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Abby Berendt Lavoi is a nationally recognized Producer, receiving awards and honors from the New York Television Festival, the Telly Awards, PromaxBDA, Broadcast Education Association, Colorado State Alumni Association, and the Seattle International Film Festival/Skateboard Film Festival. She has worked with various media companies, which have spanned the industries of TV, Internet, Publishing, Radio, and Music. Her television credits include MTV, MTV2, mtvU, TV Land, Nick@Nite, and Current TV. Since 2008, she has successfully run TeamJADED, a full service creative agency and production studio with her partner, Jeremey Lavoi. She has created video work for Google, Pandora Internet Radio, Bank of America, SFMOMA, TuneIn Radio, Discovery Digital, SF Asian Art Museum, and many others. She is currently working on a feature length documentary, Roots of Fire, about young Cajun and Zydeco musicians. She created and produced the web series “It’s a Rough Life”, which was a finalist for the 2014 New York Television Festival’s History Unscripted Development Pipeline. Her team won “Best Film” at the San Francisco 48 Hour Film Festival in 2013. She produced and edited the feature length film, Rolled, and won “Best Editing” at Mockfest in 2012. She also has an in-depth background in marketing, spearheading campaigns for HarperCollins Publishers, and working in the Sony Music Alternative Marketing Department. Abby has a degree in Technical Journalism and Video Communication from Colorado State University. She was born and raised in Greeley, CO and has lived in New York City, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Her fundamental passion is to tell creative, informative, and socially relevant stories.

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Kathleen Flynn is a New Orleans based photojournalist and documentary filmmaker, who focuses on stories of struggle and injustice. Flynn has spent nearly 20 years as a working journalist, including a decade at the Tampa Bay Times and three years at NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune. She has covered in-depth community news, veterans issues throughout the country, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Thailand, immigration in Mexico, post-conflict Liberia, India’s booming pharmaceutical industry, and the war in Afghanistan. Her work has been recognized with six regional Emmys, honors from the Overseas Press Club, World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, the Edward R. Murrow awards, the Nieman Foundation, the National Press Photographers Association's Best of Photojournalism, and with a Casey Medal, which was awarded for the nation's best reporting on children, youth and families. In 2019 the National Press Photographers Association awarded their Humanitarian Award

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Katie Mathews is a filmmaker and cultural anthropologist based in New Orleans. She has experience in production management, directing, and editing, but her primary passion is creative producing documentary and hybrid films. Most recently, Katie directed and produced the POST COASTAL, a series of documentary shorts about coastal communities’ response to land loss in Louisiana, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and in partnership with the Smithsonian and Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. She is currently producing MOSSVILLE, a documentary feature currently in post production, that explores the psychological trauma of community displacement at the hands of the petrochemical industry, and is developing ROLEPLAY, feature documentary about performance and vulnerability. Prior to her work in film, Katie worked as an anthropologist and ethnographer at global design firm IDEO, where she led qualitative research, using individual stories to inspire new systems in education and the public sector. Katie holds a BA in Communications from Northwestern University and has completed continuing education work at the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies and in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Additionally, Katie teaches Research Methods in Social Innovation at Tulane University, and is currently leading a research and documentary project around sexual assault with students on Tulane’s campus.

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Marcus is a Louisiana filmmaker who has had a hand in several areas of production from local tv spots to Hollywood South films. A New Orleans native and St. Augustine alum, he finished college at LSU receiving his Bachelor's in the area of Communication Studies while working with Tiger TV news and sports, as well as, several LSU theatre and media productions. He's worked in the Louisiana film industry since 2013 and have been apart of over 15 film and television projects during that time. He recently produced, directed, and shot an episode of BetteR, a documentary web series produced by NOVAC, which highlights groups and individuals in the Baton Rouge community in the aftermath of the events of the summer of 2016. The episode focuses on the internal and external struggles of media members, specifically WAFB Channel 9 in Baton Rouge, during the city’s most trying time and national spotlight. What started out as a simple short documentary episode, now has grown into a feature-length project, which is currently in production.

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- A creative multi-media journalist and leader with extensive experience in digital strategy and team development and management. - Well versed in all aspect of digital video production, including interviewing, shooting, field production, live events, sourcing, editing, product purchasing and budgeting, content acquisition, distribution, and social media. - A producer and editor with 12+ years of experience, covering a wide array of topics, including luxury and consumer travel, business and financial media, local and international news, and arts and culture. Born and raised in New Orleans, Kristen received a degree in Broadcast Journalism from Emerson College in 2005 before joining New York 1 News as a producer. After also working as a segment producer at Bloomberg Television, Kristen left TV to focus her attention on web production and online video in 2012. She has since produced hundreds of videos in the arts, culture, and travel spaces and developed and managed teams at online outlets, large and small. Resume: https://kristenboatright.com/s/Kristen-Boatright_Resume-2018.pdf

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Producing television for Fox (Renovate My Family), ABC (American Music Awards, World Music Awards), HBO, Travel Channel, as well as several independent and mid-level studio features. In 2009, the opportunity presented itself to return to New Orleans to produce the 24th season of MTV’s The Real World. Within days of wrapping production for the season, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred. Deciding to remain in New Orleans to film a documentary of the events and its effects of this disaster on the local fishing communities, Come Hell or High Water. Since, Trent has become one of the regions top producers. Running shows and developing content for HBO, History Channel, Discovery Channel, A&E to name a few. Now, RHB Productions, and film fund, Storyville Projects to produce a slate of unscripted and scripted materials based out of New Orleans which aim is to exploit local tax incentives as well as the wealth of story-telling inspiration the culture and people offer.

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Born in New York, Shaquille Dunbar is a professional photographer and the owner of T.O.D Photography. T.O.D (The Optimist Dreamer) Photography was started with the belief that all dreams can come true through optimism and hard work. He uses photography to capture his clients dreams, whether they be a glamorous portrait, your personal brand or a special event. After graduating from Binghamton University, Shaq moved to New Orleans where he became a high school teacher. It was through teaching that he realized the best way to inspire his students was to pursue his dream. While teaching, he spent his free time capturing special moments around the city like the Jazz & Heritage Festival and New Orleans Caribbean Festival. But the essence of T.O.D Photography comes from capturing unique visual representations of all kinds of people. Shaq strives to portray the essence of each individual in ways they may not perceive themselves. Shaq’s work has been recognized by multiple local and national publications like Shuba Magazine, NOLA.com and Vice Media. He is also a brand photographer for one of GoDaddy’s social media marketing platform. Locally, he is the primary photographer for local businesses like K.Allen Consulting and Nola Caribbean Festival. He hopes to continue inspiring his students and commemorating the important moments of his future clients.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Fashion Photographer
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Alejandro de los Rios is an award-winning Cuban-Venezuelan writer and filmmaker based in New Orleans who has worked with the New Orleans Saints & Pelicans, Warner Brothers, MGM, HBO, A&E Networks, Netflix, ESPN, NFL Network and FOX Sports. Alejandro directed “Distant Mardi Gras” which premiered at the 2020 New Orleans Film Festival. He was the series director of “9 for No. 9,” a 9-part documentary on New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees. He won ‘Best Editing’ & ‘Best Sound Design’ at the 2015 New Orleans 48 Hour Film Fest and was named to the New Orleans Film Festival’s Emerging Voices Program in 2017. He directed and starred in the short film “Jalapeño Andretti,” which premiered at the 2017 Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival. Raised outside Washington D.C., he studied writing at Ithaca College and then worked as a freelance journalist writing for ESPN the Magazine, VICE, the Associated Press, Deadspin and others.

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Spencer is a two-time Emmy Award & two-time Peabody Award winning producer, director, writer and showrunner with fifteen years of television and film experience. Recently, he’s produced a range of multimedia and television projects for outlets such as TIME, ABC and A&E Television. His main areas of interest include history, politics and sports. Airing in February & March 2023 on MSNBC, Spencer was the co-executive producer for “When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story.” The four part series produced by TIME Studios explored Giuliani’s dramatic fall from grace, how little he changed in between and the forging of our nation’s “post-truth” era. Also at TIME & MSNBC Films, Spencer produced “Split Screen” with Trevor Noah, a documentary exploring the history of disinformation in American media and the alternate realities now dividing our political landscape. In 2021, Spencer was the co-executive producer for “College $ports, Inc.” a feature-length Vice documentary investigating the NCAA and the seismic rules shift allowing athletes to make NIL endorsement money. In 2017, he produced “World Beaters,” a "30 for 30" documentary film about the history of the Little League World Series. Additional sports verite projects include “100 Days to Indy,” an in-season docu series following IndyCar drivers chasing their dream of the Indianapolis 500, and “Friday Night Tykes,” a close-up look at the hyper competitive world of youth football in Texas. Spencer has made a special focus on producing retrospective documentaries with social themes that still carry resonance in shaping today’s America. Spencer received a 2017 duPont Award as a producer on "Let It Fall: L.A. 1982-1992," an ABC documentary film about police brutality and the L.A. riots directed by Oscar-winner John Ridley. Also for ABC, he produced "One Night in Central Park,” a television documentary about the 1989 Central Park jogger rape case and the five young men accused of the crime. In 2018, he produced "Truth and Lies: Waco," which tells the story of David Koresh, his Branch Davidians followers and their ill-fated standoff with the federal government. When the two hour documentary special aired on ABC in January 2018, it earned the 2nd highest ratings of the network’s "Truth & Lies" franchise. As a director Spencer’s work has included “The Last Word,” a short form doc series for the History Channel marking the 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor. He interviewed 26 remaining veteran survivors on a range of issues from PTSD to Japanese internment camps. He also directed “Toxic Lake,” a digital documentary project for the Weather Channel about Florida’s Lake Okeechobee, Big Sugar and a toxic algae menacing the Sunshine State. It received the 2017 Society for Professional Journalists Award for Best Digital Feature. In 2014 and 2015, Spencer was a co-executive producer at ABC's Lincoln Square Productions serving as the showrunner for "Watt's World," a 13-episode series which aired on the Travel Channel. Prior to that, Spencer produced features, breaking news and investigative reports at ABC News and "HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel." Past projects as founder of Wilking Productions have included outlets like the New York Times, NPR, Vice Media, Wall Street Journal, Esquire Network and the Weather Channel. Spencer graduated from Tulane University with a B.A. and M.A. in History, and has a M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He’s married with two children and resides in New Orleans and Massachusetts.

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I became a freelance multi-media reporter in 2008 after a career as a fine artist/craftsman. I bring to my work a strong visual style- placing value on the look as well as the content. I branched into video and writing in 2010 as a frequent contributor to the Atlantic. Currently I'm a freelance contributor to DeSmog Blog, where I create in-depth environmental reports. Other recent clients include the Weather Channel, Al Jazeera, Ocean 8 media and the Guardian. I have a knack for getting in to places that are hard to get access to. I'm quick on my feet in disasters zones. I am available to travel worldwide and if not booked, I'm ready to hit the road quickly. I shoot with canon 5d mark3s with multiple fixed lens. Can shoot studio set ups as well as out in the field. Major stories I have covered include the BP oil spill, Earthquake in Haiti and Cholera epidemic, Occupy Wall Street Movement and Sandy. Since 2013 my work has focused on the fracking industry and pipelines.

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I am a Filmmaker/Videographer living in the New Orleans Metro area. I've worked in both the TV and the Film industry wearing many hats and filling many roles including as a Commercial Producer at WYZZ FOX43 in Bloomington, IL and as the Production Manager at WHNO TV20 in New Orleans, LA. Presently I run Ghost Cat Entertainment Producing/Directing/Editing/Shooting commercials, TV shows, documentaries, and web/promotional/industrial films. Patrick’s client list includes The NFL Players Association, The Travel Channel, Indycar, Storyblock Media, The Grand Prix of Louisiana, House Beautiful Magazine, Kitchaid, Hearst Publishing, The National Home Builders Association, Dragon*Con Independent Film Festival, The Audubon Institute, Goodwill Industries, N.O.W. Magazine, CBS, Tulane University, Nichols State University, River Parish Football, Cox Sports (CST), and many, many others.

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Silva Means is a seasoned media professional with over 20 years of experience spanning radio, news, film, producing, and editing. With a background marked by academic excellence and organized practical expertise, Silva has crafted a distinguished career in the media industry, known for her innovative storytelling and strategic vision. Holding advanced degrees in Communications, she began her career in news, where her sharp eye and compelling narratives earned widespread recognition, specifically from the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters. Transitioning seamlessly into film and television, she's produced an array of series for Hearst's OTT platform Very Local, where for one she gained an Emmy Award for the series 'Eat, Play, Stay'. She's also experienced in editing a diverse array of projects, from linear to social media.

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For more than 25 years Christoph Lerch has worked as a cameraman in almost every genre including: tv reports for SPIEGELTV, like the New York Festival award winning „Last Stop Homeland“, literature magazines for Deutsche Welle TV, documentaries for ARTE and docudramas for ZDF and ARD such as the award winning „Der Tunnel“. Filmportraits on artists and designer like Wolfgang Joop, Kiki Smith, Campino, Jenny Holzer, Markus Lüpertz, Nina Hagen, Jim Rakete, Helge Schneider, Annette Humpe, Max Raabe, Hanns Haacke, Hans Neuenfels, Bud Spencer, Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman, Alvaro Siza Vieira, Susanne Lothar, David Chipperfield. He was DP on the German prime time tv series „Hinter Gittern“, for which he has shot over 50 episodes. Currently Christoph focuses his energies on filming documentaries. He loves to light faces and shoot handheld. Christoph is living in Berlin and New Orleans.

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I'm a director at CounterTake, a full service production company in New Orleans. We make commercials and content for agencies and brands. In the last year we produced two national commercials, created content for KIA, ESPN, Twitter, JPMorgan Chase, and Zatarain's to name a few. <br><br> Countless agencies have trusted us with their productions including Ewald Campbell, DigitasLBi, KBS, 360i, ESPN CreativeWorks, AMC Networks, Condé Nast, and Rodale.<br><br> We know budgets, producing, and what it takes to get creative done the right way. <br><br>Let us know if you need a custom reel or a treatment for your boards.

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I have been a contributing reporter for the internationally recognized media outlet VICE for a little over five years now. In my time writing for VICE, I've covered everything from Alabama's rural moonshine infrastructure to New Orleans' rising drag queen scene and written about America's first trans congressional candidates. I've also worked for CNN's Inside Man production team working with renowned filmmaker and documentarian Morgan Spurlock and spent several months working on the Emmy winning television series Top Chef. Over the previous two years I reported for a newspaper publisher in the Rocky Mountains where I received 10 Colorado Press Association awards in less than two years.

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Cam Bonelli is a Mississippi-made journalist and photographer who spent two years as an editor in the Bold North and currently resides in Laurel, Mississippi, where the hit HGTV show “Home Town” is filmed. Graduating from The University of Southern Mississippi with honors, Cam served their senior year as the executive editor for the student newspaper, The Student Printz, from 2016-2017. Currently, Cam works as a jack of all trades (photographer, videographer, writer and expert coffee maker) at the Laurel Leader-Call and formerly the Hattiesburg American. Cam graduated in June 2021 with master's degree in multimedia journalism at the University of Alabama.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist

I have many years of experience in the industry as a sound designer, sound engineer and sound editor. I have worked on a variety of projects, including documentaries, short films, animated films, podcasts and sound maps, in Ecuador, Argentina, Colombia, United States, Mexico, Japan and Brazil. Some of the documentaries I have worked on received awards at international film festivals. I have worked as an instructor in podcast and community radio workshops in the Brazilian Amazon, supporting them in the construction of their own stories and teaching them the necessary tools for the production of their own podcasts. I am currently living in New Orleans.

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Albert J. Moten, Jr. is a Producer/Director/Writer born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana and is a graduate of Loyola University New Orleans in Communications. Albert has worked with many feature films that has won 5 Oscars. He's worked with major Hollywood companies such as HBO, Disney Studios, Warner Bros and other independent films. Also, he's a passionate filmmaker who loves to tell stories that are outside the mainstream of Pop Culture. His production company "Claiborne Avenue Productions" creates content (feature films, documentaries, short films, etc.) for all multimedia platforms for the world to enjoy!

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I am a born and raised New Orleanian who holds a B.A. in Film and Communication Arts from the University of New Orleans. A passionate creator, collaborator, and advocate for the arts, my interest in videography and photography began at a young age. What started as a curiosity about all things electronic and a desire to work with various friends’ projects has developed into a skilled passion for combining technology and art. Currently, I am a full-time multi-media specialist at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility. As a freelancer, I've found community through working with different artists and actively seeks to learn from and connect with different people.

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