When Brooklyn-based advertising creatives Doug Cameron and Tommy Noonan discovered that their local convenience store was facing closure, they began a campaign to help save it. This video examines the fate of a small businesses when gentrification grips cities like New York. RESEARCHED, FILMED & EDITED BY TOM PIETRASIK FOR THE GUARDIAN. Read more about this video here.
SENIOR TV PRODUCER APPLICATION, DEMOCRACY NOW!
THE FIGHT FOR $15
Low wages are a reality for Edith Figueroa and Sabrina Johnson. These two fast food workers from Boston are fighting for a $15 minimum wage. RESEARCHED, FILMED & EDITED BY TOM PIETRASIK FOR THE GUARDIAN. Read more about this video here.
EXAMINING PAKISTAN’S ELECTION
Click above to view my interview with reporter Declan Walsh. FILMED & EDITED BY TOM PIETRASIK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES.
TEA-PARTY ENVIRONMENTALIST
I first came across Debbie Dooley Debbie Dooley, co-founder of the Tea Party in this New Yorker story by Bill McKibben. Dooley argues that promoting solar energy is entirely consistent with conservatism and Florida’s power monopolies are determined to silence her. RESEARCHED, FILMED & EDITED BY TOM PIETRASIK FOR THE GUARDIAN. Read about making this video here.
ONE WTC
The Guardian’s Ed Pilkington offers his perspective on the 2015 opening of One World Trade Center in New York City. FILMED & EDITED BY TOM PIETRASIK FOR THE GUARDIAN.
BROOKLYN BODEGA
When Brooklyn-based advertising creatives Doug Cameron and Tommy Noonan discovered that their local convenience store was facing closure, they began a campaign to help save it. This video examines the fate of a small businesses when gentrification grips cities like New York. RESEARCHED, FILMED & EDITED BY TOM PIETRASIK FOR THE GUARDIAN. Read more about this video here.