Miami-Dade · Broward · Palm Beach
Miami-Dade · Broward · Palm Beach
A video series with the people building South Florida's local economy — two panas at a time, talking to each other rather than into a microphone.
National coverage of South Florida is beaches, money and nightlife. The people who actually hold the place together are the extras in it.
Local press covers the opening and the closing. The years in between — which are the actual work — go unrecorded.
A feature runs, traffic spikes for a day, and it is gone. Nothing is left that somebody could still find in five years.
Three decisions about how it gets recorded, and not one of them is the decision a news segment would make.
Each episode pairs two local makers and lets them talk to each other — a tattoo artist with a musician, a ceramicist with a farmer. The interview is between them. We just roll.
No four-minute segment, no soundbite. The conversation runs until it is finished, because the setbacks are the part that takes a while to say out loud.
Every episode is published and left there — watchable, searchable and linkable long after the week it went out.
Episodes with the people behind Easy Peasy Tattoos, Earth Pallas, Folktale San Pedro, Dear Eleanor and Golden Flora — places you could visit this week.
Everything stays findable long after the week it aired, because the point of it is the record rather than the release.
Panas get pitched, featured and interviewed. If you are doing the work here, it belongs in the archive in your own words.
Who gets recorded is who gets remembered. PanaVizión exists so that the people holding South Florida together are in the archive, not just in the traffic.