At Goldstein High School in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, a student named Rahmel creates the school’s first Black Student Union alongside Mr. Blackmon, one of few black teachers at Goldstein. They speak to the importance of teacher diversity, and having a safe cultural space for students to engage in important discourse. As a result, the two have paved a path for others at the school (Latinos, women, LGBTQ) to create spaces of their own.

Seeing Myself won an Ippies 2017 Award for Best Video - 1st Place and a Telly Award Bronze under"#Bheard " - Category: Series Documentary.

Cinematography, Editing, Direction: Raquel Salazar
Camera: Daniel Cangelosi

In the wake of a number of killings of unarmed black men, organizations galvanized around policing reform efforts have proposed the Right to Know Act. If enacted as legislation, the bill would protect New Yorkers from unconstitutional stops by law enforcement. Despite an ongoing national conversation around police reform, the bill has been accepted as a mere agreement, which poses issues of its own.

Cinematography, Editing, Direction: Raquel Salazar

Senior Correspondent: Brian Vines
Camera: Daniel Cangelosi

In this short documentary, we learn how one father and his daughter maintained a relationship during his sixteen years of incarceration at Sing Sing Correctional Facility.

Long Distance Wait won a Telly Award Bronze under"#Bheard " - Category: Series Documentary.

Cinematography, Editing, Direction: Raquel Salazar
Produced: Raquel Salazar & Sriyanka Ray

At the Brownsville Community Justice Center a program called Sounds of Brownsville uses music to reduce crime and the use of juvenile incarceration in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

In partnership with The Marshall Project.

Sounds of Brownsville was nominated for a 2017 NY Emmy in the Societal Concerns Category.

Cinematography, Editing, Direction: Raquel Salazar
Produced: Sriyanka Ray & Raquel Salazar

What is it like to come to America as a woman with few work skills, and in many cases, little or no education? We went to East New York to see how one ELL class is empowering Bangladeshi women who face isolation, culture shock and for some embarrassment.

Cinematography, Editing, Direction: Raquel Salazar
Produced: Sriyanka Ray

YO S.O.S. is Crown Heights Mediation Center's youth anti-violence leadership program for high school students. We asked four youth leaders to give their take on policing in schools, the criminal justice system and racism.

Cinematography, Editing, Direction: Raquel Salazar
Produced: Raquel Salazar & Sriyanka Ray

Raquel is the director of photography and editor of Straight Up Season 1 and 2.

Straight Up: Journalists Covering Race was nominated for a 2016 NY Emmy in the Discussion/Interview Category.

Straight Up is BRIC TV's spin on the traditional studio-based round table where reporters discuss national/international current affairs and journalistic methods in today's media landscape. Journalists from The Marshall Project, The Nation and The Intercept have been featured on the show.

As the conflict between Ukraine and Russia continues to become more tense, we spoke to three teenagers - two from Ukraine and one from Russia to see what their take is on the war in their homeland and how it affects them and their friendship with each other here in Brooklyn.

The War Back Home won an Ippies 2015 Award for Best Video - 3rd Place.

Cinematography, Editing, Direction: Raquel Salazar
Produced:  Raquel Salazar & Sriyanka Ray

How does growing up in a world with severely limited choices affect the choices you do make in life? We follow LeDrell Johnson, a violence interrupter at G.M.A.C.C, as he reminisces about his childhood in the Cooper Projects where he grew up in poverty and in violence.

Cinematography, Editing, Direction: Raquel Salazar
Produced: Raquel Salazar & Sriyanka Ray

We hung out with five teens from Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets (YO SOS) to talk about urban youth life-being stereotyped, teen violence and what it's like to grow up in Brooklyn.

Cinematography, Editing, Direction: Raquel Salazar
Produced: Raquel Salazar & Sriyanka Ray

East meets West in this dance battle between a traditional Kathak dancer and a ballet dancer on the streets of Crown Heights.

Cinematography, Editing, Direction: Raquel Salazar
Produced: Sriyanka Ray