"Reporting for TV: Challenges and Opportunities", Brazilian Reporter & Producer

Débora Silva, a Brazilian producer and reporter living in

California, recently won
an award at the 2013 Bay Area Women in Film and Media (BAWIM)
Festival for her short documentary, Oakland Story, and is a finalist at
the 2014 CreaTV Awards for two television segments she produced.

She will
share her experiences about reporting for television, her reasons and
experiences as a journalist, and how she ended up at U. C Berkeley pursuing a
graduate degree in Broadcast Journalism. As part of her presentation, she will
also share two TV segments she produced:- 

Oakland Story

(Segment about an Oakland resident whose first-hand experience with gun

violence dramatically changed this woman’s life.)

- Soccer
Love: (Segment

about São Paulo, Brazil, where residents (a group of more than 300

families from the slum Comunidade Favela da Paz), who initially expected

to benefit from the World Cup, now live in fear that the government will evict

them at any moment due to their proximity to an important World Cup venue.

Débora started her career in broadcast
journalism at a television station in São Paulo, Brazil. She worked for four
years as a reporter and producer for Extensao.Doc, a documentary program
covering social and political issues, where she interviewed a wide range of
people including then President, Lula da Silva. 

In 2009, Débora moved to
California to pursue a career as an international correspondent and producer. In
the United States, she worked as a freelancer associate producer for KQED
Public Television in San Francisco (PBS) and is currently pursuing a Master’s
Degree in Broadcast Journalism at the University of California Berkeley. Débora
graduates from the UC Berkeley Master’s program in May 2014.