the new yorker on Thursday won its first Emmy Award, in the Outstanding Interactive Media category, for “Reeducated”, a virtual reality documentary which takes viewers to one of China’s “re-education” camps in Xinjiang. The award was presented on the second documentary-focused night of the News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
Guided by the memories of three men who were imprisoned together in the same facility, “Reeducated,” directed by Sam Wolson, uses hours of first-hand testimony, combined with hand-drawn animation by Matt Huynh, to reconstruct this which is probably the largest mass internment of ethnic and religious minorities since World War II. The film report was produced by Ben Mauk, whose accompanist New Yorker story, “Inside Xinjiang Prison Statereceived two online journalism awards in 2021. The film’s lead animator and technical supervisor, Nicholas Rubin, and its composer and sound designer, Jon Bernson, worked to capture the visual and auditory experience of the detention center .
“The New Yorker The team behind this breathtaking and haunting film deeply understands the power of visual journalism, and they saw an innovative way to portray one of the most horrific human rights abuses of the modern era,” David Remnick, editor of the new yorkersaid.
Based on the eyewitness accounts of Erbaqyt Otarbai, Orynbek Koksebek and Amanzhan Seituly, “Reeducated” documents China’s persecution of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim minorities – who keep on going. The film premiered at SXSW, winning special recognition from the jury, and has since screened at the Venice Film Festival and dozens of other festivals around the world.
The film was supported by the Pulitzer Center, the Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism and the Online News Association. ♦
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