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Melissa is an award-winning documentary filmmaker originally from the Caribbean island of Antigua. Throughout her career in NYC, Melissa has worked with award-winning documentary filmmakers including Ralf Schmerberg at Radical Media, Academy Award nominated directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady at Loki Films, and Academy Award winning director Alex Gibney at Jigsaw Productions. She co-produced episodes of the Emmy-nominated television documentary series MAKERS for PBS and Nine for IX for ESPN. She has produced behind-the-scenes content for AMC’s Original Series Hell On Wheels and Low Winter Sun. In Antigua, she founded and ran her own production company, and later worked as a freelance production manager on advertising campaigns for H&M and Malibu Rum. Melissa was also supervising producer on “Me on My TV”, an 8-part documentary series broadcasting on the cable network FLOW in Spring/Summer 2017. Melissa directed and produced the feature-length documentary, Silent Music, a portrait of her deaf family which won Best Documentary awards at both the 2014 Maine Deaf Film Festival and the 2012 CaribbeanTales Film Festival, as well as the Audience Choice Award at the 2013 Toronto Deaf Film & Arts Festival. Most recently, Melissa launched The Baby Mini Doc Project, through which she creates artful mini "day in the life" documentaries about families and their littlest ones. Melissa has a Masters of Arts degree in Screen Documentary from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a Bachelor of Arts in New Media from Ryerson University in Toronto.

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I'm an award-winning freelance director that creates commercials and films. My work has been used for broadcast and has been published on Short of The Week, The Atlantic, No Film School, Cinephilia & Beyond, and FOX Sports to name a few. My commercial reel includes a campaign for Kiehl's, Kona Brewing Co., and a PSA with Adrien Grenier Kiehl's https://vimeo.com/216921196 https://vimeo.com/216922311 Kona Brewing Co. for Broadcast https://vimeo.com/218972647 https://vimeo.com/218972110 Adrian Grenier PSA https://vimeo.com/227745428 My short film 'Hi-Glow Retro', was featured on Short of the Week, Film Shortage, Cinephilia & Beyond, and No Film School. https://vimeo.com/234265900 Lastly, here is sports short documentary film that I directed which served as a proof of concept for a digital series. It's called 'Waiting' and is about professional athletes who are fighting for another shot to compete at the highest level. Our first story on DJ Morrell was featured in Fox Sports, The Atlantic, APlus.com, along with other publications. https://vimeo.com/202197448 It'd be great to meet you in person or chat with you on the phone to talk about how we can collaborate together. You can see all of my released work at www.alexmorsanutto.com I look forward to your response! Sincerely, Alex Morsanutto

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I'm a professional Film Maker working at Fox News Channel. With seven years of experience in TV marketing, I consider myself an expert at directing and producing. My strongest passion lies in finding new and engaging ways to tell stories. I have extensive global film and writing experience and have worked for clients in four continents. Having a visually creative mind, I’m on a never-ending search for that next great idea or project--the more unique and out of the ordinary the better. As Senior Producer Editor at ONE World Sports, I worked on branding promotional efforts and marketing for ONE World Sports on all platforms. The struggle I see with brands is aligning marketing and sales, and that’s where I come in. I communicate with and execute large-scale projects for clients such as ESPN and FOX SPORTS, while also working with stars like Pele and advertisers Geico, Citi Bank, Budweiser. I continue to deliver on minimum budgets and short timelines. In my first year at ONE World Sports, our team collected award “The Best Network Branding Campaign” by Cynopsis Network. At FWD - a video social branding company - I collaborate with a group of creatives to harness brands through video and social media platforms. Our former clients include Nike, DSW, and Kinky Boots Broadway Play. Multimedia channels and outlets are always evolving and so are our audiences. FWD has been a successful venture thus far because I enjoy the challenge of figuring out and using new technologies to stay a mile ahead of our competition. Let’s get the whiteboard out and start dreaming. My diverse creative experiences, leadership roles, and continual professional development are compatible with the skill set required. I enjoy demanding, ever-changing creative environments. I possess the public relation skills to thrive in any situation, with a variety of team dynamics and an assortment of personalities.

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My passion for Visual Media has led to pursuits in film, television, painting, photography and puppetry. I am currently the writer and producer for an international sports recap show called "This Week in WWE". Currently, I work at an international sports entertainment company as an Associate Producer II. My ever-evolving duties range from producing international announcers during monthly Pay-Per-Views, to writing and producing my own :46 minute weekly recap show that broadcasts to 7 countries including Japan, Myanmar, and Singapore. My additional roles include producing athletes backstage at our live events, and coordinating international broadcasts. Outside of that company, I am a co-producer on an independent film, for whom I recently established an LLC and obtained fiscal sponsorship under the International Documentary Association. For fun, I am a cinematographer for a bi-monthly Drag Cabaret show. You can also find me painting with watercolors, drinking black coffee, and petting dogs I pass on the street. In the past I have worked for Ken Burns as an Intern and Freelance Editor on projects like the Central Park Five. I have also had photography published in books like Monsters by Kathryn Briggs, and Travels with Casey by Benoit Denizet-Lewis. Talk to me! I can be reached at x. I’m always happy to discuss freelance opportunities.

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Chelsea Lupkin is a Senior Programmer at Short of the Week and is known for her short film ‘Lucy’s Tale’, which is streaming on ALTER and has been viewed over 6.4 million times. Her most recent film 'Scooter' played SITGES, Beyond Fest, and Fantasia and is also streaming. She was also the Director of Photography and an original member of the Delish team, an award-winning Hearst food site, producing a number of reality food shows like 'Iconic Eats' and 'Julia Tries Everything'. She has served on the jury at various festivals including Fantasia, Fantastic Fest, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, and the Seattle International Film Festival. She was also a mentor for participants in the Frontières International Co-Production Market in Montreal, Canada and is currently on the jury for the Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition. She is represented by Cinetic Media and Greenpoint Pictures.

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I have been awarded the prize Andalusian of the Future in the category of Culture. I was selected at Berlinale Talents in 2015. My work has been referenced at CineWomen Magazine like an up and coming women independent filmmaker. I’m finishing my next documentary Time Among Olive Trees and the experimental short film Mother and Daughter. This year, I received a College Television Emmy Award with my film project Something To Believe. I have more than six years of experience as a filmmaker. I have created documentaries, short films and commercials. My first short documentary Round Trip was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, pre-selected for the Goya Awards and broadcast on Public Spanish Television. My second documentary film One day in Smara screened in more than 20 international festivals, won several awards including Special Mention in 2011 at the London International Documentary Festival. It was also broadcast on The Community Channel in the UK. My third documentary The Visit screened in more than 30 international festival, won several awards Including Best short film at the Houston International Film & Video Festival; Best international documentary at the International Film Festival for Human Rights in Bogota and broadcast in the public TV in Denmark’s DR2. For the last four years, I have been working as a freelance on corporate videos (for brands such as IBM and Sony), music videos and as a film director at the Marketing Agency - Contentive - in London. The position required me to work in teams, contact clients, make budgets and ensure we met deadlines. As the director of the department, I developed leadership and creative skills and I dealt with organizations such as the International Olympic Committee and Google.

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Marianne was born in Caracas, Venezuela and moved to the sunny (and rainy) city of Miami when she was 13. Passionate about storytelling, Marianne studied filmmaking at Full Sail University and since then has worked in over a hundred productions. She started out as a camera operator and assistant for award-winning documentary films such as, the HBO Documentary "Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown," PBS Documentary "Half the Sky Movement," CNN's DocuSeries "Death Row Stories," and any more. After working with amazing Cinematographers and Directors, she decided to branch out on her own and open up a small production company where she works with small business owners to create compelling stories for their brands via video. Marianne currently works at Cafe Media, a digital media company with various online entities. She is a Video Producer and Editor for sites like www.vivala.com and www.revelist.com and brings all her experience from the past 7 years to create engaging visual content that represents Latinas and Millenials all over the world.

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Audrey Black is a NYC filmmaker with an eye for creating unique video content and Creative Director of Cinealpha Video. Audrey has had her work featured on leading television networks such as NBC, Televisa, Unicable and PBS. She has also worked with film industry veteran, producer and studio executive Sean Daniel. Audrey's versatile experience in video production lends to her ability to create film content that is highly viral. In 2011, she worked as Second Camera and Assistant Editor for the YouTube channel Tiffany Rothe Workouts, featuring fitness celebrity Tiffany Rothe. Several of the fitness videos were showcased on The Dr. Oz Show, including the popular “10 Minute Booty Shaking Workout,” which has over 27 million views online. As an Assistant Director, she did promotional video campaigns for Banyan Tree Residences, Mayakoba in 2012. She was also the Production Manager and Second Editor for a large scale project at the highly regarded, award-winning BPM Festival (2014 & 2015), where for ten days she oversaw a film crew that captured over 72 parties featuring 350 celebrity DJ’s. She was involved in producing the official video promotional marketing campaign materials for BPM, which has received more than triple the views on YouTube than the festival videos from past years. Recently, Audrey created the film Artists Evolved, a documentary about visual artists and musicians from the High School of Music & Art Class of ’69, which was picked up by PBS Channel 13 and aired on June 28th, 2015. Since its original air date, PBS has shown the documentary seven times in the last year. Audrey directed, filmed and edited this production. Today Audrey continues to develop beautiful videos across a wide range of genres. She serves as Creative Director for Cinealpha Video, where she oversees the creation of thought-provoking video content.

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I'm an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and journalist at Studio Koa, a full-service production studio based in New York, NY. My work falls all over the video spectrum, spanning narrative non-fiction film, branded content, commercials, and investigative journalism. Prior to November 2019, i was a staff producer and filmmaker at Great Big Story, CNN's digital network. Before that, I was a staff producer at ABC News and Reuters. My documentaries have also been published by The New York Times, Fusion, The Weather Channel, Al Jazeera English, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among other media outlets. In April, 2015, I was named one of the New York Times' "Selects," a group of filmmakers chosen to direct advertising campaigns for T Brand Studio, the Times' brand marketing unit. My first feature length film chronicled Kosovo's succession from Serbia in the late 2000s. I have since directed several short documentaries that have been award-winning entrants in film festivals throughout North America and Europe. As an educator, I have five years of teaching experience in journalism, digital media and video production at the graduate level. I'm currently an adjunct professor at NYU's graduate institute of journalism.

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Available as Director of Photography/Camera Operator/Lighting Director. I have an extensive background in shooting film and digital formats, both in fiction and nonfiction genres. I started my career from the ground up in Austria in 1978 and came to live and work in NY in 1997. I am not affiliated with any union, agency or political party. As my first language is German, many of my clients and projects are too. I am a legal permanent resident of the US, with an Austrian passport. I do great hand/shoulder held work, every flavor between shaky and steady, I am prepared to be a subordinate operator in case higher powers are in charge but I am also willing and able to take charge as a DP myself. I love to light spaces and people, cater to their vanities, very often to the delight of clients and subjects alike. I call it ‘gentle realism’. Also, I enjoy working with/helming a crew; I don’t push people around - on the set my motto is, “we’re all responsible and consenting adults.”

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Pete Chatmon is the guy you want behind the lens. His debut feature, “Premium”, starred Dorian Missick, Zoe Saldana, and Hill Harper and premiered on Showtime. Chatmon also wrote, produced, and directed “761st”, a documentary on the first black tank battalion in WWII, narrated by Andre Braugher. Chatmon received the 2008 Tribeca Film Institute “All Access” Program’s Creative Promise Narrative Award for the screenplay “$FREE.99”, written in collaboration with Candice Sanchez McFarlane. Through Double7 Images, his Digital Studio, he has directed content for ad agencies, Porsche, Proctor & Gamble, Lenovo, Universal Pictures, and other brands. Chatmon’s career began in 2001 with the Sundance selection of his NYU thesis film, “3D”, starring Kerry Washington. His current project, the short film “Black Card”, is traveling the international film festival circuit and will premiere on HBO in 2016.

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Tânia Cypriano is a Brazilian native living in New York, and working in documentary film and television for over twenty years. Most recently, she has also directed and produced short-format episodes for documentary and travel series on the web. Her own films and videos have won several international awards, and screened around the world in places such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival, and the Berlin International Film Festival. Her television credits include working on documentaries for PBS, the History Channel, the Wall Street Journal Television, NHK, GNT in Brazil and Channel 4 in England. Tânia has extended experience in camera, editing, stock footage research, associate and line production. In these capacities she has worked for clients such as Montefiore Medical Center and Portico Research, in documentaries with Bill Moyers, Martin Scorsese, Kent Jones, Heddy Honigmann and Nelson Pereira dos Santos.

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I am a documentary Director/Producer based out of New Orleans and New York City. I work as a dp/camera operator and as a field producer for hire. I have made 2 feature length documentaries and several short form docs. My first film SHELL SHOCKED, which looks at gun violence in New Orleans from the perspective of the youth aired nationally on PBS’ America Reframed series in February of 2015. The film continues to be used as a training tool for law enforcement, teachers, and organizations that work with teens. My latest film 91% examines the national gun debate through our laws surrounding the background check system and was released through The Cinema Guild. I have worked on projects with Bravo, Comedy Central, Viacom, Sierra Club, City of New Orleans, and The Louisiana Endowment for The Humanities. I am known for bringing honesty in the telling of difficult stories while maintaining the integrity of the people and the truth.

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Christine Giraud is a videographer based in Boston, MA. She is a 2000 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin Radio-TV-Film Masters program. She has worked with film/video in various capacities: production, post production, film festival curation, and teaching. Since moving to Boston in 2006, she has produced various short docs and narratives as director, cameraperson, gaffer and editor. Companies she has worked for include: Girls Rock Campaign Boston, Counterfeit Cow Productions, producer Rachel Koteen, Dream a Little Dream Productions, Subaltern Games, Groupmuse, and more. From 2000-2002, she worked at the Ford Foundation in the Media Arts and Culture unit and helped grant money to film and radio producers. She also co-organized film festivals the Environmental Film Festival of Accra (2004-5) and the Boston Palestine Film Festival (2007-2010). While a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, she taught documentary film at the National Film and Television Institute (2003-2005).

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Tiffany Cooper was born and raised in the sunny land of Miami, Florida. Since her youth Tiffany was interested in finding her voice in the arts. Both her Mother and Grandmother were very strong, encouraging, and positive guardians who influenced Tiffany to be so as well. Tiffany continued her education at the Rhode Island School of Design, with the hopes of growing/developing as an individual and as an artist. After RISD, she gained more knowledge of animation, video, and illustration. Now she lives in Brooklyn, New York and is focusing on Music Videos, Animation, Illustration, and Photography. Tiffany’s intentions as an Animator, Cinematographer, and Illustrator are to use her talents and expertise to help others give life to their ideas and stories One of her long-term goals is to own her own Animation Studio and to produce an animated television series that will stand the test of time.

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I'm a producer, writer and director for broadcast television for major networks, for theatrically released film and for high profile web sites including series, specials and pilots. I apply timeless storytelling devices to innovative filmmaking to create unpredictable, exceptionally compelling shows. Most recently I Co- Executive produced a documentary series about fallen soldiers from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just previous I produced a Bafta winning documentary called 'Rebuilding of the World Trade Center' for Channel Four in conjunction with the artist and photographer Marcus Robinson. I have diverse industry experience in documentary and fiction spanning 17 years including supervising series, producing, story producing, script writing, narration writing, directing, shooting, casting, post-production directing/producing and editing. My work has been broadcast nationally and internationally on numerous networks including Channel 4, National Geographic, Bravo, and MTV.

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Kendall Rodriguez is an Emmy award winning documentary filmmaker and photographer He regularly freelances for Newsday, were he creates day-of-air news packages. Kendall earned his masters degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Clients include: Newsday Nom Media Town of Babylon Feed Forward Minority Millennials Truist Bank Innovocer CrossFit Flushing Cameras: RED Raven 4.5k Canon C70 Sony FS7 Sony A7SIII Sound: SOUND DEVICES MIX PRE 6 II SONY MDR 7506 HEADPONES SENHEISSER G3/G4 WIRELESS LAVALIER SYSTEM SENHEISSER K-Tek KE79CCR BOOM POLE TENTACLE SYNC E TIMECODE GENERATOR APUTURE DIETY SHOTGUN MICROPHONE ELECTROVOICE RE50 MIC LIGHTING: APUTURE 120D LIGHT APUTURE 300X LIGHT APUTURE 600D LIGHT APUTURE LS-1 LIGHT WESCOTT 4X4 SCRIM MATTHEWS BLACK FLAGS LENSES: Rokinon 14mm t 3.1 Wide angle lens Canon EF 24-105 f/4 Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8 Sigma EF 18-35 f/ 1.8 Canon 24mm f/1.4 Canon Ef 50mm f/1.2 SONY 35MM 1.4 SONY 24MM 1.4

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I'm a multi-faceted technician who is well-versed in all aspects of video production. My expertise in live streaming, camera, lighting, sound, editing, compression and visual effects has allowed me to produce over 600 videos for the Web and TV. I believe that documentaries are the last bastion of journalism. Having worked for network news at MSNBC for almost four years as an editor helped lead me to this conclusion. Documentaries can help change the world in which we live. Currently I am working on a feature documentary about a self taught artist who is entrenched in the noise scene, comics, zines, and performance art. I like to hunt for documentary stories about artists, social movements, historical events, human & animal rights, science, technology, and environmental issues. I believe a can-do attitude and team-player mentality makes a great video producer. My goal is to be the best of the best and create content that connects to audiences worldwide.

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I am a multimedia journalist and video producer. I have over 15 years of professional video production experience, preceded by NYU Film School and continuing while I attained an MS from Columbia Journalism School. My photography and/or video work has been featured in The New York Times, WNET Channel 13's MetroFocus, PBS, NationSwell, The Huffington Post, The New York World, Food and Wine, The Finger Lake Times and Italy's RepubblicaTV and D Magazine. I constantly strive to apply my production skills to my journalistic and documentary work. This includes commissioning original recordings of public domain music, familiarity with image and sound archives, and advanced proficiency in post-production skills such as sound mixing and color correction. I speak proficient Japanese and have produced a couple Japanese language pieces, including a short documentary on the Japanese Obon festival.

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Yuanchen Liu is from Wuhan, China. He worked as a journalist and photographer in China before moving to the United States in 2009 to pursue his Masters degree in News & Documentary at New York University. His graduation thesis and debut feature documentary, To the Light, a film about coal miners in Sichuan, China has won the Best Filmmaker Award at the 35th Margaret Mead Film Festival in 2011, held at the American Museum of Natural History. Yuanchen has since worked for Sinovision, Inc. a Chinese language TV network based in the New York City; formed and led the feature department there and developed documentary series with focus on the Chinese immigrants community. He left Sinovision in Oct. 2013 in seeking independent creativity and is now a producer at Shearwater Films, a documentary production company he co-founded in New York in 2011, which had produced feature documentaries and mini docs for international media clients including the NY Times and Setanta Sports Ireland. Yuanchen's experience covering stories in underdeveloped communities gave him the belief that documentaries can be a powerful tool to bring attention to pressing social issues.

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