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Gina Nemirofsky

Gina Nemirofsky is a field producer for the documentary 10×10. She has worked as a freelance field and story producer on programs for MTV, CNN, Current TV, and Discovery Health. She recently shifted from television to feature documentary production, helping to produce a global crowd-sourced documentary, One Day on Earth.

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The approach to La Rinconada, a gold-mining town nestled under a glacier in the Peruvian Andes.

Dreaming of El Dorado

Fall 2012 | Reporting

Senna has pounded rock; she has ground it to gravel with her feet, she has teetered under heavy bags of crushed stone. But she was never lucky as a child miner; she never found even the faintest glimmer of gold. Today, with her father dead and her mother bordering on desperation, she makes fancy gelatins and sells them to men as they come and go from the mine shafts that pock the unforgiving face of Mount Ananea. When she is asked why she slogs through mud and snow for a few hours of school every day, as few children do, she says she wants to be a poet. She is fourteen years old.