NEW YORK—Definitely a curious person, Bianca Giaever likes talking with strangers and telling their stories. She can expose a richness of insight even focusing on the most mundane topics. Whether in writing, radio, or video, her stories span a wide range of emotions, swinging in mood from light and playful to downright sad and tragic, to even transcendent.
“I feel like everyone is walking around with all their life experience and every epiphany they have ever had, and I’m trying to get them to open up and talk about it basically,” she said in the kitchen area of m ss ng p eces, a production company she works with in Brooklyn.
You may have come across Giaever’s work in The New York Times, on NPR shows such as “This American Life“ and ”Radiolab,” or via websites like Buzzfeed, The Huffington Post, and The Atlantic, to name a few.
A couple of years ago she produced a video, “The Scared is Scared” based on a 6-year-old’s idea of his dream movie. Beautifully simple in how she executed it, the video is 100 percent faithful to Asa Baker-Rouse narrating a story about a bear, a mouse, a swimming pool, a piano shaped cookie, and friendship, and it also gives some wise advise on how to deal with loss and anxiety. The adorably sweet and uplifting video went viral on the Internet garnering about 1 million views.
“The Scared is Scared“ by Bianca Giaever on Vimeo.
Giaever (pronounced Gay-ver) was inspired to do that video, and its precursor, “Holy Cow Lisa“ to cheer herself up.
“I wanted to make something happy because I was coming off of a really depressing breakup and I just wanted to feel better again,” she said.
Shortly after, she moved on to helping others.
