Counted: An Oakland Story
During 2017, a team of Snap Judgment producers followed every homicide in Oakland, CA for the entire year.
Best Documentary: Gold2018 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition2018 / Adizah Eghan / Anna Sussman / Shaina Shealy / Jonathan Jones / Snap Judgment, USA
During 2017, a team of Snap Judgment producers followed every homicide in Oakland, CA for the entire year.
Counted: An Oakland Story offers an intimate introduction to those lost to Oakland’s violence, and tells the story of the city and the people they left behind.
Produced by Adizah Eghan, Anna Sussman, Shaina Shealy, Jonathan Jones, with co-producers Pat Mesiti-Miller, Nancy Lopez, Jazmin Aguilera, Eliza Smith, and Pendarvis Harshaw, editors Anna Sussman and Mark Ristich, original score and sound design by Pat Mesiti-Miller, Leon Morimoto and Renzo Gorrio, for Snap Judgment . Executive produced by Glynn Washington.
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Adizah Eghan is a senior producer at VICE Audio where she edits and produces episodes for VICE News Reports.
Anna Sussman is the Senior Producer and Managing Editor of Snap Judgment.
Shaina Shealy is a multimedia journalist and producer at Snap Judgment based in Oakland, CA, where she's pursuing her dream of making stories that can connect people, sometimes across divides that are difficult to overcome.
Jonathan Jones is an investigative reporter and producer. Much of his work has focused on human rights.
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