Betty Bastidas
Co-founder Director of Photography @Maracuya Productions
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WORK HISTORY
Co-founder Director of Photography @Maracuya Productions
Brooklyn, US
Maracuya Productions is a bi-cultural documentary production company focusing on stories of inspiration and injustice. We specialize in collaborations with Latino-oriented non-profit, advocacy, and policy organizations to create visually compelling stories. Below are short summaries of our video work:\"Can\'t Hold Me Back\" follows a student as he becomes the first in his family to earn a high school diploma-his ticket out of the struggles of inner-city poverty and violence in Detroit. With a mountain of roadblocks stacked against his educational achievement, Fernando finds support from an unlikely figure: his father-a former gangster who has suffered the costs of his own mistakes.\"DreamTown\" portrays the realities, triumphs and tragedies of three Afro-Ecuadorian players from El Chota Valley in Ecuador. This small valley home to a marginalized Afro community has lived isolated in poverty for hundreds of years, and where seven World Cup Soccer stars were born taking Ecuador to their first World Cup. We follow the journey of three soccer players as they make decisions and sacrifices to become professional athletes and fight to save their families and community.Additional Producer Credits:New American Girls, PBS.org Co-producer/Co-Director, 2013DreamTown, 16 min. Frontline World |PBS Documentary Producer/Director 2008 –6/10Life on the Run, 2 minute video story, UC Berkeley Producer, 2008May Day Youth Prepare, 3 minute news story, UC Berkeley Producer, 2009National Hip Hop Museum, 10 min. Promotional Video Cameraperson, 2008Urban World Poetry Slam, Documentary for Governess Films Cameraperson, 2008Talking with Wolves, 24 min. Educational Documentary Cameraperson, 2008Citizens of Nowhere, 20 min. Educational DVD Producer/Director 2006 –2008 Liberation, 16mm, 3 minute Experimental Film, Third World Newsreel Co-Director & producer, 2006
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley
Documentary Production, Documentary Film
NYU Stern School of Business
BS, Marketing/Management
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ABOUT BETTY BASTIDAS
I am a producer, director, photographer, land steward and media educator based in Hudson…
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