Awards, Press and Showcases
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Sundance Premiere
Still Here premiered as an installation at the 2020 Sundance film festival, in Park City, Utah. The project was selected as part of the New Frontier category that spotlights “cutting-edge independent and experimental media works by creators who are pushing artistic innovation across mediums.”
Still Here’s inclusion in the Sundance lineup was published in numerous media outlets.
LinkNYC Campaign
We collaborated with LinkNYC to promote Still Here during the entire month of February for Black History Month. The campaign appeared on more than 3,000 digital screens across the five boroughs of New York City - Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten Island.
Press
Still Here has been reviewed and praised by media in the US and internationally for its creativity, innovation and community focused storytelling.
AP News: “Still Here represents a pioneering transmedia approach to storytelling and signifies a new direction in collaborative and community-centered, immersive journalism.”
Essence: Still Here is a “must see”
Cool Hunting: Still Here “will undeniably continue beyond the festival - and should be sought out elsewhere, too.”
Black Girl Nerds: Still Here “signifies a new direction in collaborative and community-centered, immersive journalism.”
Park City Magazine: Still Here is “an unexpectedly moving, immersive, multimedia installation.”
VR Scout: “Despite the relatively short time they’ve been active, Rasool and her all-female team have already established themselves as one of the most innovative and exciting groups of creators working in the field of immersive activism.”
The Moguldom Nation: Still Here “is really a feat.”
NY Amsterdam News: “Still Here represents an invigorating use of transmedia to storytelling.”
Voices of VR Podcast: Still Here “did a great job of being able to connect the dots between the collective and universal experience of mass incarceration, but grounded within the personalized dramatization and narrative.”
Al Jazeera: "Still Here: A story of incarceration and gentrification in the US"
Ms. Magazine: “Easily the most remarkable exhibition was Still Here—a striking and impressive multimedia installation.”
Immerse: “What Life in Solitary Confinement Can Teach Us About Quarantine”