TIME Video Short Docs

If She Wins: Meet the Women Who Flipped the House (Nov, 2018)

Ahead of the 2018 elections, we embarked on a 10-day road trip to cover the historic wave of women congressional candidates, overwhelmingly Democrats, running for office for the first time. We drove nearly 1,000 miles — from Overland Park, Kansas to Birmingham, Michigan — meeting women who had transformed from citizen to candidate over the past two years. We visited Sharice Davids, Cindy Axne, Abby Finkenauer, Lauren Underwood and Haley Stevens, all first-time women candidates working to flip Republican-held districts. We figured one or two of them might pull it off: on election night, they all won. (Video by Diane Tsai)

Dream High: A Day in the Life of a DACA High School Student (February, 2018)

She calms herself down by forcing a smile and counting her blessings. Her family may not have a car, or a computer, or a way to pay for her to go to college. But they are together, she reminds herself, and they are in America. She has her teachers and her church in her corner. She twists her purity ring around her finger and tells herself that God is with her. “If I’d stayed [in Mexico], I’d be working in the fields right now. Even if I don’t have the benefits of my peers, I truly am blessed. I have things I never would have had,” she says. “Like a bed.” 

The Truth About Egg Freezing (2015)

At every step of the process, a few eggs are lost. Of all the eggs extracted, only some are healthy enough to be frozen. (Five of Rokhlin’s eggs were not deemed viable.) Of all the eggs that are frozen, only 75% to 80% make it through the thaw. Of all the eggs that are thawed, only a portion make it to the blastocyst phase, and only a portion of those are deemed genetically healthy enough to transfer to the womb. And of the healthy embryos transferred, only some will survive to a live birth, especially if the mother is older. The ASRM estimates that even in women under 38, each egg has just a 2% to 12% chance of resulting in a live birth.

(Video by Diane Tsai and Francesca Trianni, winner of the 2015 Front Page Award for Digital Video)

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