Shows
Nieman StoryboardThe New Yorker's Sam Wolson on interactive storytelling about a mother and her trans teenager leaving the U.S.The New Yorker’s Interactives Visual Features Editor Sam Wolson joins Storyboard Editor Mark Armstrong for a conversation about his latest story, “There’s No Place at Home: A Mother and Her Trans Teen Decide to Leave the U.S.,” about a mother and her trans teenager deciding to move to Mexico after President Trump’s efforts to restrict gender-affirming care. The story is an interactive visual feature that combines photorealistic 3D models — using photos taken at the family’s house in Maine — with illustrations by Lilli Carré and reporting and writing by Wolson. For Wolson, “ there was something really...
2025-09-1159 min
In The DarkSeason 3 Bonus: “Cleared by Fire”For the past year, the Interactives Department at The New Yorker has been working alongside In the Dark on a remarkable visual exploration of what happened that day in Haditha. Sam Wolson, who co-directed the project, joins the podcast to talk about “Cleared by Fire.” Find the interactive documentary at newyorker.com/season3. Got questions for the In the Dark team? E-mail them to us at inthedark@newyorker.com.
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2024-09-2711 min
re:publica 17 - All SessionsConflict Zones, VR Documentary Storytelling and Confronting CensorshipHow can VR be used to combat censorship in oppressive regimes and what are the challenges of VR documentary storytelling in the future
Sam WolsonDirector Sam Wolson will explore some of the challenges in VR documentary storytelling in this talk, drawing from firsthand experience shooting We Who Remain in a Sudanese war zone. How can VR be used to combat censorship and oppressive regimes? How do you create a narrative in a medium whose language is not yet established? How do you get VR films out to the world?We Who Remain, which premiered this year at t...
2017-05-1029 min
re:publica 17 - Arts & CultureConflict Zones, VR Documentary Storytelling and Confronting CensorshipHow can VR be used to combat censorship in oppressive regimes and what are the challenges of VR documentary storytelling in the future
Sam WolsonDirector Sam Wolson will explore some of the challenges in VR documentary storytelling in this talk, drawing from firsthand experience shooting We Who Remain in a Sudanese war zone. How can VR be used to combat censorship and oppressive regimes? How do you create a narrative in a medium whose language is not yet established? How do you get VR films out to the world?We Who Remain, which premiered this year at t...
2017-05-1029 min