Andres Cediel

Andres Cediel

andresacediel@gmail.com

Website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/rape-in-the-fields/

   Berkeley, CA

Andrés Cediel is known for his work on Rape in the Fields (2013), which investigates the hidden reality of rape on the job for immigrant women, for Frontline, and the Spanish-language version, “Violacion de un Sueno,” for Univision.

Andrés Cediel was the Co-Producer on the Emmy-nominated film, “The Judge and the General,” which chronicled human rights cases against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. This film received a duPont-Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast journalism.

Cediel was also the Co-Producer on “Post Mortem”, a collaborative reporting project between Frontline, NPR and ProPublica, looking at death investigation in America.

Cediel has produced pieces on refugees of violence in Colombia, environmental justice in Ecuador, and Native American burial desecration in California. He worked as a Master Video Teacher in KQED’s Education Network, and was awarded a Visual Arts Fellowship by Arts Council Silicon Valley for 2007.

Cediel graduated from Brown University and received a Masters degree in Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley.

MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST

What did the Fellowship or Laureate mean to you at the time you received it?

It was validation that my work has meaning and value.

What do you do now? Has your art evolved or changed?

I'm doing much the same thing, producing documentaries. My work has dealt much more directly with current social issues, and is less historical. I?m part of the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and work for PBS Frontline. The film ?Rape in the Fields,? which I wrote, produced, and directed for Frontline, recently won a 2014 duPont-Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast journalism. You can see the film here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/inside-frontline/frontline-wins-dupont-columbia-award-for-rape-in-the-fields/

What is one piece of advice you would give to an emerging artist?

Don't be afraid of making mistakes.

Briefly, how would you describe the state of the arts locally, as well as national and beyond?

Irrepressible