for Reeducated, an immersive VR documentary featuring the work of Nicholas Rubin 01 FAV, Oliver Carr 20 FAV and Rubin's studio Dirt Empire.
Reeducated received an award for Outstanding Interactive Media in the News and Documentary section.
Directed by Sam Wolson, with reporting by Ben Mauk, illustrations by Matt Huynh and animation by Dirt Empire’s Nicholas Rubin 01 FAV and Oliver Carr 20 FAV, Reeducated takes viewers inside the secret world of a “reëducation” camp in Xinjiang, China. Dirt Empire supervised all of the animation production of the project with a core team of visual effects artists to bring the project into stereoscopic virtual reality over the course of one year. Their goal in executing the highly technical animation was to make a hand painted world in keeping with Matt Huynh’s visual style, Sam Wolson’s directorial vision and Ben Mauk’s deep reporting—all in service to the gravity of the story while leveraging the immersive power of VR storytelling.
From the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences:
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.
