Videos for The Beach Reporter / The Daily Breeze
Hermosa Beach teen spearheads project to paint lifeguard tower rainbow for Pride Month
Eighteen-year-old Izzy Bacallao pushed to have a lifeguard tower in Hermosa Beach painted rainbow in honor of Pride Month. They came up with the idea after learning a Pride lifeguard tower had been burned down in Long Beach.
Redondo Beach artist finds inner artist amid pandemic
Throughout the pandemic, Carol Schreiner has been working to create chalk and bottle cap art work in her Redondo Beach neighborhood. Since the start of the pandemic, though she’s lost track, she estimates she has created 30 to 40 art pieces.
South Bay Cares attends 2018 Los Angeles Women’s March
More than 250 women and men from the nonprofit South Bay Cares attended the 2018 Women’s March in Los Angeles.
Fernando’s of Redondo Beach
Fernando and Renessa Adames were supposed to retire. After 30 years in Hermosa Beach, the husband and wife duo went for smaller square footage at their Riviera Village shop.“We’re back by popular demand,” Fernando said. Fernando, who keeps a sewing machine in the back of the shop, sells clothes and home accessories out of his Redondo Beach storefront. Many are custom, like his collection of jean jackets, which come to the store simple, only to have colorful patches included—a touch of Fernando. Fernando, who is from Bogota, Colombia, said he started sewing out of necessity. Anyone can sew, Fernando said. But what he has, is an eye for texture. The eye of a designer.
Videos for SELA Strong
I worked as a producer, editor and shooter for this mini-doc series. The series attempted to shed life in Southeast Los Angeles during the pandemic.
Strong Joe and Kristian
Joe and Kristian, nurses who’ve worked in a hospital throughout the course of the COVID-19, have seen a side of the pandemic the layman couldn’t begin to fathom. Joe talks about training the front-line nurses about Personal Protective Equipment, PPE shortages and of his insights about the Black Lives Matter movement. Kristian speaks of his passion for his profession and also speaks to the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic that others can’t see.
Elizabeth
Just days after Elizabeth Alcantar was sworn in as mayor of Cudahy, a Delta airplane dumped fuel in Cudahy, dousing an elementary school in the process. Elizabeth talks about her city’s response to the jet fuel dump, as well as how the city is grappling with the pandemic amid the chaos of the civil unrest caused by the homicide of George Floyd.
Videos for Life Adjacent
I worked as a producer, editor and shooter for this mini-doc series. The series examined life in Los Angeles County by telling the stories of those from different walks of life.
Once a month on a Sunday, chef Becky Reams hosts her Bang Bang Brunch. It is a unique and intimate monthly pop-up brunch. Each brunch is at a different location with different people.
Robert Williams (YnG-RobB), better known as the poet on the train, recites his poetry for Los Angeles Metro passengers. By the time he was 18, Robert knew that the wages of his life of guns and drugs would be death. So he decided to change his life and use his talent and tell his story to help others.