24 Feb 2/26/19 Zahra Rasool

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Zahra Rasool

Tuesday | February 26th | 12:30 – 2:00 PM
MIT Open Documentary Lab | E15-318
MIT Campus, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge MA 02139

Still Here

Zahra Rasool will talk about her project, Still Here, an interactive VR + AR experience about incarceration, gentrification and Afro futurism set in Harlem.

Zahra Rasool is the Head of Contrast— Al Jazeera’s immersive media studio where she focuses on the production of compelling 360-degree video, Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) content. Before joining Al Jazeera’s Innovation Team, she was the Managing Editor of HuffPost RYOT where she was responsible for RYOT’s editorial strategy, managing the content team and combining journalistic storytelling with VR and 360-degree technology and in 2015, she founded her own startup Gistory.

Her background is in documentary filmmaking and she is very passionate about new emerging platforms and immersive storytelling in shaping the future of the media.

Still Here collaborators: Naima Ramos-Chapman, writer-director on HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness will be writing and directing the Interactive VR piece. Carvell Wallace of the New Yorker, GQ and Closer Than They Appear will write the Audio AR piece.