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Request a demoJika González is an award-winning documentary filmmaker from Mexico City. She is based in New York where she works as a freelance cinematographer and producer. She holds a M.S. from the Columbia Journalism School where she occasionally teaches video and photography. Her work has taken her across the US and around the world where she has focused on telling stories about identity, the human consequences of immigration policy, and climate change. She prefers to work with a light footprint, shoots most of her work handheld, and seeks to capture raw and intimate moments with authenticity. The stories she's worked on have been acknowledged with five News and Documentary Emmys, a Peabody, and an Overseas Press Club award. Get in touch at jika.gonzalez [at] gmail [dot] com
The airport in Guatemala City is a revolving door for deported migrants. As soon as they get off the airplane and through the doors that lead them back into their country, almost half the returnees turn right back towards the north. See the full stroy at TIME: time.com/3063232/guatemala-us-deportations/
Sam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University, uses "chip grafting" to create trees that each bear 40 different varieties of stone fruits, or fruits with pits. The grafting process involves slicing a bit of a branch with a bud from a tree of one of the varieties and inserting it into a slit in a branch on the "working tree," then wrapping the wound with tape until it heals and the b
Snow brings beauty, not chaos, to New York City. Though it created havoc for much of New England, the storm did not live up to its hype in the Big Apple. But it still created some beautiful images of quiet streets and happy children in a winter wonderland.
This critical international civic engagement course engages the perils, paradoxes, and promises of contemporary Cambodia by combining intensive experiential learning with an academically rigorous examination of the politics of international development that make up the Cambodian present.
Maryann and Raymond Eger started dating when they were teenagers in New Dorp Beach, Staten Island. They have been together for over forty years, raising their family in the same house that Maryann was born in. Now, hurricane Sandy may force them to leave the place they have always called home.
For the first time in his life, ninety-two-year-old Frank Catalfumo has stopped working at F & C Shoe Rebuilding in South Brooklyn, the shop he inherited from his father after World War II. Now the shop is run by Frank’s son Michael, who has also followed in his father’s footsteps.
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