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Constantine Papanicolaou grew up in Ridgewood, NJ. Upon graduating from high school in the spring of 1994, he moved to Berkeley, CA to attend the University of California. It was during his time at Berkeley that he became interested in film and video production Constantine graduated Berkeley in the spring of 1998 with a degree in Applied Math. The following winter, he produced and directed his first ski film, titled “Chapter Three”, which received strong reviews from the ski and snowboard community. After completion of “Chapter Three”, Constantine spent four years working as a software engineer, including two years with Amazon.com designing and building Suppy-Chain Optimization Software. He then returned to school in the summer of 2003 for a Master of Business Administration at the University of Southern California, and to pursue his long-time interest in filmmaking. Since completing graduate school at USC, Constantine has gone on to produce and direct ski and outdoor sports films for companies such as Oakley, Red Bull and ESPN. Constantine is based in Truckee, California.

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Digital Media Producer with 15 years of hands on experience ranging from filmmaking to corporate video to event video to television. The years have pushed me into being a solid all-around type in film and video production, often serving as a camera op / DoP, AC, DIT, sound recordist / mixer, field manager and producer. However, my areas of focus are directing and editing, which allow me to shoot better with post in mind, as well as understand the process of vision and pull it all together. Can't be the master of all. But my diverse background allows me to see the big picture and get projects done, either as a lone wolf or as part of a team. For my production company, one studios, I often subcontract a wide array of dependable, experienced production professionals. So, if you're in need of a bigger team just let me know and I'll reach out to my network. For me, it's all about doing everything I can, including using my resources, to allow for a successful project. I'm currently based in San Francisco and often travel throughout Northern California for assignments. Travel to out of state, or even out of country, is not a problem....passport ready. I look forward to working with you! No matter the circumstances or how much of a challenge, let's get it done!....always with a good attitude. We're lucky to be doing this kind of work.

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Casey has shot for NowThis, MTV, Frontline/World, Comcast Streampix, Nissan, and FoodMattersTV, among many other local and national producers. Her work includes nationally distributed television commercials, independent feature documentaries and short narrative films. In 2013, she premiered her feature documentary directorial debut The Organic Life to sold-out crowds at the 36th Mill Valley Film Festival, where it was included in the prestigious Active Cinema circle. The film won Best Documentary Feature at the Santa Cruz Film Festival and is available online on Hulu, iTunes, and Amazon. Mongolia: Land Without Fences aired as a FRONTLINE/World "Rough Cut" in 2007. In 2008, Casey received a Fulbright scholarship to produce Los Famosos, a feature length documentary set in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She spent 2010 in the Dominican Republic as the First Unit Director of Ballplayer: Pelotero, an award-winning New York Times’ Critics Pick and in San Francisco as an assistant production coordinator for The Two Escobars, an award-winning ESPN 30 for 30 documentary. In addition to freelance work, she currently teaches film production at Cal State East Bay.

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Monterey Peninsula-native cinema camera operator/owner since 2014 with extensive experience as 2nd camera/BTS camera on docs, docu-reality, fashion, narrative films, and lead producer of many live video events. Owner of camera systems generating digital film up to 6k 60fps or 2.5k up to 120fps. Drone pilot/cinematographer with 6 years experience. Expert SlingStudio user with Vimeo Premium & WebinarJam Executive subscriptions for live streaming, private broadcasting, or remote/local video village solutions. Silverstack Offload Manager user for all your DIT needs. Proud father of three boys, former professional athlete, actor, healer, motion picture educator, and performing arts center technical director. Through his company, House of 8 Media, Mike enjoys contract work as a DP or B Camera Op for commercial, documentary, and narrative digital content ranging from TV commercials, docu-style brand videos, short-feature films, infomercials, and especially live events. He thrives under the pressure of live streaming as a single crew member running multiple-cameras, audio mixing, projections, on-screen graphics, and switching cameras....sometimes all at the same time. As a department lead, Michael nurtures the spirit of ensemble in a positive, fun, safe environment with demonstrated experience at advanced A/V Setups and successful crew engagement while maintaining a peaceful, enjoyable workplace even under the most time-restrictive, public circumstances. In conversation, Michael keeps great notes. In preparation, he is an eagle scout. During the shoot, Michael is a knight in arms who uplifts the crew and always makes the client happy.

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I've managed and created digital media for corporations, non-profits and education from locations around the world. I'm passionate about storytelling and traveling, having visited over 40 countries and produced programming in over a dozen. * Over 20 years creating and managing media projects, live event video and webcasts, personnel and production logistics for technology corporations and nonprofits . * Expert in video production from concept to completion, through all phases of pre-production, studio and location shooting, and post production from edit to distribution. * Experienced team leader and mentor of employees, volunteers, contractors, and students. * Administrator of project plans, digital content management, online event platforms, documentation workflows and vendor relationships. * Advanced budgeting, scheduling and related workflow process skills. * Expert knowledge of Mac and Windows OS, Adobe Creative Suite, Google Docs, Microsoft Office, online learning tools. Professional work includes Silicon Valley Fortune 10, SMB and startups. Pro-bono work for the Burning Man Organization, Rebuilding TogetherSF, Relief International and others.

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I am an Emmy nominated producer and director with experience developing, producing, directing and editing more than 400 hours of content. My portfolio includes docu-series, documentaries, original branded digital programming, digital series, VR, feature films and commercials. From 2007-2010, I served as the Producer of New Media at 51 Minds Entertainment. My leadership and responsibilities included overseeing on-air special programming and all stages of creative series development, strategy, production and post for digital and social media platforms. Under my leadership, 51 Minds Digital/Vh1.com produced 3,000+ episodes totaling over 350 hours of digital content. During this time, 51 Minds’ digital platform initiatives set landmark standards for their distribution partners. After 51 Minds Entertainment, I went on to produce a number of on-air projects, for production partners such as Facebook Watch, Amazon Prime, MTV, VH1, Discovery, Bravo, A&E, We TV, Lionsgate and others. Recently, I served as the Co-Executive Producer for the Discovery Channel documentary ‘The Swim’, chronicling a long distance swimmer’s attempt at crossing the North Pacific from Japan to San Francisco. I currently serve as Co-EP at Sharp Entertainment, overseeing the production and post production on a variety of shows. With a keen cinematic eye and sense of visual storytelling, coupled with vast experiences in digital content, non-scripted, traditional TV space, feature length film and documentary production, I have a uniquely extensive skill set encompassing the development, content creation, production and post-production of a wide variety of formats to execute the highest digital standard across all platforms.

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Mateo Hinojosa (M.A. in Documentary Film, Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires; B.A., Northwestern University, summa cum laude) is a filmmaker (director, producer, cinematographer/videographer and editor), as well as an educator, facilitator, and artist. A Bolivian-American based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he works worldwide, exploring issues of social justice and education; public space and art; politics and performance; spirituality and health; and individual identity in collective struggle. He has worked filming neurosurgeries, street art, local cuisine, theater, activism and indigenous ecological knowledge. He has taught cross-cultural documentary skills to diverse groups, from Native American youth to U.S. college students. His feature documentary, Spectacular Movements, follows young actors in Bolivia as they struggle to revive the critical spirit of the recent revolution through popular theater and street interventions. He is the Media Director at The Cultural Conservancy and Director of Woven Path Media.

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Isara is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and freelance director of photography and editor based in Oakland, CA. Her verité cinematography is noted for demonstrating the trust she earns with her subjects and her ability to considerately perceive and represent complex truths at the heart of each story. As a Video Producer for KQED Arts (PBS/NPR affiliate in the SF Bay Area) Isara produced, edited and shot a dozen mini-docs for the web reaching a nationwide audience. She produced and edited the Portland episode of the pilot season of KQED Art’s Webby Award-winning web series If Cities Could Dance, which highlights dancers around the country and the social issues they address with their art. She shot for KQED’s Regional Emmy-winning video A Border Wall of Piñatas Brings a Community Together. Her work has also appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, CrossCut Seattle, EdSource and The Grotto Network. She has been involved in feature documentaries on Netflix, CNN, and MSNBC. Isara has directed, shot and edited short documentaries in the San Francisco Bay Area for the East Bay AIDS Center; Women Organized Against Life-Threatening Disease (WORLD), a grass-roots Oakland org helping unhoused women understand and wean off opioid abuse; and for the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, the only public high school in the US with a World Art curriculum. She holds a masters degree in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was selected as a Documentary Fellow. She grew up in a neighborhood of Boston, MA.

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I am an Emmy® nominated Oakland-based video producer + editor with a passion for creating powerful and engaging visual content. I am a graduate of Northwestern University, and George Washington University’s Institute for Documentary Filmmaking. She was the 2011 George Stoney Fellow at Working Films, and a 2013 BAVC Mediamaker Fellow. In 2016, she received an Emmy® nomination for “Women Dancers Redefine Oakland’s Street Dancing Scene”, published on KQED Arts. Stemming from a background in psychology and the non-profit sector, her focus is on mission driven content. In the past I have worked on feature documentaries, online courses, short documentary & video journalism, and short marketing content for non-profit organizations via outlets including KQED, The New York Times, TED, and others. I believe in the power of media to expose stories and truth, spark conversations, and break down barriers.

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Sarah has spent the last 15+ years working at major media companies such as MTV News, the U.S. Information Agency, C-SPAN, CBSNews.com, A&E Television Networks Interactive, and the 3-D virtual word, Second Life. She worked on the Dreamworks film, Just Like Heaven, starring Mark Ruffalo and Reese Witherspoon in San Francisco and Line Produced the low-budget indie sci-fi film, In World War. She directed/produced/shot/edited the award-winning feature documentary cult hit, Meditate and Destroy. She has embraced the medium of film to bring much needed awareness of ‘sacred cinema’ to audiences. Her love of film began at age 12 when she received the Fisher Price PXL2000 toy camera as a gift. Sarah received an undergraduate degree in Broadcast Journalism from Virginia Commonwealth University and spent one year in England studying media arts at the University of Plymouth. Sarah is dedicated to her mission of serving holistic health & wellness businesses. She loves meditation, cats, gardens, oceans, and drinking hordes of chai.

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After a decade in the film & video industry, Dan realized that in a web-centric world, the captive audience that broadcast commercials took for granted no longer exists. He believes that authentic, entertaining, and meaningful content is what drives people to share a story--not a powerpoint slide filled with value propositions. He started Slow Clap in 2014 with the hopes of having an outlet to tell stories authentically; something he rarely got to do once he left film school. Dan was trained at NYU, where he received a B.F.A. in Film Production from the Tisch School of the Arts. He originally grew up on the Main Line of Philadelphia, but has lived in San Francisco’s Mission District since 2008. He’s collaborated with hundreds of brands like Sony PlayStation, Capital One, TNT, Apple, Google, Norton, Campari, Blue Shield of CA, and Environmental Defense Fund. His short films have appeared in festivals like SF DocFest, Oxford International, Cannes, and others. When you ask his team, they will tell you that Dan is the first to acknowledge when he’s wrong. It’s that sense of integrity and transparency that has helped him grow Slow Clap and keep clients happy. And these core values carry through into the work. What Dan loves most about running his own business is the collaborative relationships he has with his clients. Always open to brainstorm a new project, or contribute to an existing campaign, he loves developing and producing stories in a truly collaborative way. Dan won’t mention his interests outside of work, because Slow Clap is his passion and it keeps him busy around the clock. But if you spend any time at the office, you will definitely meet his better half, Rahel, who’s the secret sauce of Slow Clap’s success.

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Meera Angelica Joshi is an international filmmaker who was born in New Zealand, raised in Australia and currently lives in New York, USA. Meera started making films in high school which gained recognition from teachers and peers. She followed her dream to New York University to pursue writing and directing. While at NYU she gained skills in producing, art direction and editing which helped inform her decisions as a director. She interned on films such as They Came Together and Chinese Puzzle as well as the Dr. Oz Show. Combining her interest in Himalayan art and film, she interned in the film programming department at the Rubin Museum of Art where she helped curate their documentary series, Lunch Matters. Since graduating, Meera has completed two films and worked at Bloomberg as a video editor. At Bloomberg, she learnt a lot about producing unscripted pieces and developed a love for documentary. She currently works as a freelance producer and editor and is producing a web series called "How We Met" documenting the hilarious, unexpected and profound ways people come together.

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Mathew Ramirez Warren is a documentary filmmaker and journalist, whose work has been featured on PBS, National Geographic, The New York Times and NBC. His feature-length documentary directorial debut, We Like It Like That, was broadcast on the PBS show America ReFramed, made Rolling Stone’s “15 Must See Movies at the SXSW Film Festival 2015” list, NBC’s “10 must see Latino and Latin American films of 2015” list, and won Best Documentary at the UrbanWorld film festival. It is distributed internationally by Saboteur Media and is available to stream free on all PBS digital platforms. In 2016, he produced and directed Eddie Palmieri: A Revolution on Harlem River Drive, an episode for the Red Bull TV documentary series The Note, and in 2017 he field produced several segments for the National Geographic documentary series Chain of Command, covering international migration through the Darien Jungle in Colombia and Panama, and ISIS recruitment among Trinidad and Tobago’s Muslim community. ​He founded Muddy Science Productions, a full service film, television, web media and advertising production company, and has developed, produced and edited content for brands, media outlets, organizations and entertainment companies, including Tag Heuer, Converse, Fania Records, TCS Global, Maker's Mark, Inside Hook, Wax Poetics Magazine, Discos Fuentes, California Teachers Association, The Pollination Project, Net Impact, HEAL Food Alliance, CURYJ, The Foreign Policy Association and the Institute of International Education. ​His latest directorial effort, Weed Dreams, is a feature-length documentary currently in post-production about Oakland's first of its kind Cannabis Equity Program. For this project he has been awarded a Berkeley Film Foundation Grant, a Miller Packan Documentary Film Fund Grant, an SF Film Documentary Film Fund Grant, and a Sundance Institute Latine Collab Scholarship.

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Free-Lance, Award Winning, Documentary Filmmaker and Cinematographer (Experienced x 10 Years) 20 x years US Military Experience - Specialties - Experienced Filmmaker and Video Journalist In Austere War Torn Environments, Subject Matter Expert In Military and US Veteran Affairs, US Foreign Policy, Counterterrorism, Environmental National Disaster Crisis and Response To Include Artic, Wildland Forest Fires and Hurricane Flood Conditions, US Stateside Domestic and Fringe Organizations To Include Worker and Political Unions, Super PAC Donation and Lobbyist Groups, Anti-Government and Racial Populist Movements and Organizations, US Government Foreign Policy and National Security Correspondence, Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice Issues, Travel Journalism, Restaurant and Food Industry, Live and Staged Sporting Events, Comedy, Satire, Video Art, and Underwater Video and Photography, Independent Commercial, Narrative, Documentary Filmmaker, and Producer

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Matthew Boyd is an award winning cinematographer-filmmaker based in the Oakland working in feature film, short film, documentary, television, commercial and music video spaces. Boyd's recent feature work as cinematographer includes "Mine 9", (Netflix, Showtime) winner of Best Feature Film: Drama at Cinequest, The Festival Grand Prize at the Arizona International Film Festival and Best Feature Film: Thriller, Best Ensemble Cast and Best Director at the Bare Bones Film Festival. And "Hazard", a dramatic feature starring Sosie Bacon, Alex Roe, Steven Ogg based on the Appalachian opioid epidemic is currently in post production. Complementing Boyd's work as a cinematographer are self directed, shot and edited short documentary pieces including this submission, "A Boat for my Brother", and "El Pastor", a short film about a Peruvian goat shepherd's work in the Bay Area, currently in post production. And "The Space Between Us" about artist Janet Echelman.

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Jonathan Smith is a Director of Photography and editor from Pontiac, MI. He moved to Oakland, CA, in the summer of 2017, after graduating from Eastern Michigan University with his B.S. in Electronic Media and Film Studies. Jonathan uses his passions for photography, videography, and storytelling as conduits for others to share their stories. From 2014-2017 in Michigan, Jonathan worked as an ESPN cameraman and radio host for WEMU 89.1. Since 2017 in California, Jonathan formally served as Control Room Operator for KTOP TV-10, Oakland's government television station, as Social Media and Graphic Design Director for Oakland-based nonprofit Safe Passages, and as Visual Media Director for Berkeley Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Berkeley, CA. Jonathan currently serves as the Worship Projection Operator at the historic Allen Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Oakland, CA. Additionally, he is working in collaboration with acclaimed documentary filmmaker Cheryl Fabio as Director of Photography for her upcoming film Baseline.

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I'm an Emmy-nominated freelance video producer and multimedia journalist living and working in the Bay Area. I was a staff producer with Engadget for four years, and in the past I've worked with a range of outlets including The Verge, BBC, The Guardian, Mission Local, and I'm a regular freelancer for USA Today, Arts Technica, and Toms Hardware. I specialize in science and technology coverage, but also do works on stories around the arts, education, healthcare, business, and live events. I'm a 2015 graduate of the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. I also do corporate video, multimedia communications, and consulting. I teach multimedia production at both UC Santa Cruz and Stanford, and have made videos and motion graphics for organizations including The Berkeley SETI Research Center, Wing Venture Capital, Hotwire PR, First Republic Bank, USPA Athletics School, Disaster Mesh, and Experian, Planet Labs, Symb.io, Allogene, Vida Ventures, and others. https://ctcschodt.com/

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Nisha Balaram is a filmmaker based in Oakland, California, and a graduate of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. She is known for El Equipo (2023), Stephen Curry: Underrated (2023) and Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever (2023). In addition to running her own production company, Mystery Squid Films, as a video producer, she has created original content for clients, overseeing development through deliverables and acting as a director, producer, cinematographer, and editor. Nisha also oversees post deliverables and has previously produced videos for Spanish-language audiences. Recent projects include videos for Google Arts and Culture page, a Planet or Plastic? National Geographic Society exhibition virtual tour, a PBS and Center for Asian American Media special, Radio Free Asia’s 25th anniversary video, and a gardening series for University of California. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishabalaram/ UC Berkeley Bio: https://journalism.berkeley.edu/person/

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