Years active 1996–present Name John Frey | Role Filmmaker | |
Full Name Juan Carlos Frey Movies and TV shows The Gatekeeper, The 800 Mile Wall, Muriendo por Cruzar Awards News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine Nominations News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine Similar People Anne Betancourt, Joel Brooks, Solly Granatstein, Neal Shapiro, Carmen Dominicci | ||
Education University of San Diego | ||
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John Carlos Frey (born November 3, 1969, in Tijuana, Mexico), is a Mexican-American freelance investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. His investigative work has been featured on programs and networks such as 60 Minutes, PBS, NBC News, CBS News, the Weather Channel, Dan Rather Reports, Fusion TV, Current TV, Univision, and Telemundo. John Carlos Frey has also written articles for the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, Salon, Need to Know online, the Washington Monthly, and El Diario (in Spanish).
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- Personal
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- Documentaries
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Frey is currently a Reporting Fellow at the Investigative Fund and a special correspondent for the NewsHour on PBS.
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Personal
Frey was born in Tijuana, Mexico. His father was Swiss-American and his mother was a naturalized US citizen of Mexican descent. His family moved to San Diego, California, where he attended parochial schools, and later studied film and graduated from the University of San Diego. Early in his life, Frey sought to hide his Mexican heritage. "I wanted to pass as American, I didn’t want to accept that I was part Mexican," Frey said. "It was really easy to leave my culture behind." Frey's mother was once picked up by US Border Patrol agents and deported because she was unable to convince them of her legal status.
Career
Before becoming a documentary filmmaker and journalist, Frey was a Hollywood actor for ten years. His acting career includes roles in The Practice, Days of Our Lives, Married... with Children, JAG, Weird Science, Party of Five, and Freaky Friday, among others.
Documentaries
Frey's independently produced documentaries include Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon, The Invisible Chapel, The 800 Mile Wall, One Border One Body, and Life and Death on the Border.
Frey was the main correspondent for the February 15, 2013, episode of PBS's "Need To Know" titled "Outlawed In Arizona", highlighting a years-long dispute over a Mexican-American studies program in Tucson, Arizona.