Projects

Children of Farmworkers in California’s Central Valley Face Annual Academic Disruptions

In the summer of his junior year, Luis Miguel was struggling to stay in high school. He and his family of four – who work various agricultural jobs from picking blueberries and cherries to pruning grapes and canning tomatoes – live in one of California’s 24 migrant family housing centers.

Article for UPenn’s Center on Digital Culture and Society: “Toward Critical Reflexivity in Non-fiction VR”

Article for UPenn’s Center on Digital Culture and Society: “Toward Critical Reflexivity in Non-fiction VR”

by Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz & Liz Miller Originally published in The Digital Radical, a publication of the Center on Digital Culture and Society at The University of Pennsylvania EXCERPT As documentary filmmakers, the concept of power is essential to how we think about shaping and telling stories. We consider ourselves digital radicals because we both […]

How to Tell A True Immigrant Story

How to Tell A True Immigrant Story

Director, 360º Documentary

In performative, poetic tapestry, a Latinx community in New York responds to racial profiling, ICE surveillance, constrictions of the “immigrant” label, and documentary's complicity.

Presente Saratoga

Co-Creative

Presente Saratoga

Co-Creative

Co-Director, Multimedia Documentary Performance

A co-created performance ethnography to bring into dialogue two segregated communities while requiring audiences to embody the experience of navigating the norms and expectations of defamiliarized spaces.

Ele

Ele

Co-Director, 360º Documentary

A young man from Oaxaca, Mexico relfects on creating possibilities for himself and his indigenous Triqui community in the United States.

City Harvest Documentary: A Collaboration with Digital Editing Students

City Harvest Documentary: A Collaboration with Digital Editing Students

Producer & Editing Supervisor

A collaboration between my Digital Editing class and Termite TV Collective to log and edit Deb Rudman's newest City Harvest documentary.

Abuelito Fue Bracero

Abuelito Fue Bracero

Director, Community-Based, Multi-Platform Collaboration

Collaboration with Luis Magaña & 67 Sueños to preserve stories of former Bracero farmworkers in Stockton, California while investigating ways in which Bracero histories inform today's US-Mexico immigration policies.

Gentrification in Allentown: Collaboration between Documentary Class & Community Partners

Co-Creative, Documentary, Non-Profit

Gentrification in Allentown: Collaboration between Documentary Class & Community Partners

Co-Creative, Documentary, Non-Profit

Co-Director, Community- and Classroom-Based Documentary

In the fall of 2018, my Intro to Documentary class partnered with Allentown Coalition for Economic Dignity, artist Drew Swedberg, and Assessment and Outreach Librarian, Jess Denke, to provide community-based perspectives of Allentown gentrification.

Us in Pieces: from 7Sides (on Cyrus Cylinder)

Us in Pieces: from 7Sides (on Cyrus Cylinder)

Director, Documentary Short Collection

7 Iranian filmmakers from around the world reflect on history, identity, and nation-state.

Inheritance

Inheritance

Director, Documentary Short

A lyrical memoir about diaspora, memory, and the relationship between political and personal tremors.

La Casa de Mamá Icha

La Casa de Mamá Icha

Co-Producer, Feature-Length Documentary

After 30+ years living in the U.S., 93-year-old Maria Dionisia Navarro decides to return to Colombia and live in the home she built there with remittances. Directed by Colombian filmmaker Oscar Molina.

Review of Video Series, “The Fruit of Our Labour” for Reorient Mag

Film Reviews, Writing

Review of Video Series, “The Fruit of Our Labour” for Reorient Mag

Film Reviews, Writing

It starts, as many great films do, with a black screen; then, a flicker. Through snatches of light, a woman is revealed, a headscarf tied at her neck, her body leaning over a table to light a kerosene lantern.

Border Crossing and Genre Bending: A Conversation with Jesikah Maria Ross

Co-Creative, Writing

Border Crossing and Genre Bending: A Conversation with Jesikah Maria Ross

Co-Creative, Writing

There may be no image better equipped to illustrate Jesikah Maria Ross's body of work than that of a bridge.

Op-Ed: “Stronger Together: Why We Need a National Youth Media Network”

Non-Profit, Writing

Op-Ed: “Stronger Together: Why We Need a National Youth Media Network”

Non-Profit, Writing

Since its inception three decades ago, the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) serves as a facilitator of, and supporting mechanism for the work of the independent media arts. Through collaboration and dialogue with our national community of members, we design programming that fosters and fortifies the field and provides space for independent voices and diverse perspectives to flourish.

Community and Self-Care in Documentary Work

Community and Self-Care in Documentary Work

Around 4am on the morning of December 12, 2016, nearly 30 men, women and children were swaddling themselves in their warmest winter shawls, preparing hot beans and hot cocoa, and scooping up candles, toddlers, and guitars to step out into the Central Valley pre-dawn frost to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe.

In a City Where 15 Percent of Voters Elected the Mayor, Downtown Is Claiming Power

In a City Where 15 Percent of Voters Elected the Mayor, Downtown Is Claiming Power