Patricia Garcia-Rios

Multimedia for Higher Ed

Since joining the Harvard Kennedy School in 2008, Garcia-Rios has been developing increasingly sophisticated video and multimedia curriculum materials for use as case studies.

Documentaries

As a producer and director, Patricia Garcia-Rios has created a rich and dynamic visual vocabulary for both elaborate historical documentaries and vérité films.

Script Doctor

As a script doctor and story consultant, Garcia-Rios has lent her skills to a variety of documentaries, building on each filmmaker’s distinctive voice and vision to rewrite and restructure their films at different stages — from assembly to fine cut.

Patricia Garcia-Rios interviews Léyner Palacios, a victim of violence in Colombia.

About

Patricia Garcia-Rios is a bilingual and bicultural video producer of documentaries for educational use and public television with 25+ years of experience.

In her films and multimedia case studies, she has covered a wide range of issues—from the impact of inequality on the health of Latinx immigrants to the achievements of African Americans during the Reconstruction period; from controversial school reform in Washington D.C. to the challenges of negotiating a peace agreement in Colombia.

As a writer/director and story consultant, she focuses on bringing nuance and depth to the viewers’ understanding of our increasingly complex world and the history that explains it.