BOOKER TRAVELS is an original web video series about global traveling through the eyes of a teenager – that explores local culture, sports, music and food. With our own WEBSITEand YouTube Channel, the purpose of our videos is to inspire teens and their families to travel, to #livelifeoutside.

Launched in April of 2012, our independently produced series has already taken viewers on trips to the Brazilian Amazon, Barcelona, Nicaragua, Long Island, San Francisco, Sri Lanka, North Carolina, Morocco, Barbados and Puerto Rico.

Among various international press and awards, Booker – our teen host – was named “Traveler Of The Year” by National Geographic in 2012. He received a full-page spread on National Geographic Traveler Magazine, and since early 2013 he’s been writing for National Geographic’s Intelligent Travel blog which receives over 400,000 views per month.

Most recently, BOOKER TRAVELS was selected as a “Top Video Travel Blog” by FlipKey of Trip Advisory, The Culture-ist, and the Autographer. In 2014, two of our videos were nominated for The World Responsible Tourism Award.

“When you go and see the world up close with your own eyes, it stays in you forever.”

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Video 7 mins, Brazil/USA 1990. Available in English and Portuguese

Ex-voto is the task or object that results from the promise made by the devotee.  The devotee requests the divine intervention, and promises to carry out a duty if the grace is granted.  In Latin America, ex-votos have always been expressed in works or mediums of art, such as paintings, sculptures or photographs, which consequently are delivered to shrines.

Ex-voto, the video, is an offering to Our Lady Aparecida – the National Patron Saint of Brazil, in gratitude for saving the artist from an accident with fire when she was 10 years old. It explores the medium as an object of offering by using the same expression of a dialogue with the divine. As a devotee, the artist had to execute all the production levels of the video as a craft.

Selected screenings: American Film Institute National Video Festival, Artists Space (NY), European Media Arts Festival (Germany), VIII Festival de Cine Latino Americano (Trieste/Venice/Rome), Festival de Cinema de Gramado (Brazil), Festival Internacional de Video Del Cono Sur (program touring to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguai, Paraguai, and Chile), Impact Festival of Experimental Art in Utrecht (Netherlands), The Kitchen (NY), PS 122 (NY), Magdeburg Int’l. Film/Video Festival (Germany), The Majestic Theater/BAM (NY), Aaron Davis Hall (NY), Movimiento Nacional Video: VII Encuentro Nacional de Video (Cuba),

Museum of Image and Sound in Brazil, Museum of Modern Art in New York, International House (PA), Public Theater (NY), Queens Museum of Art, Robert Flaherty Seminar, San Francisco Cinemateque, Women in the Director’s Chair, WOW Women on World Film and Video Festival

Broadcast: NO TV