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Much of the Sonoran desert between Tucson and Mexico is a haunting wasteland of discarded shoes, shirts, and empty plastic water jugs, discarded by desparate illegal immigrants who risk their lives as they cross the desert from Mexico into the United States in search of better-paying jobs.
And I Walked...Stories From the Border was commissioned for the 2003 ShortDocs: Stories About Thirst.
Producer
Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler are public radio producers and media artists based in Brooklyn and Boston. Their stories and long-form documentaries have aired nationally and internationally on public radio shows including: This American Life, Morning Edition, BBC, Radio Lab, Re:sound, and numerous others. Individually and collectively, their radio stories and media projects have won Peabody, RTNDA Edward R. Murrow, NFCB Golden Reel, PRNDI, Associated Press and Third Coast International Audio Festival (TCIAF) awards, and been exhibited at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), UnionDocs and Conflux, among other venues. They have held guest lectures at TCIAF, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, the South Asian Journalists Association Convention at Columbia University and Universität Konstanz.
For the past three years, they were series producers for American Public Media's Weekend America. Currently, Ann and Kara produce, and sometimes host, the new NPR show Hearing Voices.
Extra
And I Walked...Stories From the Border was presented by Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler in the opening session of the 2003 Third Coast Conference - Variations on a Thirst: Introducing the 2003 Third Coast Festival ShortDocs.
Read about and listen to all of the 2003 ShortDocs: Stories About Thirst.
Hear more audio work from Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler.