FILMMAKER
Patricia Nazario is an award-winning bilingual filmmaker, journalist and producer with more than 20 years of experience spanning broadcast news, documentary filmmaking and live production. A graduate of UCLA and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, she has earned five Golden Mike Awards, four L.A. Press Club Awards, Associated Press honors and three congressional recognitions.
Nazario wrote, directed, produced and edited Backstreet to the American Dream, an award-winning feature documentary exploring race, class, immigration, labor and the American Dream. Executive produced by civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, the film has screened at 14 film festivals, earned 18 awards and commendations, and is now nationally distributed to educational institutions through New Day Films.
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A global story about race, labor, class, and economic survival unfolds through two contrasting worlds of Los Angeles entrepreneurship.
This award-winning bilingual documentary follows blue-collar and immigrant entrepreneurs from radically different backgrounds as they pursue their piece of the American Dream. Moving between survival and success, visibility and invisibility, the informal economy and the mainstream marketplace, the film asks enduring questions: Whose labor is valued? How do race and class shape economic opportunity?
Executive produced by civil rights icon Dolores Huerta, with promotional support from Jarritos.