Mateo Cruz Monteiro
Mateo moved from New Bedford for college in New York. He and Gia met in Children, Youth, and Digital Culture. Now he lives upstairs from the neighborhood bookshop and borrows its community room for their media nights. He shoots the clips; he also has to learn when to put the camera down.
A little context
22 years old. Puerto Rican and Cape Verdean. He and they.
College student, lives above the bookshop
What they are figuring out
A strong edit can leave out the part that changes the story.
Start a conversation
Ask Mateo what happened before he started recording.