All of us at the New York Film Academy are so proud of what Brazilian Broadcast Journalism alumna Paula Varejao has accomplished. Last week she won a prestigious Rio WebFest award. Paula is a multimedia journalist in the fullest sense of that term, and we are glad that she took the skills she learned in the Broadcast Journalism program and turned them into a new career. Bravo, Paula!
Her online travel series, 7 Dias no Atacama (7 Days in Atacama) is nothing short of amazing.
While Paula has extensive experience as a TV journalist, this was her first totally MMJ project. I am deeply touched by the kind words she had for us. “Thanks a lot, Bill Einreinhofer! I’m so grateful to you! All the knowledge I acquired from NYFA was very important to finding new paths and opportunities in my career! Thanks a lot for everything.”
Creating this series was anything but easy.
Here is a (translated) excerpt from Paula’s Facebook posting about the award: “Maybe some people more experienced here in my timeline might think that I’m overreacting, but to me it means so much! They say that the crisis is to get us out of the comfort zone and I think it was more or less what happened to me. After working years on TV, I had to create my own opportunities. I started again, sought new ways, took a chance on something different, I performed various functions at the same time: I created, planned, wrote, produced, filmed, edited, I tabled and look there… it was worth it!”