Patricia Nazario, M.S.
Patricia Nazario is an award-winning bilingual filmmaker, journalist and producer with expertise spanning broadcast news, documentary filmmaking and live production. A graduate of UCLA and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, she has earned an Emmy Award as associate producer, five Golden Mike honors, 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. 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.
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.
SCREENINGS, TALKS,
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Patricia Nazario brings Backstreet to the American Dream to campuses and community events with screenings, Q&As, keynotes and workshops in English and Spanish. She is also available for reporting, producing and documentary projects.