By Shirley Farmer 
Series “On the way to traffic” Portuguese journalist Mariana van Zeller won five Emmy Awards for journalism last Wednesday. The National Geographic documentary series was nominated in more than twenty categories.
For the episode Cyber hackers, The series won an award Excellence in Coverage Excellence and Technology Awardby Terrorist oil This is from Excellence in video journalism And for forBlack market kids the Excellence in coverage of business, consumption and economics.
On the technical side, two episodes from the third season were also given: Ghost weapons cOr Excellence in Editorial Award MDMA drug towards the light.
The series already has four seasons
In each episode, the docuseries explores a different black market. On the table are issues such as drugs, weapons, terrorism, fraud, illegal races and fights.And trafficking in exotic animals or even organs.
In an interview with SIC Notícias, in July of this year, Mariana van Zeller revealed that she is already recording the fifth season.
In Portugal, the series is broadcast by the National Geographic Channel and can also be watched on Disney+.
Who is Mariana van Zeller?
Born in Cascais in 1976, she is currently known as one of the most popular investigative journalists. Her interest in journalism sparked when she was still young, and years later she made it her dream career.
In 2000, he interned at SIC for six months and then, with the launch of SIC Notícias, he started working at the channel. There he made his first international business trips.
At the age of 25, he moved to New York to pursue a master's degree and it was at this time that he discovered documentary films. He completed one of these as his final course project, which earned him a scholarship that allowed him to travel and work in England.
He stayed there for a few months, but in March 2003, after the invasion of Iraq, he moved to Syria, where he began an Arabic language course.. Since then many works have been carried out.
The partnership with National Geographic began in 2011, and nine years later, due to its strong desire to report on black markets, the documentary series “Na Rota do Tráfico” was born.