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Portraits & interviews

Meet with Hsuan-Yu Pan, a NY-based woman documentary filmmaker originally from Taiwan

Interview conducted and written by Jahaida Hernandez Jesurum   On a cold April morning in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, I meet with Hsuan-Yu Pan. She opens the door with a warm, charismatic smile that seems to be a permanent feature of her face. We take the elevator to the apartment of one of her friends in the basement where, she explains, she is working on a film segment for BRIC, a Brooklyn-based art and media nonprofit. We are welcomed into the...

Portraits & interviews

“Baking up” your success: the story of Ms. Mzia, a Georgian immigrant entrepreneur in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn

Written by Khatia Mikadze   “New York City is a place where you can find your own formula of success,” says Ms. Mzia, while serving her pastries to waiting customers standing in line. The owner of a tiny traditional Georgian bakery located on a street corner of Little Odessa, in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach neighborhood, she attracts locals from different ethnic groups with her exceptional cooking and baking skills. The bakery serves Georgian food such as “Khachapuri” (cheesy bread), “Shoti” (oven-baked...