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Smitha has over 16 years of media, PR, and broadcast experience. She has been involved with countless live events, media tours, and news shows. She has worked for five television newsrooms, and for all of the major broadcast affiliates, including NBC, CBS, and FOX. Her work behind and in front of the camera has appeared on CNN and HLN. Her most memorable story was her coverage of former President Barack Obama, when he came to visit North Carolina in 2009. Smitha also has extensive experience in media relations, and has been an integral part of the earned media team at two different agencies in New York. She has worked with clients in many fields, including tech, healthcare, consumer, travel, education, and finance. Smitha is from upstate New York, and a proud graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. In her free time, she loves traveling, spending time with her family, going out to new restaurants in the city, and riding her Peloton.

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Great work, at affordable prices , Corporate , Conferences ,Commercials , Interviews . Please go my web site to see the Quality of my Video work at my web site bigdogvideoproductions.com My IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1425490/ I have Offices in the D.C area , Richmond , Raleigh and Norfolk We offer field production and post production. We have produced everything from Corporate and Commercials to Conference videos to full feature films. and TV shows I have a full crew audio, lighting and a grip production van if needed. I also have editors, producers and even an actor list. I like the idea that we can work on just about any project Big Or Small and different Production needs and have the ability to do the job and work within The customers budget to make there idea a reality and to deliver On time and on budget , i think is what makes it interesting hope to hear from you , and have a grate day.

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Based in New York, I’m a video journalist, tv host and producer with more than five years of experience in the field and in a studio. I focus on a variety of stories and recently reported from the White House covering the event of President Obama honoring the 2016 NCAA Champion, Villanova University men's basketball team, the PM of India's visit to the white house & the Press Briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest. I was also part of the White House press pool and covered the First Lady, Michelle Obama's last commencement address at The City College of NY. I edit on Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, DaVinci, and Final Cut. I shoot on a variety of cameras, including Canon C300, Canon 5Dmkii, and Panasonic HMC150. I graduated from the New York Film Academy’s broadcast journalism program. I have a degree in international business at Stamford University in Bangkok, Thailand. I also studied at the International Institute of Fashion and Technology in New Delhi, India.

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Sarah Jones is an Emmy winning journalist with a large social media presence and nearly a decade of experience. She can shoot, edit, report on air, produce, take still and write for web for air, web and print. She is one of the top twenty North American Young Leaders chosen by Friends of Europe. And was selected as one of the top one thousand most influential Twitter profiles. More than 67,000 people follower her under reported news tweets on Twitter and in 2014 she was voted Best Journalist in Social Media by a panel of industry leaders. Sarah is a two time International Reporting Project Fellow and while she is an on-air reporter has won awards for her still photography. On more than one occasion Sarah has been invited to advise senior level military planners and government officials - in the US and allied countries - on social technologies. For the last three years Sarah has been a Skoll World Forum Delegate and Online Media Awards judge. She is also behind the international moment of silence and online event to help remember fallen journalists with co-partners like the Committee to Protect Journalists and the UN Foundation's Plus Social Good. Sarah has worked with Reuters Trust; VICE; Al Jazeera America; CNN; ITN's Channel 4 News; Gulf News; BBC World Service; Brook Lapping Productions on the documentary "9/11: The Day That Changed the World"; and ABC 7 News in her hometown of Chicago on a biweekly feature called "Someone You Should Know."

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As a freelancer, some of Randall’s projects have included work with Bloomberg, Discovery, National Geographic, PBS, Essence Magazine, Kaiser Family Foundation, National Institute of Health, NASA, Lexis Nexis, Nationwide, the Raben Group, and Martha’s Table in DC. In addition to freelancing, Randall has worked as a Multimedia Producer at the Voice of America since 2012. Randall’s experience in storytelling began at The College of William and Mary, where he attained his BA in Literary and Cultural Studies: Film. Upon graduating, Randall continued at William and Mary, consulting with students and faculty members from different disciplines to enhance the learning and teaching experience through the use of various multimedia tools, and taught classes on the proper use of multimedia equipment and editing software. Randall attended American University where he worked toward an MA degree. His work has taken him to all parts of the U.S. as well as India, Kenya, Guatemala, Pakistan, France, and the U.K.

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My name is William Castro and I am based in Washington, DC. I am a freelance videographer and editor with full camera gear (Sony Fx9/FX6/FS7 ii with Canon and Sony lenses, wireless mic, light kits and Mac laptop editor). I have more than 18 years of experience, mostly working with national and international tv networks (Aljazeera International, Univision, VICE News, ABC Australia, TRT World). Some of my work experience includes covering the Dallas police shootings, the 2017 Mexico City earthquake, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria, Hurricane Harvey, the Las Vegas shooting, the Sutherland Springs shooting, and investigative stories. I am an operator of ENG and cinematic cameras. I have a lot of experience working with Adobe Premiere. I can perform live shots using Dejero, BGAN, Live-u, AviWest, Fiber and truck transmissions/operations. I can feed PKGS and elements using FTP and Media Shuttle, Aspera, wetransfer and more. I am a bilingual Spanish-speaker and I am comfortable with deployments around the US and other countries. I am very easy to work with in any environment and under pressure.

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I am a journalist/documentary filmmaker with 10 years of experience in investigative reporting on politics, crime and social issues. My last job was researching, creatively developing and filming the internationally acclaimed and award winning television talk show on social issues - Satyamev Jayate - produced & hosted by one of India's most eminent filmmakers, Aamir Khan. Prior to that, I was a prime time news anchor for India's most widely viewed English news channel, TIMES NOW. My first stint in broadcast journalism was reporting for another leading news channel in india, NDTV. I began my career with the print media and have covered a wide range of stories for India's most widely subscribed news magazine India Today and the newspaper Mid-Day. My technical skills include working knowledge of Canon 70D, Canon 5D, Sony DSR-PD 170 camera, Sony XR260V camcorder, Final Cut Pro editing software and iMovie.

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Matt Rhodes is an award-winning freelance cinematographer and photographer who has collaborated with a wide range of NGOs & News Agencies and production houses including The New York Times, Apple, The Washington Post, AJ+, TIME, Change.org, McClatchy, CQ Roll Call, Institute for War & Peace Reporting, Wayamo Foundation, Engangered Species Coalition, WOLA and SideXSide Studios. Matt has covered a wide range of subjects, from live music showcases at SXSW to international criminal justice and environmental issues in East and West Africa. In 2013, his three-person team received an Emmy for their short documentary filmed on the West Side of Chicago, Flipping the Script.  In 2014, the film was awarded First Place by the Illinois Press Photographer's Association in the Student Best of Multimedia category. In 2015, Matt's team at SideXSide Studios produced one of the most successful Op-Docs in The New York Times' history, Transgender: At War and in Love. The film was nominated for a nation Emmy and awarded First Place for Best Documentary by the White House News Photographer's Association.  The Op-Doc has since been made into a feature-length film, “TransMilitary,” and won the 2018 Audience Award at SXSW! Before receiving his MS from Medill, Matt received his BA and MA in philosophy, focusing on ethics, political philosophy & global justice.

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Laura Meoli is a seasoned content creator, podcast host & educator with 10 years experience in Multimedia Production. Her achievements include a NY Emmy Award for her video producing/editing at CUNY, seven Telly Awards and multiple festival wins for her projects, "Give a Little", "Women of Action", "Perspective", and the "Granville T. Woods Documentary". As founder of LoudaVision Productions, she helps her clients promote their business, product or service so they can build an online presence and reach a larger audience. LoudaVision Productions creates digital media including logos, graphics, video, audio and social media content. Her goal as a business owner is to deliver high-end results with a personal touch. She also hosts the LoudaVision Podcast to help creative people turn their passion into a career. An educator at heart, Laura currently leads film production & podcasting classes for all ages, and conducts 1-on-1 private tutoring.

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I am an investigative journalist based out of New York. I've spent years working for CNN, Newsweek, Netflix, NatGeo, MSNBC, NBC News, Al Jazeera America & English. From 2012 until 2013, I was also an editor on the national desk at AOL's hyperlocal news site Patch.com. Before this, I worked at BBC News' North America bureau in Washington D.C. I hold a Master of Science from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. In addition to international broadcasters and newspapers, I have held a variety of media positions a newspaper, weekly and monthly magazines, and a daily newswire. At Al Jazeera America, I'm a news producer, working on feature and breaking news on U.S. and global stories. At Al Jazeera English, I was part of the core production team for the network's flagship geopolitical program Empire. My writing, photos, videos and infographics have appeared in a variety of publications, including TIME magazine, PBS, New York Magazine and the Miami Herald.

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Zack Baddorf is a military veteran with 10 years of video, radio, print, photo and web reporting in more than 30 countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the West Bank, Kashmir, and Iraq, as well as rebel-held territory in Sri Lanka and Burma. Most recently, Baddorf spent a year working as a civilian videographer for the U.S. special forces command in Afghanistan.Based in Brooklyn, Baddorf has produced award-winning radio, video, photo, print and web content for NPR, BBC, AP, the Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times, and other international publications. He also served for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Romania and worked for a year for an international non-governmental organization in South Sudan doing media development. He served in the U.S. military for five years as a journalist, reporting from across Asia and the Middle East. He's got master's in international relations and a bachelor's in journalism. He shoots in 4K on a GH4, C300 and 360 degree video.

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Ramon is a producer and filmmaker with a photography and journalism background, and extensive experience working in the field. He started his career working on commercial television, and then specialized in documentary production, focusing on environmental and social subjects mainly in the Americas. He holds masters in Media Studies from The New School, and Politics from New York University; and has worked for international broadcasters, publications and organizations like Univision/ABC, Americas Quarterly, MSNBC, Interamerican Development Bank, Vocativ, Fusion, Semana, UNHCR, Avocats Sans Frontiers, and World Wildlife Fund. Ramon worked as a senior producer on HBO's docs-series "Outpost" (2015-2016), and his multimedia documentary on the Syrian refugee crisis, "The New Promised Land", was nominated for a Gabriel García Marquez Journalism Award in 2016. His short documentary "The Holdouts", about the Colombian civil war, premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. Recently, Ramon's 5-year-long photography project to document life in Colombia's war-torn Pacific region was featured by The New York Times.

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Jean Marti 535 West 52nd Street ∙ New York, NY 10019 ∙ x ∙ x A quick learner, a devoted, hardworking employee with a variety of experience in journalism and the music field, seeking to utilize my resources, network, connections, studies and practice to further expand my growth in the industry. Education ∙ Borough of Manhattan Community College (Associates Degree in Business Administration) ∙ University at Buffalo, State University of New York (Three semesters in Business Administration) ∙ Baruch College Campus High School (Diploma 2015) Skills ● ● ● English/Spanish (Native speaker) Proficiency in Final Cut Pro, Premiere, Pro Tools, Logic Pro X, Microsoft Word Social Media Account Management (Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Tik Tok.) Experience ● Platinum SoundsStudios (March 2023 – Present) Marketing and Social Media Content Strategist Developing and promoting strategies and campaigns to further expand the operations of the studio and cater to the growing

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Professor Ziyad Motala Ziyad Motala is a Professor of law at Howard University School of Law. He served as an Honorary Professor of Law at the University Of Western Cape School Of Law in South Africa. Prior to his teaching at Howard, he also taught at Northwestern Law School as an adjunct law professor and a visiting professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Motala is a native of Durban, South Africa, and was active in the struggle for liberation in South Africa. He received his B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Natal (South Africa). He has an LL.M. and an SJ.D degree from Northwestern University in Chicago. He is an authority on international law, constitutional law, and comparative law. He served for eight years as the Director of the Graduate Studies Program at Howard University School of Law and currently serves as the Director of the Howard South Africa Summer Abroad Program, which he initiated. He has delivered papers and keynote speeches at numerous conferences all over the world. He served as the coordinator of a one week seminar on the Protection of Human Rights in Africa conducted by the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences Conference in Conjunction with the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Bureau, and the United Nations Center for Human Rights. He has written extensively in his areas of interest. Motala is the co-author of Constitutional Law Analysis and Cases with Cyril Ramaphosa the current President of the Republic of South Africa and former Chairman of the Constitutional Assembly of South Africa. He has also authored Constitutional Options For a Democratic South Africa: a Comparative Perspective. He has co-edited, The Protection of Human Rights in African Criminal Proceedings with M.C. Bassiouni. He also produced the following casebooks Constitutional Law Cases: The Structure of Government and more recently Constitutional Law Cases: Equal Protection and Fundamental Rights. He is the author of over seventy law review/journal, op-ed pieces or books. He is actively involved in projects pertaining to legal reform and administration of justice in various parts of the world.

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I'm a creative and strategic minded producer with a multiverse of experience across: TVC’s, transmedia,branded content, channel branding, digital, experiential, documentaries and virtual reality. A dynamo that doesn’t scare easily in production houses, agencies, networks or on location, with eight years of international experience to back me, I also has an edge for all projects technology driven and am known for some of the below recent accomplishments: Senior Produced on Cannes Lion winning transmedia campaign for Amazon Original’s The Man in the High Castle Developed & produced content for VR platform encompassing eight virtual reality brand films for Telstra Communications, Sydney Led creative and produced international branded content spots for Optus Mobile & Nova Red Room Tour across the US (LA, Vegas, NYC) Branded content producer for clients such as: Toyota, MTV, BBC, ABC, SBS, Foxtel, and The Australian Ballet Specialties in VR producing, creative production, post production, television channel branding, digital/cross platform campaigns Internationally experienced, with work in NY, Las Vegas, LA, Tokyo, London, and across Australia

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Betty Bastidas is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Ecuador, came to the US at the age of nine. She uses filmmaking and photography as social tools to celebrate the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity. She is attracted to issues concerning youth, immigration, and exploring the Latino American experience in the US. She is the co-founder of Maracuya Productions, a bi-cultural production company focusing on creating content on the Latino experience and underrepresented communities for non-profits and broadcast. Betty’s film, Can’t Hold Me Back, following 17-year old, Fernando Parraz, from Detorit as he becomes the first in his family to earn a high school diploma was part of the PBS Online Film Festival, aired on PBS Independent Lens, and streamed on VMe and Univision in the fall of 2013. She just completing DreamTown, her first feature length film following three players as they pursue their soccer dreams t

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Hi there, My name is Rachel White, and I'm a hardworking journalist who aspires to make the world a more inclusive, better place through my work. I am prepared to work tirelessly to tell untold stories and to learn from those around me. I recently graduated with a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism where I specialized in national security and social justice reporting as well as documentary filmmaking. My capstone documentary was nominated for a Chicago/Midwestern Emmy award in the long form, nonfiction category. I recently won a college Emmy award for a show that I produced during undergrad in Cuba. I also previously reported for The Daily Collegian where I covered the Sandusky trial from inside the courtroom. I have reported for numerous outlets using broadcast, print and social media.

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I’m a freelance video producer and editor and a stills photographer based in New York City. I shoot, edit and direct short videos for media, corporate and non-profit clients. I am used to working under pressure, to tight deadlines. I report on current affairs and breaking news stories for outlets like The Guardian, The New York Times & The Rockefeller Foundation. I also work for corporate brands like Standard Chartered, SuperDry and Gartner Inc. I have managed community projects for The Guardian and make personal videos. Between 2018-22 I led video production as the Video Content Manager for Justworks, a tech company based in New York City. My film Saloon was part of the official selection for the London Short Film Festival 2012, the Atlanta Film Festival 2012 and the Florida Film Festival 2012. Saloon was also shortlisted for the 2011 Virgin Media Shorts Competition.

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Five Signs Productions is a full-service independent film, television and online video production company based in Brooklyn, NY. Founded by Dan Howlett and Ruaridh Connellan in 2017, the pair produce imaginative and thoughtful media for the 21st century. Both seasoned producers, directors and journalists, they have created content for the world’s biggest networks, brands and news organizations. Conceptual, strategic, and practical - we can develop a project from initial concept to final delivery, or manage and deliver any component part of the process. Each member of the team is a leader in his or her field, and will execute their role with diligence, enthusiasm, and panache. To discuss a project or to request a service, get in touch. We're confident that after speaking to us you'll be as certain of our meeting your requirements as we are of exceeding them.

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I am a candidate for a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, with a focus on culture, equality, political art, human interest, and social media reporting. My training includes coverage of international politics and culture, short documentary storytelling, investigative stories, conflict reporting, features, AI art, cultural criticism, and long-form narrative. I offer a unique blend of creativity, technical expertise, and storytelling prowess. I have expertise in editing, videography, narrative writing, and multimedia production. Proficiency in editing software: Avid Media Composer and Premiere Pro. Fluent in Arabic and English, with proficiency in Spanish. With a proven track record in video production and journalism, I bring extensive experience spanning various roles in content production for broadcast, streaming, and social media platforms.

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