Patricia Nazario

Patricia Nazario has nearly 20-years of broadcast news experience. Her insightful and investigative reporting has won national and international recognition.

Patricia was in the graduate journalism program at Columbia University in New York City when terrorists attacked the twin towers on September 11th, 2001. She began filing radio reports about the tragedy and its aftermath for WFUV at Fordham University in the Bronx. That was her introduction to NPR-style analytical storytelling.

 

 

HOW PATRICIA FOUND THE STORY:
I was on assignment for a local news radio station when I covered the food truck issue for the first time.  I was using my flipcam to capture a tense situation near downtown when a man bullied me.  He stepped in front of my camera and demanded to know what I was doing.  I told him that I was a journalist on public property and kept shooting.  He didn’t seem too happy about that and hung around until I finished recording the footage I needed.

His behavior made me realize how much traditional restaurants are threatened by food trucks.  Times are changing and food trucks are the catalyst:  Brick and mortar versus social media, social conservatism versus youth rebellion, socioeconomic separation versus cultural fusion.  It seemed similar to other events that challenged our nation’s status quo and shaped our collective consciousness:  The Disco Era in the 1970s, the Cuban migration to Miami in 1980s, and the birth of the Hip Hop culture.  I wanted to capture the moment, so I launched my own independent production company to cover the story.

This is her first independent documentary film.