Andrés Cediel

Andrés Cediel is an Emmy-award winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and educator.

Cediel has been a frequent contributor the PBS program FRONTLINE, including serving as a writer, director and producer of “Covid’s Hidden Toll” (2020), “Trafficked in America” (2018), and “Kids Caught in the Crackdown” (2019), which was produced in collaboration with the Associated Press. 

For FRONTLINE, he investigated the rampant sexual assault of immigrant women at work as the producer of “Rape in the Fields” (2013) and was a writer and producer of “Rape on the Night Shift” (2015). The two films were produced at the Investigative Reporting Program in collaboration with Univisión, CIR and KQED, sparking legislative reform in California. 

He was a producer on VOCES: Latino Vote 2024, and is developing a film with the Jingle Dress Project, which raises awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

Cediel has received an Emmy, two duPont-Columbia Journalism awards, the RFK Grand Prize for Journalism, twice been a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize in Investigative Reporting, and nominated for a Peabody, among other awards.

Cediel was a Professor in Residence at Berkeley Journalism, received a BA from Brown University, and his Master’s degree in Journalism from UC Berkeley.