Almudena Toral

Visual journalist
   
Location: Miami, FL
Nationality: Spanish
Biography: Almudena Toral is a Spanish visual journalist and filmmaker currently based in Miami. She heads the feature visuals team at Univision News Digital – the team covers the U.S. and Latin America through documentaries, photo essays, visuals for... MORE
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Copyright Almudena Toral 2024
Updated Jul 2020
Topics Documentary, Editorial, Film, Film Stills, Immigration, Migration
Winner of a 2019 Edward R. Murrow Award, the 2019 Gabo Prize (image category) and NPPA Best of Photojournalism. Pictures of the Year International Award of Excellence, Documentary Journalism. Livingston Awards finalist. Visit the whole project.

It’s been a decade since Postville, a small town in Iowa, was home to one of the largest immigration raids at a worksite in U.S. history: 389 immigrants were arrested in the biggest kosher meatpacking plant in the country. As Donald Trump revives George W. Bush’s immigration enforcement policies, Postville's experience sheds light on the impact, efficiency and repercussions of massive worksite raids.

Co-published by Univision and The Intercept, supported by a Knight Foundation grant. Featured in NPR Here and Now, PRI, Radio Ambulante, In the thick podcast, broadcast on PBS, Screened at Sedona International Film Festival, Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Central American International Film Festival, NYC Independent Film Festival, Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival, Indie Grits Festival, LA Short Awards, Iowa Motion Pictures Association Awards, Los Angeles Feedback Female Film Festival, Los Angeles CineFest, Miami Independent Film Festival, Oneota Film Festival and Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards.


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