佩德罗·科塔：从学生制片人到NASA视频制作人
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Pedro Cota is a video producer for NASA en español (NASA’s Spanish communications program), working for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate. Cota, who joined NASA in August 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and working remotely, produces video content in Spanish that focuses on the scientific missions and programs across the agency and highlights Hispanic employees and their contributions to NASA. He also creates and curates multimedia content for social media platforms. He co-created and directed the first broadcast in Spanish of a planetary landing: a show named Juntos Perseveramos (Together we Persevere), for the Mars 2020 Perseverance landing on February 18, 2021. During the 2021 Hispanic Heritage Month, Pedro is producing a new season of the series Hispan@s de la NASA.
佩德罗·科塔（Pedro Cota）是NASA en español（NASA的西班牙语通讯项目）的视频制作人，为该机构的科学任务理事会工作。科塔于2020年8月在COVID-19大流行期间加入NASA，并进行远程工作。他用西班牙语制作视频内容，重点介绍整个机构的科学任务和项目，并强调西班牙裔员工和他们对NASA的贡献。他还为社交媒体平台创作和策划多媒体内容。他参与制作并指导了第一个用西班牙语播出的行星着陆节目：一个名为Juntos Perseveramos（我们一起坚持）的节目，为2021年2月18日的火星2020年毅力号着陆做准备。在2021年西班牙裔传统月期间，佩德罗正在制作新一季的系列剧《Hispan@s de la NASA》。
“It’s a privilege for me to be able to share the latest from NASA with people all over the world who speak Spanish, my native language,” said Cota who was born in San Diego and grew up across the border in Tijuana, México. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in film at University of California, Berkeley in 2010 and earned his master’s in journalism with an emphasis in documentary filmmaking from the UC Berkeley School of Journalism. Before NASA, Cota worked as an associate producer for a PBS Frontline documentary and was a finalist for the 2020 Student Academy Awards for a short documentary he co-produced.
“我很荣幸能和全世界说我母语西班牙语的人分享美国宇航局的最新进展。”科塔说，他出生在圣地亚哥，在墨西哥蒂华纳的边境线上长大。他于2010年在加州大学伯克利分校获得电影学士学位，并在加州大学伯克利分校新闻学院获得新闻学硕士学位，重点研究纪录片制作。在加入NASA之前，科塔曾担任PBS前线纪录片的副制片人，并以他共同制作的一部短篇纪录片入围2020年学生学院奖(Student Academy Awards)的决赛。
In this image taken on January 2021, Cota is in the Mars Yard at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, standing in front of the Optimism rover (Perseverance’s twin on Earth) during a video shoot with Diana Trujillo.
在2021年1月拍摄的这张照片中，科塔在加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳的NASA喷气推进实验室的火星院子里，与戴安娜·特鲁希略（Diana Trujillo）一起拍摄视频，站在乐观号火星车（毅力号在地球上的双胞胎）前。
Image Courtesy of Pedro Cota
图片来源：佩德罗·科塔