Discover Top News Shooters / Video Journalists in Edison, New Jersey, USA

Harrison James O'Brien is a self-proclaimed “true New Yorker.” Born and raised in the Lower Eastside of Manhattan, Harrison is a fan of bacon-egg-and-cheeses, Nas, and Yankee fitteds. Harrison first brought his camera out into the streets in 2009, opening up a world of light previously unbeknownst to him. Harrison found that the essence of a moment could last forever within a photograph captured in a single instant. Through immense training and dedication, Harrison honed his visual prowess; going on to capture genuine moments within the human experience and celebrating everyone’s unique characteristics in front of his lens. Harrison James O'Brien is the next driving force in the world of photography. Harrison resides in the East Village with his partners in crime, Big Meech & Bumpy Johnson.

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I like telling hidden, character-driven stories with a video camera. I have a passion for people and a dedication to excellence. I've been doing journalism since I was 10 years old and there's not enough I could learn about the art of telling stories. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in telecommunication and film with a focus on sports broadcasting, I decided to share my passion with future generations as a 2013 Teach For America corps member where I taught 7th grade for two years. I am a Master's of Journalism Candidate at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University where I am grateful to be able to focus on documentary storytelling. I've produced videos with social justice, sports, music/entertainment, and political themes. I'm appreciative of my past experiences and excited for what's next.

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I have always been completely passionate about my job and continuously looking forward improving my professional experiences. I was born in Brazil and came to the US for the first time in 2011 to have an exchange experience in the state of Indiana, where I studied at Ball State University. For four years, I've been a reporter and editor for a big music festival in Southern Brazil called Planeta Atlantida. I have also worked for an advertising company as an online content creator, using my creativity and journalistic skills to innovate communication paths for several companies. Since 2013, I've been living in NYC to study in institutions such as NYFA, NYU and Columbia. Currently I am working as a news producer for the international office of Globo TV, the largest broadcaster in Brazil and in South America.

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Reiley is a freelance video editor and cinematographer based in Brooklyn, New York. With a passion for documentary storytelling, she creates emotional and honest stories about the people, places and companies that connect us all. She has worked for the New York Women's Foundation, George Lange Studio, the International Women’s Health Coalition, Encore.org, and Talking Eyes Media on projects ranging from business vignettes to event coverage to describing the conflict between humans and wildlife in Kenya. Prior to pursuing a freelance career, Reiley worked as a staff photographer at the Gillette News Record in Gillette, Wyo. Reiley graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010 with a degree in photojournalism and a double minor in chemistry and biology. To view examples of her work, please visit: reileywooten.com

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Hello, My name is Michael Tomczyk. I have been in the media/TV industry for more than a decade. Most of that time was spent at NBC in NYC where I filled a variety of roles in many different platforms for many brands in their portfolio. I'm currently working as a Freelance Field Producer/Shooter/Editor not only in broadcast but also within the digital space. I have traveled extensively throughout the United States as well as outside of the country Producing, Shooting, and Editing original content. I own all of my own HD cameras, lighting, audio, and editing gear. I am a professional, mobile production studio. My website, MikeTom.net has my detailed resume and video reel. I look forward to discussing a possible professional relationship with your organization. Thank you, Michael Tomczyk

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Thierry Humeau is a director of photography and licensed pilot, drone owner & operator. In the late 80s, he started as a photojournalist with Sigma Photo Agency in Paris. A few years later, Thierry moved to the US, migrated to TV & Film production and launched Télécam Films located in Washington DC. He has traveled around the globe for often, difficult and challenging assignments covering current affairs, humanitarian, education and development issues. His work can be seen worldwide in award winning television programs on networks such as National Geographic TV and Al Jazeera Media Network. He also consults with Sony and AVID Technology on the development and testing of large sensor cameras and file based editing products. Thierry also pursued a 10-year career in the sport of whitewater kayaking culminating with a participation in the 1992 summer Olympic Games.

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Nyier Abdou is an American video journalist, filmmaker and multimedia producer. A longtime newspaper reporter, she worked as a print reporter based in Cairo for more than six years. In 2005, she moved back to the U.S. to join The Star-Ledger newspaper, where she worked for nine years and moved from print to video journalism, going on to produce award-winning documentaries and news features with the paper. She is comfortable shooting hard news, news features and long-form documentary and edits in both Premiere and Final Cut Pro. She is capable of writing and voicing narration, as well as cutting nat-sound packages. Her work has earned six New York Emmy awards, including best documentary and writing for her recent documentary, “Being George,” as well as awards from the National Press Photographers Association and the Associated Press Sports Editors.

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Bohdana Smyrnova started making films at the age of 17 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Her short film Les demarches des papiers had already received international recognition when she moved to New York in 2005 to join NYU's graduate film program with the Dean's Fellowship. Till date, Bohdana's shorts have been screened at more than 200 events around the world including French theatrical release and prestigious festivals such as Rotterdam, Clermont-Ferrand, Taipei Golden Horse, and Slamdance, garnering over 20 awards. A film maker with a distinct voice, Bohdana explores through her stories complex human relationships, desires conflicting with reality, and situations that pose no right choice. She is currently developing a 'Nirvana Guesthouse' feature film to be shot in 2015 in India, USA, and Ukraine.

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Tom Bentey is a Jersey boy made good. Tom grew up in Edison, New Jersey and spent his summers at the Jersey Shore. He studied English at Rutgers, and acted in several student films and plays. Tom’s new found passion for acting changed his path in life, as he went on to act in many Off-Broadway plays and independent films. After three years of being in front of the camera, Tom developed an interest in directing and began to write his own screenplays.Tom enrolled in the Masters of Arts program in Media Studies at The New School in New York City, to hone his newfound interest in the art and craft of filmmaking. It is at the New School, where Tom wrote, directed and starred in his first feature length film “At The Jersey Shore“. His directorial debut went on to screen at national film festivals and received international Cable VOD, iTunes, Amazon.com distribution in 2012.

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I am a multimedia journalist specializing in broadcast and web video with international reporting experience working in Central and East Africa. I just completed working on a documentary project for National Geographic entitled Parched. It is a four-part investigative look into the global water crisis. I bring diverse experience to the table and a passion for filmmaking shaped by my international reporting, proficiency in deep and creative research and extensive, hands-on experience with social media platforms. I am committed to discovering, developing and telling powerful stories that connect help audiences connect with the critical issues of our time. I have an M.A. in International Reporting from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in Media Studies from the Catholic University of America.

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I am a shooter, producer, director, editor and shooter. I've worked in capacities from a one-man crew in war zones to the director of branded series with large crews. I specialized in serialized storytelling for online media. My work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Buzzfeed World, Global Post, Engadget, TechCrunch and quite a few other spots. I'm based in Brooklyn, but I've traveled widely. I covered the conflict in Eastern Ukraine for The Times the last two years. I was the Visuals Editor for Southern California Public Radio in my last full-time venture, where I built the desk from scratch and launched a visuals blog. I know how to light an interview or a scene. I can also be my own sound engineer. I speak Russian, and I've spent enough time in Israel and Iraq to be able to ask around in Arabic.

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Kayla Tong (b. 1993) is a cinematographer and director. She was born in colonial Hong Kong, molded by Los Angeles, and briefly called Missouri and Lisbon home in between. After graduating from USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2015, her narrative and documentary work have screened in a number of venues such as The New Yorker Documentary Series, Busan International Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, and LA Shorts Fest. Kayla is a Busan’s Asian Film Academy's cinematography fellow, a Visual Communications’s Armed with a Camera Fellowship directing fellow. Kayla's rootless upbringing and encounters with people from around the world inform the themes of much of her work, telling stories of diaspora and displacement. Cinema is her way of sharing her lifelong study on the human condition by confronting it everyday with a deep curiosity.

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I offer extensive experience as a journalist and video producer, backed by about 20 national and local awards. I began as a daily newspaper reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, followed by the Louisville Courier Journal & Times. I became an investigative reporter at WHAS-TV in Louisville, and later for WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C. I now operate a video production company. We've produced countless marketing, training and documentary videos. Highlights included producing graduation documentaries for 10 classes at the United States Naval Academy. Our training videos and documentaries are shown nationally and internationally. We offer our clients excellence, clarity and value. What we've done for others we can do for your organization: Richard Krantz, president of Pilot Productions, Columbia, Maryland.

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Shawn Baldwin is a documentary filmmaker, photographer and multimedia journalist based in Berkeley, California. His work is published in The New York Times, Stern, Newsweek, Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg Businessweek and The New York Times Magazine. Shawn lived in the Middle East for more than a decade covering war in Iraq, revolutions in Egypt and Libya, and the growing influence of hardline Islam across the Arab world. He has worked throughout the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe on stories. He is the recipient of the 2016 Dorothea Lange Fellowship and has won several awards including Magazine Portrait & Personality in the Best of Photojournalism competition for his work in Afghanistan. Shawn studied documentary filmmaking at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. His first documentary film "After the Revolution" will premiere this year.

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Winner of a New York Emmy®, finalist for the Oscars®-Student Academy Awards, and winner of a Gaudi® Catalan Academy Award after being nominated on three occasions, Alex Lora is a Spanish filmmaker based in New York City who has screened twice at Sundance Film Festival as Official Selection. Listed as one of the top 10 promising Spanish directors to watch for in Variety's Cannes Edition of 2014, his work has received over 100 awards, being officially selected in some of the most internationally-acclaimed film festivals. Alex has also participated at Berlinale's Talent Campus, Guadalajara Doculab, Dok.Incubator, Screenwriting CineQuaNon lab and IFP independent Week. He has taught film at several prestigious universities and received his MFA in Media Arts Production at City College of New York as a Fulbright scholar, mentored by Antonio Tibaldi and Chantal Akerman.

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JAY GUNNING grew up in rural Australia. The driving purpose for all of his work has been to demonstrate the similarities of all cultures and ethnicities with the intention of breaking down social preconceptions. After working internally for international NGO's fighting to alleviate poverty he has a deep understanding of politics and implications relating to story telling. As a result, Jay has worked with numerous NGO's as a creative in house and in the field to help achieve their visual needs. Jay has had several inclusions and three solo exhibitions plus awarded success within the advertising industry. Inspired to explore and gain a greater understanding of communities around the globe is part of his pursuit of positive social change and these values are reflected in his urban works. He currently lives in New York City.

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I am a freelance television news cameraman and editor with almost twenty years experience in video and television production. As a freelance cameraman and editor, my clients have included Aljazeera International, Associated Press (AP) Television, France 2, CNBC, Canal Plus, BFM TV, and NBC Newschannel. David has worked as a staff photojournalist at the ABC and CBS affiliate stations in Washington, DC, and has been director of photography on a number of corporate productions. His international experience includes shooting documentaries for the United Nations FAO in Sierra Leone and a Caribbean Production company in Curaçao. David’s award-winning independent documentary Rhythm, Rhyme and Life was selected for three film festivals across the United States, most notably the New York International Independent Film Festival, in 2003.

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Chris Esper is an award-winning director based out of Attleboro, MA. Originally from New Jersey, Chris developed a passion and love for film at a very young age. When he was in his teens, he received his first camera and started experimenting with it. After high school, he attended New England Institute of Technology in East Greenwich, RI where he received his Bachelor's Degree in Digital Recording Arts. He has since directed several short films which have gone on to screen at a number of film festivals and win several awards. Aside from short films, he has also directed music videos, corporate videos and has also worked on other New England productions in the camera and editing department while building a name for himself in the process. With several projects on the horizon including a feature film, Chris continues to work closer to his dreams.

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My name is Kenneth Klemens, I am a multimedia producer and photojournalist focusing on short documentary films in the feature and news genres. My passion is photography, specifically its unique ability to tell a story with a silence and stillness that no other medium can. I held an internship at the Cape Argus Newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa for four months as a news photographer. I believe a story is best delivered when shown rather than told. Visual journalism, bringing my audience to a place or event is what I try to do with each story. I am a University of Connecticut graduate of 2015 and I am currently freelancing for multiple organizations at UConn. I'd like the opportunity to work on a creative team at some publication or website and collaborate with others in editorial work and content gathering.

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Dynamic, all-round producer, with excellent track record of producing high quality broadcast stories. Video journalist highly skilled in efficiently conceptualize and edit news packages created in the field. Strong visual storytelling, creative shooting and experience in working on sensitive and even dangerous topics. Strong news judgment and knowledge of hard news journalism machinery. Able to take care of day to day coverage of stories and to take on breaking news stories at short notice. Fields of expertise: international politics, financial, sports, lifestyle, culture, showbiz. Proficient in independent production. Investigative journalist specialised in the transnational activities of Italian Mafia in Europe, in particular in the financial strategies of the New ‘Ndrangheta” (Calabrian Mafia) in Italy and abroad.

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