Losing Ground

Co-produced, co-directed, co-wrote; sound, second camera

Premiered June 2019 on The Atlantic Selects: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/591832/climate-refugees/

“The Sundarbans is one of the most vulnerable areas to climate change in the world; 70 percent of the land is just a few feet above sea level. In some parts of the region, the sea is already advancing about 200 yards a year. Mousuni Island is experiencing the worst effects of the changing climate; Most of the land is now barren. In the past decade, the island’s inhabitants have seen their houses and livelihoods destroyed. It is now primarily home to women, children, and elderly people—more than half of the male population has migrated to urban areas for work. What was once a self-sustaining agricultural community is now on the front lines of the climate crisis.” (Shortened excerpt from The Atlantic interview by Emily Buder)

After the Fires Came

A short video about the experience of one undocumented immigrant and his family during the Tubbs fire in northern California in October 2017. Produced, photographed, and edited for an immigration reporting class at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. See the story here.