San Francisco’s Mission District makes international news when its struggle against the city’s tech boom infiltrates its most sacred ground: the soccer field. This film was made by a team of four of us over the course of five days for the 2014 Fusion Documentary Challenge. It was a finalist.
Category: Television
The hidden cost of Medicaid
I reported, produced and edited this piece for the PBS NewsHour.
Thieves in Sacred Groves
Old-growth coastal redwoods–the tallest trees in the world–only exist in the Northern California region. Due to heavy logging, only a small percentage of these giants are left today. Some are being attacked. Money-hungry poachers are cutting off the burls (the knobby growths, usually at the bottom of the tree) and selling them for hundreds of dollars per slab. This story is (Produced by Sally Schilling Shooters: Courtney Quirin and Mark Kurlyandchik.)
KQED Newsroom also acquired a version of the story:
Sally Schilling 