Afghanistan's Blue Mosque:  A Shrine of Renowned Beauty

SAFFRON STORYHUNTER

Commissioning Editor for The Trade & Development Bank's 35th Anniversary Teaser video to be premiered at the annual BOG (Board of Governors) meetings in Livingstone, Zambia.

Trade and Development Bank 35th Anniversary Video

"Twala Nze" by Kohen JayCee -Music Video Director 

Underknown-project

Migrants who arrived in Catalonia coming from Sub-saharan African countries -mostly from Senegal- and that normally work in the street selling products to tourists are working hard these days to manufacture masks, caps and gowns for hospitals. The collective has also set up a food collection campaign. 

'Manteros' (street vendors) against coronavirus

Nearly half of Europe's coronavirus deaths happened in care homes. Facing the dire needs of the elderly, the Spanish NGO Open Arms is sending volunteers to the frontline to test and care for the most vulnerable.

Open Arms: from the Mediterranean sea to coronavirus outbreak helping the most vulnerable

You could easily spend days, weeks even, exploring the sprawling Ishak Pasha Palace. The Pasha family spent over a century building this spectacular structure, beginning in 1685. A unique combination of Armenian, Georgian and Ottoman architecture, the fortress in Doğubayazıt, Turkey, was abandoned when the Ottoman Empire fell. But it quietly stands guard over the remote hills of eastern Turkey to this day.


Standing proud atop a Turkish bluff, this abandoned Ottoman palace looks like a real-life Temple of Doom. 

Could rewilding be a natural solution to urban stress? Video with George Monbiot - BBC REEL

The rewilding movement

Entrepreneur Paid Off $100,000 In Debt Her First Year In Business

One of the best things a person can do when they can't find something they're looking for is to go out and make it themselves. This is precisely the story behind Smithey Ironware Company, the business founded by Isaac Morton over a decade ago. Around the time he fell in love with the practicality and beauty of cast iron skillets, he also realized that ones he felt were up to par were few and far between. As someone who believed in the ability of cast iron to be loved and passed down over the years, he wanted to make something that could live up to the quality of days past. Today, Smithey Ironware produces their cast iron skillets in North Charleston, South Carolina, creating pieces that will be used for many years to come.

How Smithey Ironware Makes Cast Iron Skillets I Beautiful Things I HB

This is the first 360 video about the world's highest Polo ground, in Sakardu, Gilgat Baltistan, Pakistan

Sakardu POLO match in VR 360 Video highlights

We avail the opportunity to cover the process “ How FIFA world Cup 2014,2018, UEFA Champions Leagues Match balls made in Sialkot” and Interview the Mr. Masood Akthar Khawaja, Chairman of the World’s largest Soccer balls manufacturing unit, where almost 1.3 billion balls made every year in a single factory in Pakistan. 

Background:
Nearly 70% of the world's soccer balls are made in the city of Sialkot, Pakistan. Home to nearly 1,000 soccer ball factories, and employing nearly 60,000 people, this city is the epicenter for the world's most popular sport, enjoyed by over 4 billion people.
Here's what it's like inside one of those factories, where balls are largely still made by hand.

How FIFA world Cup 2014,2018, UEFA Champions Leagues Match balls made in Sialkot

Thousands of logging elephants at risk after Myanmar bans timber exports to fight deforestation

The fate of Myanmars Logging Elephants

Real estate video for lakemontluxliving.com

Bellevue, WA - Japan Property

A music documentary about the women at the forefront of India's underground music scene. Made by myself for FACT Mag.

In the film we follow several inspiring women helping carve out the alternative scene in India and speak on what it is like being a woman in music. As well as following British-Indian DJ anu on tour to her motherland for the first time.

The film explore themes of womanhood, race, spirituality, sisterhood, mental health and more. 

Read my interview about the film here: https://www.factmag.com/2021/05/25/desi-on-the-dancefloor-documentary/

DESI ON THE DANCEFLOOR

I directed an episode of Against The Clock for FACT Magazine in Addis Ababa with the creator of the Ethiopian Electronic sound, Ethiopian Records. Produced, directed, filmed and edited by me.

Ethiopian Records

I worked as a sound recordist on this stunning film with director Jade Jackman for Vogue UK for Pride 2020.

Queering The Skin

As we get set for the Tokyo Olympics later this summer, NBCLX storytellers Ngozi Ekeledo and Chase Cain made a pit stop in their home state of Georgia to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, which they both attended as children. Known as the “Centennial Games,” the 1996 Summer Olympics marked the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympics and were the fourth Summer Olympics held in the United States at the time. Their trip inspired us to take a trip down memory lane to share some of our favorite early Olympic memories. 

NBCLX: Videographer/DP for Half-Day Shoot (5/26) in Centennial Olympic Park (ATL)

I started my day at 6 a.m and drove two hours to get to the couple. It was a 10 hour day of filming! I began the day by setting up lights, two cameras for the interview and my computer so the producer and journalist could interview this couple via Zoom. I had so much fun spending time with the couple and learning about their unconventional way of making a living living in a RV van. I was blown away by how much their son knew about investing at a young age of 8! My favorite part about my job is being able to connect and learn from those I interview and film. 

Documentary-style shooter for CNBC Make It's Millennial Money series

Wind River is a software company with a clear vision: An AI-first world that drives deep, transformational, economic, and social change where mission-critical intelligent systems empower and protect organizations and societies. 

Wind River: Building a Machine Economy

A look at the divisive politics in the November 2020 election in Miami FL.

Crossing the Divide : Exploring the Latin vote in Florida

Kilometres of a traffic jam were filmed at Pakistan's Torkham International Border Crossing with Afghanistan, Saturday.
Vehicles, mostly trucks with goods were seen standing still with drivers forced to sleep under them on carpets, as, according to some of them, people had been stranded at the border for almost a month

'Very painful situation' - drivers on almost a month-long traffic at Torkham border with Afghanistan

British amateur cloud scholar Gavin Pretor-Pinney founded the Cloud Appreciation Society, to bring together other people with their heads in the clouds. Now with over 100,000 people, society members post cloud pics and meet up to go cloudspotting - sharing their love of the cloudy skies.



. . . . . .



60 Second Docs - Cloud Appreciation Society

I produced and directed Megan's part of the documentary.

Videographer for international docuseries on gamers

Acclaimed filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi captures a snapshot of The United States of America as the country faces a pandemic, a presidential election and a costly financial collapse.

American Selfie : One Nation Shoots Itself

As banks in Spain continue to evict people who could not deliver on their mortgage payments in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, redfish obtained exclusive access to Enric Duran, the Catalan Robin Hood of the Banks, who took nearly half a million Euros in loans from Spanish banks in 2008, redistributed them to anti-capitalist cooperatives and institutions instead of paying them back, and has been in hiding for almost a decade.

One in five people live under the poverty line in Spain, and 29,406 evictions took place in 2020 while people struggled to make ends meet as COVID took over their lives. Simultaneously, 3.4 million apartments remain empty in Spain, which are often owned by banks and investment funds.

Our team investigated how following the 2008 economic crisis in Spain, banks robbed people to the level that the long-lasting consequences of the crisis have become a permanent reality. An eviction plague is being felt by some of the most disadvantaged communities today.

The documentary also introduces various activists who took it upon themselves to create an alternative to the capitalist system as we know it.

Spain’s Housing Crisis: Banks, Scams And Evictions

How An Elite Sport Plagued by Sex Abuse Turned on Itself

Doc-Style Camera Op needed | 2-camera interview + B-Roll

Despite entering the U.S. legally, some immigrants have no clear path to obtaining citizenship — here’s why

Meet the Documented Dreamers Who May Still Face Deportation

Cam Rackam, 42, is an NFT artist from Huntington Beach, California. Cam graduated with a BFA in drawing and painting from Cal State Fullerton. He had attended and was featured in many art exhibitions over the years for his work in oil painting. But once the pandemic hit in 2020, Cam pivoted to making NFT art. On October 27th, 2021, Cam sold his entire 10,000 NFT collection for 660 ethereum, or $2.6 million. His cut: $738,593.97.

Documentary-style shooter for CNBC Make It's On The Side series

Natalie Minerva is a celebrity nail artist who created all the press-on nail sets for the cast of "Euphoria" season two. She showed Beauty Insider how she created three sets from the show: the pink rhinestone nails worn by Cassie Howard (played by Sydney Sweeney), green gingham nails worn by Maddy Perez (played by Alexa Demie), and zebra nails worn by Kat Hernandez (played by Barbie Ferreira). Minerva used Swarovski crystals, different nail shapes, and custom colors to create the nails.

Seeking Videographer for Beauty Insider Shoot in Los Angeles (Wednesday, Feb. 23rd)

Jamie Wyeth 'Excursion Boats, Monhegan' | New York | November 2021

Photographs | New York | April 2022

Took care of the editing and motion graphics animation for yet another very useful and informative Bloomberg Law / Tax video.

Crypto Taxes - Bloomberg Tax

Deus Vayanne Is an EV Hypercar with a Claimed 2200 HP

Deus Vayanne 

A collection of videos for Noelani Jewellery's  S022 Italy Campaign

Noelani Jewellery Germany  S022 Italy Campaign Film

When the MSF Academy team approached us to work on their next promotional video to improve the visibility of their programmes in the field, we embarked on an exciting adventure. The MSF Academy is a professional training project that aims to improve the skills of national staff in a number of intervention countries.

The result is a warm video that highlights the personal experiences of the Academy's mentors and learners and shows their humanity, professionalism and resilience in often complex working conditions.

MSF Academy

Projects related to development are one of my main focuses. It is therefore quite natural that I started a fruitful collaboration with Imagéo and Check-In Films, two production agencies specialized in this field and in charge of this particular project for the benefit of the African Development Bank.
I was entrusted with the script writing and filming phase.

Agricultural Development in Tanzania

Flexible workspaces are proven to increase employees' comfort, well-being and #productivity. In this film, the #fintech payments company Caxton acknowledges the positive impact that moving to Beyond Aldgate Tower had on their team and their #business.

The benefits of Flexible Working Spaces

A resume of my work as a Producer, Director, DoP, and editor. Over the past 6 years, I've created documentaries and corporate and branded content for private clients as well as charities and the health and public sector.

Reel 2023

Nexford is a next-generation, 100% online university for today’s world, not yesterday’s. We believe in taking a different path to help our learners stand out from the crowd.



Nexford University Promo

In August 1884, Thomas completed the first transcontinental bicycle ride in North America. The journey took 83 days of travelling, with 20 days of stoppage due to wet weather, and covered around 3,700 miles. Reports of his adventure were serialised in an American sporting magazine called Outing.

Cycling pioneer

I put this sizzle reel together against the clock. The goal was to communicate how much Storyhunter has to offer for News Media operations around the world.

News and Journalism Showreel for Storyhunter

Making Wine to Rebuild Oyster Populations

*Shooter only* I'm a Falconer

Saving South Sudan | VICE | United States

AJVideo Productions was started by Adriatik Berdaku, our lead videographer and company owner. Since 1995, Berdaku continues to provide his services in film and photography.

Cinematography is one of his most vital points, thanks to his classical upbringing. Berdaku started as a videographer in his native Albania. He is the son of Ibrahim Berdaku, a famous writer and director in the Albanian country.

Thanks to his father, Berdaku was already ingrained with a mindset for movies. With years of experience under his belt, Berdaku arrived in Italy by the year 2000.

From there, he made several collaborations with national and international television companies. From there, Berdaku opened his own business and promoted himself to head of photography. For the next few years, Berdaku honed his craft in the Centro Sperimentale di Design, a prestigious school for new technologies. By 2005 he attended the Film Workshop, which was put together by the Municipality of Falconara Marittima. Italy gave Berdaku the experience he needed for expert cinematography. In the meantime, he kept his pulse on the fashion world, carefully following New York Fashion Week.

Adriatik B.

I am an English multimedia journalist currently based in Kathmandu.
I've worked for clients including The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Ford Foundation, SPANA, BBC Online, Verbatim, Go Pro, and China Daily.

 I received the HSBC student bursary award to enable me to study full time at Beijing Foreign Students University where I graduated with a Masters in Multimedia Journalism.  Prior to that, I was working full-time as a photographer having graduated from Newport's renowned photography program where I learned the ropes on black and white film.

I am a multimedia storyteller with a passion for social justice, humanity and beauty.




Alice C.

Freccia’s work has been featured in VICE News, The New York Times, Business Week, Al Jazeera, BBC, Global Post, Neue Züricher Zeitung, The Age, The National, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, AP, Stern Online, TIME Magazine and a variety of other print and broadcast outlets. 

Co-founder and Creative Director for three full service communications agencies, Tim has deep experience with a wide variety of commercial clients- from large multinationals to small hotshop startups. 

He has covered conflict and crisis in stills and motion pictures world wide since 1989, and has produced and shot a variety of films for VICE Media over the last years.

Tim F.

My name is Zheng. I was trained as a broadcast journalist at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and graduated with a degree in radio-television journalism. I have worked at an NBC affiliate in Columbia, Missouri as an on-air reporter, videographer and anchor. Currently, I am currently a freelancer in Charleston, South Carolina, specializing in photography and videography, capturing stories through my camera lens. I am also proficient in video and photo editing. 

I love people, stories, and giving their stories life. 

Zheng C.

Masoud Soheili is an Iranian filmmaker, photographer and festival director. He has won more than 40 awards from over 300 film festivals with his movies "Blue-eyed boy" (2014) and "Elephantbird"(2019).
He was a member of 9 film festivals, including the Yogya Netpac Asian Film Festival (2015) , Avanca International Film Festival in Portugal (2016 and 2018), SAARC Film Festival in Sri Lanka (2017), International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala in India (2018), Malatya International Film Festival in Turkey(2018), Dhaka International Youth Film Festival in Bangladesh (2020), Accra Indie Film Festival in Ghana(2022), Chaktomuk Short Film Festival in Cambodia (2022) and Azemeis Film Festival in Portugal(2022). Masoud is the co-founder and creative director of the "Asia Peace Film Festival" in Islamabad, Pakistan, and programmer of the "Changing Perspective Intentional Film Festival" in Istanbul, Turkey. He also worked as a festival director of the Inaugural "Safe Community" International Film Festival in Mashhad, Iran (2017).

Masoud S.

Mia is a freelance film-maker, self-shooter, editor, writer and broadcaster. Specialising in documentaries and cultural films, Mia's areas of expertise are themes of music, culture, education and social justice. Mia is Head of Film of music website www.stampthewax.com. Mia is currently based between Nairobi, and London, where she is creating films, radio programmes and projects around the Middle East, Europe and Africa, ranging from films about music culture, fashion, educational peace organisations, social justice movements and everything in between. Mia is a director, producer, self-shooter, sound recordist, editor and Mia is also a journalist, DJ and radio-broadcaster. 

Mia Z.

Guy is a videographer, photographer, journalist, field producer, writer, and editor based in the Midwest/Hawaii. 

He has worked with the Washington Post, NBC, The History Channel, Now This, Business Insider, U of St Thomas, and AJ+. Recent documentary contributions include Selfie Nation by Alexandra Pelosi, and Yes Men's Peace Pipeline.  

With a special interest in Politics and Business.
-Light kit, Sony or Black Magic camera package, drone, gimbals, and more
-Available for solo shoots and crews.

Guy W.

Passionate. Creative. Hard working. Reliable
I consider myself a storyteller. 
I have always beens art oriented and creative. I've been lucky enough to work in various ways in performing arts (music-dance) and visual arts (illustration, design, video) along my life. 
I do believe my extensive and eclectic background enriches every project I take on. 
Ultimately, I believe I am fascinated by communication, emotions and the quest of beauty. 
I am mainly a director, editor and post producer. I can also develop ideas, scripts, storyboards and put my great team together to shoot whatever is needed! 
Love to catch projects from scratch and work side by side with the customer so I can offer my creative input after understanding exactly what they want and need.
Also love to get somebody else's footage and embellish it. 
Anyways, love my job.

Ms R.

Passionate about global issues such as climate change, access to education and humanitarian intervention, Thomas combines his skills in filmmaking with academic knowledge and journalism training to tell stories that matter in an engaging yet nuanced fashion.

His masters in international development is the breeding ground for his focus on the non-for-profit and public institutional sector. More than an agile filmmaker, his analytical mind is a great tool to convey complex issues onto the screen.

Besides his work as a producer, director and DOP, he continues to work as a documentary photographer and expedition leader in remote places.

Thomas C.

Brian Inocencio was born and raised in Taiwan. He moved to to Vancouver, Canada when he was thirteen on his own. He developed interest in film photography and was heavily involved in outdoor activities such as backcountry snowboarding, skim boarding, surfing, rock climbing, and camping at a very young age. He was part of the first fifteen rugby team and played on the clubs team on the weekends. He’s always documenting his journey through the camera he had at the time. 

Presently, he is an award winning documentary filmmaker and cinematographer who has worked on documentary film projects for BBC, PBS, Discovery, Al Jazeera+, Netflix, POV American Documentary, Peacock, 60 Second Docs, The Economist, CNBC, Business Insider, and Bloomberg Digital. His documentary short, Alex, was awarded best documentary at Long Island International Film Expo, shortlisted for the 2017 BAFTA Student Film Awards, and was part of the official selection for 60 Second Docs. Brian has recently worked as a Director of Photography for PBS Series called Historian’s Take, and a feature length documentary film called The Hidden Wounds, and a food series exploring LA’s Chinese cuisine, Boiling Pot, In early 2020, Brian was a Director of Photography for the Chinese Historical Society of America, We Are Bruce Lee, a documentary short that will be part of the museum's new exhibit. In 2018 he was an additional cinematographer on Andrew Zimmern’s food show and was a digital imaging technician on a documentary project, Becoming, an intimate story with the former first lady Michelle Obama. Brian has also worked as a cinematographer and programmer at POV American Documentary. In late 2017, he was an additional cinematographer for a feature length documentary film, Dykes, Camera, Action!, and a second camera operator for the show Talk Stoop, George to The Rescue, Open House, and 1st Look.

Before embarking on his career as a documentary cinematographer, he worked in the medical field and was a part of an interdisciplinary team in the Brain Injury Unit working as a physical therapy assistant. At the time, he met some of the toughest people battling their injuries, and one in particular was a young man name Alex. He had just graduated college and had his entire life ahead of him, but a mistake of not fastening his seatbelt completely changed his life. They became friends. He had inspired Brian to follow his gut. And that is to become a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. Fast forward two years, he made a short film about him “Alex”, and it jump started his storytelling career. 

Brian holds a MFA in Social Documentary Film from the School of Visual Arts and a Bachelor degree in Biology from Hunter College CUNY in New York City. 

Brian I.

I am a passionate filmmaker with a keen interest in humanity, nature, and cultural trends. I consider myself a creative and highly adaptable professional, and I enjoy using my talent and expertise to create films with real strength and character. 

Over the past 6 years, I’ve been producing, directing, shooting and editing films for many different companies, charities and the health and public sector.
I’ve been working as a filmmaker at Magneto Films for over 4 years. However, I’ve always been taking other freelance jobs on the side. As a freelancer, I’ve worked on short documentaries and corporate films for National Geographic, BBC, Great Big Story, BRUT Media and Aljazeera among many others.
I have also been commissioned by different councils and local museums to tell the stories of their communities. This is the case of Being Brent, a series of short documentaries that I created for Brent Museum and Archives. Working on this project I had the chance to meet local artists, volunteers and other community members that are fighting racism and raising awareness about environmental care and cultural diversity. Projects like this one are what give purpose to my career and make me feel part of ‘the change’.

Estefania R.

Formerly a news videographer based out of Washington D.C. where I filmed most notable events in the last decade. Currently, I reside in Seattle and work for clients like Amazon, VOA, Bloomberg, and Business Insider. I love to work with people and provide a smooth experience. 

Dmytro S.

Núria Vilcom (b. 1992) is an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Barcelona whose work focuses mainly on topics related with resilience, conflicts, inequalities and human rights, especially linked with the Middle East region.

Soon after finishing her university studies in Journalism she started working in 2015 as a freelance correspondent in Turkey, Jordan, Palestine-Israel, Kurdistan, Bulgaria, Greece, Morocco and the Turkish-Syrian border.

During these years, she has covered the rise of ISIS and its origins, the aftermath of the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, the ongoing violence in West Bank territories or the spread of COVID-19 pandemic from Spain, among other issues.

She works mainly as a videojournalist with international media, such as Al Jazeera, China Plus News, Euronews, TRT World or the news agency Ruptly. Also she has collaborated with La Vanguardia, El Confidencial, Zenger News, Betevé, ABC, ARA newspaper, GARA, CTXT, El Salto Diario, El Punt Avui, Mediterráneo Sur (M'Sur), Crític, La Directa, Luzes Magazine, Infobae and Brecha Magazine.

Nowadays she is based in Barcelona, where she splits her time between making video reports for international media and developing her own documentary film projects, often with the association of journalism Fora de Quadre. She focuses mostly on the direction, production and scriptwriting, but is used also to work on the cinematography and edition.

She owns a full video professional equipment and uses Adobe Premiere Pro for editing. She speaks fluently Catalan, Spanish and English while improves her French and Arabic level.

So far she has created the documentary 'Amazics: una diàspora forçada' with Fora de Quadre, and directed two others called 'SKY. The Weird Syrian Kid' and 'Chari'. Also she has developed a project about civil disobedience and how is considered by media.

If you are interested, follow me on Twitter (twitter.com/nurivilcom).

Núria V.

Hello there! I'm Casey, a  Commercial Director/DP, with a focus on Post Production, Currently based in Germany. 
I primarily focus on creating short form content for Brands, Individuals and Fashion Companies for their various social media platforms. 
I am also a Co-Director of the AMVCA Award winning feature Film "PROMISES". 

https://clugada.myportfolio.com/work

Casey L.

I work as a Freelance Journalist/Producer and Documentary Filmmaker in  
various parts of Pakistan. I have done MSc in Mass Communication and  
conduct a Research study on Sports Agenda-setting in Pakistani media  
outlets.
During my professional carrier, I worked with leading News-channels  
and Newspapers like Daily Times, Wall street Journal USA, The Post,  
Sky 749 UK, DM Digital UK, A News, ARY, Channel Five,  JAAG TV (Old  
CNBC-Pakistan), SUCH TV, Al Jazeera Media Network, etc.
In my last 10 years professional experience, I have covered many  
national and International events and conduct live transmissions,  
roadside show, News Reports and Documentaries. I conducted Pakistan’s  
first 360° Sports Show and shoot many sports 360° videos.
As an accredited Journalist of the Government of Pakistan, I have  
special permission to cover news-worthy events and happenings easily  
across the country. I have special command on Sports-content  
productions and already work as Head of Pakistan’s first Sports  
News-wire Services.
Please feel free to contact me if you need any kind of news/media  
services from across Pakistan.

Talent Discovery

Creator Management Platform

Glimmer Studios

Search for top creators anywhere

Top Results