documentaries
“You brought me a history that isn’t my own, but for which I get homesick”
— Viewer response to Nasario remembers the Rio Puerco, a documentary
Nasario remembers the Río Puerco
Returning to the ruins of a remote valley where he grew up, New Mexico folklorist Nasario García unearths memories of a time before the rains stopped, when the Hispanic villages flourished with stories of land, river, animals, magic and myth.
Documentary, 60 minutes. Broadcast on New Mexico New Mexico PBS in October 2017, selected to the Golden Door International and Taos Environmental Film Festivals’; screened in New Mexico and Spain.
published in the Santa Fe Literary Review, 2017
Documentaries - summary
Documentaries have been broadcast on American Public Television, National Public Radio, The Discovery Channel, Noggin/Nickelodeon and BBC Radio Four; received a Telly award and a South Asian Journalists' Association (SAJA) Best Documentary Award.
TV projects include: producer/director of Desi, a documentary for PBS Channel 13 about the South Asian community in New York, story-editor of four episodes of On the Team, (Noggin/Nickelodeon) and co-producer of The Empire State Building (Discovery Channel.) Along with Shashwati Talukdar, received the James T. Yee Mentorship Award from the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) for the short fiction feature, Ghosts, based on my short story.
on the move in mongolia
There I was, an Indian woman on the move in a strange new land - Mongolia - and it didn't feel so strange. So much resonated - especially the voices of other women - like Monjago, a nomadic herder, Munkhtsetseg, a horse trainer, Onika, a student, Amgalan, a language teacher and Jainaa, a singer. They made faraway feel like home." Produced for Outer Voices. Story Consultant/Executive Producer: Stephanie Guyer-Stevens. Post-production funding from The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation and The Lucius & Eva Eastman Fund. Visit storiesfromthesteppe.com
Radio
Producer/editor of a half-hour radio/digital documentary about Mongolian women, On the Move in Mongolia. World radio premiere on KUNM (89.9 fm, Albuquerque) program Women's Focus in October 2012. The documentary was produced for Outer Voices with Story Consultant/Executive Producer, Stephanie Guyer-Stevens. Visit Stories from the Steppe for more from Mongolia.
Other RADIO projects include Bollywood Goes Borscht, on the nostalgia for Indian films within the Russian emigré community and Calling Home, on pay phone centers, both for NPR's On the Media and Blyton in Bombay, a 30-minute BBC Radio Four program about the impact of British children's writer, Enid Blyton on generations of Indians. (producer and editor) and pieces for NPR's Weekend Edition.
Indie Projects: Produced, shot and edited a multimedia documentation project for the Santa Fe-based Institute of American Indian Arts’ Center for Lifelong Education (CLE), edited a short documentary for Rivers Run Through Us and co-produced/edited a story video for Hamaatsa, an indigenous learning center and several short videos for non-profits and events