A Shared Space (VR)
ABOUT
A Shared Space is a virtual reality film which tells the story of friends Hilowle and Shuab, who grew up in Dadaab, Kenya– the largest refugee camp in the world. Today, both have started families and call Lewiston, Maine home. Raising children in the country’s least diverse state in the wake of Trump’s Muslim Ban and rising nationalist sentiments has created challenges neither expected. Can Maine become a shared space?
Daniel Quintanilla is a Maine-based documentary filmmaker who grew up in a multicultural home in Mexico. He has collaborated on NSF-supported projects documenting endangered languages in the state of Maine and Mexico. Daniel's short documentary, Not A Citizen, was featured at the 2018 Camden International Film Festival and was also part of the national film tour Stories Beyond Borders. In 2018, Daniel edited The Most Unknown, a feature length science documentary for VICE / MOTHERBOARD. In collaboration with Lewiston-based filmmaker Shuab Mahat, Daniel produced the virtual reality documentary, A Shared Space: Lewiston which was featured at the 2018 Camden International Film Festival and also won the audience award at the 2019 Bates Film Festival. Daniel’s most recent virtual reality film, Returning to Dadaab, follows Shuab Mahat as he returns to Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya to see his mother and siblings for the first time, 15 years after resettlement to the U.S.
CREDITS
Shuab Mahat
Hilowle Aden
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