Discover Top Freelancers in Ethiopia

Our company, Eternal-Media Communications Advertising and Production PLC is a premier full-service communications, advertising and Production Company located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was originally established in 2010 as an advertising and promotion company. Since then, Eternal-Media has grown to an all-inclusive, full-service communications agency. We have a mix of communications professionals with wide ranging expertise including market research, design, messaging and project management. A typical brand engagement is a true team effort where our team collaborates closely with yours to discern your organization’s true strengths and present them to the marketplace. Besides the creative thinking process, we provide wide variety of services making Eternal-Media a one stop center and our services can be categorized in the following major divisions. * Branding and Creative Design * Audio & Video Production * Web Design & Management * Social Media Management * Interaction Design * Marketing Consultancy * Media Buying & Monitoring * Event Management & BTL Activation

• Music Composer
• Sound Designer
• Sound Mixer
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Creative Director
• Colorist
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Fixer
• Production Company
• Post-Production Manager
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Social Media Producer
• Audio Storyteller
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture

Maheder is an Ethiopian documentary photographer/Videographer born and based in Addis Ababa. She has a very rich experience working with numerous non-profit organizations, documenting and telling important stories for more than six years. Maheder also freelances for major news agencies like AFP, Reuters and Mongabay and is also a member of international associations such as Women Photograph. Moreover, Maheder has been accepted to numerous prestigious programs like World Press Photo Masterclass East Africa and New York Times Portfolio review 2019 and has made a presentation at World Press Photo, Netherlands 2018 and RAY Festival, Germany, 2018. She is also a contributor for @everydayafrica on Instagram and has recently founded Center for Photography in Ethiopia (CPE), a learning and discussion platform for Ethiopian Photographers. She recently curated a photography exhibition titled “Baxxe:Home” and has also co-edited a photography publication titled Against Gravity.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP

My Name is Yidnekachew Lemma. TV journalist and Film Producer based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I have got more than 10 years experience in audio-visual Production and film production industry. During my stay in the production industry, I have produced a number of documentaries, Cinema films, Local TV Programs and dramas, Various TV spots and Radio Advertisements, various feature stories and news stories for many international media houses such as Aljazeera, CNN, BBC, CGTN, Press TV, VOA, TRT, TRD, Routers and currently working as stringer TV correspondent for the Associated Press and Aljazeera based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Full-Service Live Production
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Fixer
• Production Company
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

Beza Hailu Lemma is an Ethiopian filmmaker, fixer, and field producer based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He has written, directed, and independently produced factual tv content and several short films, including Ballad of the Spirits (2017) and Adeby Abeba (2019). He has also worked on countless foreign productions as a fixer and field producer, most prominently on the Al Jazeera documentary series "My Ethiopia" (2019). Beza was an artist in residence at the Africa Center in Australia (2017) and the Realness Screen Writing Residency (2019) in South Africa. He has also participated in Berlinale Talents, IEFTA Addis to Cannes Program, TIFF Filmmakers Lab, and Produire au Sud.

• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Field Producer
• Fixer
• Production Company
• Post-Production Manager
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Documentary DP

Spanish filmmaker/photographer based in Ethiopia since 2010. With a deep understanding of the country, fluent in the language, I'm married to an Ethiopian-American artist, forming a vibrant multicultural family of six. Through traveling and filmmaking, I have found immense joy in my work, embracing it with the curiosity and wonder of a child.

• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Landscape Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Field Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Fixer
• Production Company
• Production Coordinator / Crewing

Elias Meseret is Correspondent for the AP news agency based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is also an Editor at Ethiopia Check, a fact checking platform established in Ethiopia. He worked as a journalist in Ethiopia for more than ten years.

• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Reporter / Journalist

Africa-based multimedia journalist with bylines from South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya for Reuters, VOA, AP, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Washington Post, and others.

• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Audio Storyteller
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist

An experienced journalist based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

• Full-Service Live Production
• Fixer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist

An award wining photographer and videographer based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Fashion Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Documentary DP

Corespodent & Sudan Radio commentator for Aljazeera & BBC channels Writer ln African political issues Translator English _ Arabic

• News Shooter / Video Journalist

• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Transcriber
• Translator

Writer, Reseasrcher on African Affrias.

• Reporter / Journalist

Tamara Dawit merges arts and social justice together through her projects. For ten years she led the 411 Initiative For Change, an arts organization for which she produced multi arts presentations that toured to over 500,000 young people across Canada. Tamara has extensive experience working in the music industry both in North America and Ethiopia. Tamara produced the documentaries Forgotten Children (2007, EOne) and Girls of Latitude(2008, MTV/CTV) and she produced and directed Grandma Knows Best? (2014, Bravofactual/Planet Africa/Globe&Mail), a short documentary exploring the thirty-year friendship between her two grandmothers. Finding Sally (CBC) is her first feature documentary. Tamara has been selected to participate in the following programs: Durban Talent Lab (2016), Berlin Talent Lab (2015), and Reel World Lab at the Toronto International Film Festival (2014). Tamara is of Ethiopian, Eritrean, Ukrainian and British ancestry. Tamara is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where she splits her time between working on interactive productions, music and film projects.

• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Documentary DP

I was born in Cordoba, Argentina in 1975 in a family of Lebanese migrants. Before being interested in photography I majored in Economical Sciences, worked as an independent consultant for a couple of years, got deeply bored, and started to travel. I started learning photography on my own and worked as a freelance photographer in Palestine in 2005. In 2006 I developed the participatory photography project “Identity Document”, with children of migrant workers in Israel. During that time I’ve co-founded Activestills (a collective of activist photographers in Israel and Palestine) and created Activevision, an organization dedicated to participatory photography and video, also based in the Middle East. For my work in Palestine I got a scholarship from the Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona to study for a master degree in photojournalism, which I completed in 2007. In Barcelona I co-founded the collective Ruido Photo and created and directed the school of photography Ruido Formación, and also launched the online magazine 7dot7. In 2009, with my colleagues of Ruido and ElFaro.net, I worked in Mexico documenting the migration route of Central Americans on their way to the United States. This project became a photo book published by Blume, it’s called “En el camino”, and it was prized as the Best Photobook of the year 2011 by the PoYi Latam prize. In some moment I read that shooting was the most popular sport in Switzerland, so in 2010 was able to start the project “Neutral Fire” about that, the heirs of Willhiam Tell. Geo France commissioned it and I also got a grant by the Arts Council of Catalonia. In 2011 I developed the project “Masafer”, documenting the life of the cave-dwelling communities of South Hill Hebron, Palestine. The project was not much published, but the experience of living with the communities for more than a year was one of the best of my life. In 2013 started to work for the first time in Himalayan glaciers: through an USAID Scientific Climbing Grant was able to documentthe efforts of ETH Zurich glaciologist and the local population in order to record the changes in the glaciers in the Langtang area. The project become “All the Ices the Ice”. In 2014 I fell in love with Gaza and its people, then the bombings started. I decided to stay, but had no clue of what I was doing there. The photos became 2 projects: one is called “What Remains” and is a more serious documentation of life in Gaza in that time, and the other one is “Gaza Mode d’Emploi”, perhaps not so serious but yes more honest and in tone with the local sense of humor. “Mode d’Emploi” was published by Le Courrier International and Granta Magazine, and I’m working in making it a book. Besides in Spanish I can talk quite an interesting amount of non-sense in English, Hebrew, Arabic, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan and French. I’m currently based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where I work as a freelance photographer and an AFP contributor.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

Joshua Smith is a filmmaker and photographer currently based in Ethiopia. He specializes in video production and photograghy for NGOs and publications. Between assignments he is working on long term projects in the Somali region and began a feature length documentary on modern Somali poetry. Joshua is the Multimedia Director of Ayaana Media + Publishing, an Ethiopian based company. Since 2012, we have focused our work on two main passions: the beauty of Ethiopia and local languages. We have over 10 years experience in film, photography, design, translation, online and physical publications in Somali, Oromo and English. With a diverse staff of local and international media experts, we partner with the local community and our clients to tell stories that value culture, educate and inspire.

• Sound Designer
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Fixer
• Production Company
• Post-Production Manager
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• Transcriber

Melkamu Haile, a filmmaker and a screen writer with a passion for storytelling. Melkamu Haile has been in the film industry for number of years and has worked on a variety of projects, including commercials, television series, and short films. Overall, Melkamu Haile is a dedicated filmmaker & screenwriter who is passionate about his craft. He is always looking for new and exciting projects to work on and is committed to creating stories that entertain, inspire, and move audiences. He understand the importance of working closely with directors, producers, and other members of the creative team to bring a project to life. He is open to feedback and always willing to make changes to their scripts in order to improve the final product.

• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Production Company
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Series Producer / Show Runner

Zacharias Abubeker is a photographer and videographer currently based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He obtained a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art in Photography from Columbia College Chicago. During his time in Ethiopia he has worked on various photography and video projects for many different organizations ranging from NGOs to print journalism. Some of his clients include: Amnesty International, Mercy Corps, Save the Children International, Smithsonian Magazine, The New York Times, The Global Fund, Results UK, and UNICEF. He also is currently a stringer for Agence France-Presse, a global news wire service, working as a photographer and videographer doing stories ranging from features to breaking news.

• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Field Producer
• Production Company
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator

Fanuel Leul is a digital artist and who currently lives and works in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Africa. In his artwork, traditional elements are brought to life with contrasting and harmonious compositions of futuristic technology. He would say his distinctive personal style has an Afrofuturistic theme that emanates joy and peace, a way that most of Africa is currently not depicted. Even though Fanuel Leul has a BFA from Alle School of Fine Arts in Industrial Design and Fine Art, he considers himself a self-taught artist. He has been creating digital artwork for five years now, honing his theme and skills throughout the years. His vision is to re-awaken and inspire other African artists so that they get to tell their stories in their own way.

• Art Director
• Storyboard Artist
• Graphic Designer
• Illustrator
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Creative Director
• Colorist

I am self-taught filmmaker born and raised in Addis Ababa. My background was computer science, which introduced me to the world of graphics design, computer animation and game development. After years of jumping around, I found my passion in story-telling and teaching. I have worked on hundreds of television commercials, a dozen documentaries, a couple of TV Shows and 5 feature films. In the past 17 years I wore many hats as an animator, drone pilot, director, editor, graphic designer, instructor, interior designer, photographer, producer, software developer, visual effects supervisor, web developer and a writer.

• Motion Graphics Designer
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Production Company
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP

Based in Addis Ababa, Yikunoamlak Mulugeta is a talented Filmmaker and TV Producer. He obtained his MBA in Small and Medium Enterprise Management from Leipzig University in Germany and has since spent over a decade actively working in the industry. Yikunoamlak has lent his expertise to some of the most prestigious TV stations in the country including KANA TV, EBS TV, and DSTV’s ABOL TV, where he contributed as a Content Producer and Director. He aspires to create movies that celebrate the varied and rich history and culture of his home country, Ethiopia and beyond, in Africa.

• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Landscape Photographer
• Field Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Fixer
• Production Company
• Post-Production Manager
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• Copy Editor