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Now Leaving Colorado City, limited launch

This 24 minute documentary explores the origins of the FLDS church, and what it means to try and reconcile a challenging religious past with a bright and hopeful future.

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“INDIA: A Pound of Flesh” wins SAJA Award

The short documentary I made about India’s black market trade in human kidneys was selected by the South Asian Journalists Association as the “Outstanding story about South Asia, or South Asians in North America: New Media” for 2007.

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News21 Carnegie/Knight Fellowships Announced

I was selected to be be a News21 fellow this summer as part of the Carnegie/Knight 21st Century News Initiative. Our theme this year is ‘Religion’ and I’m producing a short doc about life after polygamy in the FLDS church.

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CNS: BELIEFS Wins Emmy

The News Magazine show called Beliefs I produced last year with Raquel Marial Dillon and Jason Blalock won an Emmy at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences College TV Awards ceremony in the News Magazine Category.

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“A Fragile Trust” Currently in Production

A Fragile Trust tells the dramatic story of Jayson Blair and Macarena Hernandez, two reporters who became entangled in a scandal that brought the New York Times to what publisher Arthur Sulzberger called “the low-point in the 152 year history of the paper.”

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