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yo se que es pandemia
interactive site, video, audio
Year: 2021

director: frisly soberanis
producer: kenia guillen
editor: génesis mancheren abaj
production and site: Waterwell, DocumentedNYA year after the Pandemic began, anonymous immigrant New Yorkers share their thoughts on the city's first year of the Covid 19 pandemic. This project was created in early 2021, building off interviews that Documented reporters conducted with subscribers who submitted stories to their spanish-language newsletter on WhatsApp, Semanal








WhatsApp Messages

In March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted every aspect of life in New York City, many immigrant New Yorkers became jobless and were without guidance. Thousands of them found Documented’s WhatsApp group and began sending us urgent messages.

After almost a year of correspondence via this WhatsApp group, a picture began to form of some of the ways the pandemic has impacted and altered the lives of many immigrant New Yorkers so far. Their responses were vivid and multi-faceted. We wanted to spend more time with these stories.



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Documentary Film

Documented collaborated with Waterwell - a production company that tells engrossing, complex civic stories - to produce a short documentary, created and directed by Frisly Soberanis, a filmmaker from Queens via Guatemala.

The documentary and the site that followed, used the messages as a data inputs for the shape of the film and storyline.