Norman S Zafra Author

Norman S. Zafra currently teaches media production and communication at De La Salle University in Manila, the Philippines. As a practitioner of documentary and transmedia storytelling transitioning into academia, his research often examines the practice of doing and making media in this age of audience fragmentation and media convergence. He began his career producing, writing, and directing some of the documentary and investigative public affairs programmes of GMA Network. His recent documentary, the subject of this volume, won the International Labour Organization’s Global Media Competition on Labour Migration. The same project also received a Migration Advocacy and Media Award from the Commission on Filipinos Overseas. Some of the journals that published his work include Studies in Documentary Film, Media Practice and Education, Visual Communication, and Pacific Journalism Review among others.