Andrés Cediel

Alumni

Andrés Cediel is an Emmy-award winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and educator.

Cediel has been a frequent contributor the PBS program FRONTLINE, including serving as a writer, director and producer of “Covid’s Hidden Toll” (2020), “Trafficked in America” (2018), and the Emmy-award winning piece “Kids Caught in the Crackdown” (2019), which was produced in collaboration with the Associated Press. 

For FRONTLINE, he investigated the rampant sexual assault of immigrant women at work as the producer of “Rape in the Fields” (2013) and was a writer and producer of “Rape on the Night Shift” (2015). The two films – which aired in both English and Spanish on two separate networks – were produced at the Investigative Reporting Program in collaboration with Univisión, the Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED, sparking legislative reform in California. 

Cediel also produced “The Real CSI” (2012), an examination of the flaws in forensic science in collaboration with ProPublica, and was a co-producer on the POV film “The Judge and the General” (2008), which documented human rights cases against the former Chilean dictator. 

This past election, he was a producer on VOCES: Latino Vote 2024, a PBS film produced in collaboration with PBS, PBS SoCal, ITVS and Latino Public Broadcasting. He is currently developing a film with the Jingle Dress Project, which promotes art as healing while raising awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

Cediel has been honored with an Emmy, two duPont-Columbia Journalism awards, the RFK Grand Prize for Journalism, twice been a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize in Investigative Reporting, and has been nominated for a Peabody and multiple Emmys, among other awards.

As Professor-in-Residence at Berkeley Journalism, Cediel taught introductory, intermediate, and advanced video production while serving as the faculty lead for the Shortform video track. His students’ work was screened and published by the New York Times, SFFilm, KQED, The Intercept, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and shortlisted for the Student Academy Awards. He also developed and taught the course “Undocumented America” on how to report on immigration in collaboration with the Ethnic Studies Department. He served as the Chair of the Admissions committee, and Associate Dean.

Cediel received a BA in Anthropology from Brown University, and his Master’s degree in Journalism from UC Berkeley.

REPORTING INTERESTS

Immigration, International, Investigative

MEDIA PLATFORMS

Video Journalism