Meet Mimi, a teen paramedic in El Salvador | Pop-Up Magazine

Filmmaker Juliana Schatz Preston shares the story of Mimi, a teenage volunteer paramedic in El Salvador. After Mimi loses a friend to gang violence, she’s forced to consider the dangers of life in her hometown against the unknowns of immigrating to the United States.

“Mimi y Los Comandos” was first performed live on the POP-UP MAGAZINE stage and is presented as part of Hispanic Heritage Month, with support from Google.

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JULIANA SCHATZ PRESTON is a Colombian American documentary filmmaker. Her film LOS COMANDOS was shortlisted for a 2019 Academy Award. She contributed to 12 documentaries at FRONTLINE — including two Emmy Award winners and one Peabody Award winner. Her coverage of the Egyptian revolution with The GroundTruth Project (https://thegroundtruthproject.org/) was nominated for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists.

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