San José Province, San José, Costa Rica
$200 - $500 / Day
Video producer and journalist. Editor. Photographer.
In a south-side conservative suburb of San José, a public high school is becoming an inspiration for the Costa Rican government to achieve its goal of teaching LGBTI rights among students
She studies Dentistry at the University of Costa Rica and is the mother of a child. She is being forced to return to Nicaragua - where she was born and barely knows - six years after serving a prison sentence for a crime she alleges she did not commit.
When Anyurety Castillo was born 24 years ago in the Caribbean province of Limón, her family received a unique and momentous news: she was a boy. Her mother says that no one explained how or why Anyurety had atypical genitalia or possibly manifested unexpected changes during puberty, as finally happened. More on: https://www.ameliarueda.com/especiales/intersexualidad/
I scripted and edited this heart-breaking small documentary about Guanacastecan farmers (Pacific Costa Rica) that are dying from Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) but also from abandonment, poverty, endless days under the relentless Guanacaste sun, a lack of hydration and ignorance.
Produced for Presidencia Costa Rica
Costa Rica is one of the first countries to involve the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the state in the design and implementation of its national open government agenda. What is that about?
Produced for Presidencia Costa Rica
Traveling to rural indigenous communities and involving critics from civil society, Costa Rica paved the process that allowed establishing the National Strategy for an Open Government.
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