Hélène G.
San Francisco, CA, USA
$600 - $1000
I’m a French-American journalist who films, produces, and edits documentaries. I'm a film fellow and producer at Still I Rise Films. I shoot and edit films for A Moment in Time Productions. Most recently, I directed and edited a short documentary that spans 10 years of San Francisco's "Flower Man." The film won the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Documentary at the United Nations Association Film Festival and the grand prize at the 2021 San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival. My current film, a short documentary about a community activist and how she stepped up to help the Latinx community when COVID-19 hit, premiered at the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival and is screening at the United Nations Association Film Festival, the San Francisco Latino Film Festival, and the Los Angeles Latinx Film Festival. I edited "We All Break," a feature documentary on Haitian Vodou and jazz funded by The Shifting Foundation and I filmed parts of a feature film that premiered in Berlin in the fall of 2021. A grantee of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, I produced and edited illustrated stories on the challenges low-income students have faced during the pandemic over the course of a yearlong project. A story in that project recently won the Online News Association General Excellence for Online Journalism Award. I started my career as a print journalist, writing and editing for magazines and news websites. I've reported for The Associated Press, I worked as news manager at Yahoo and I'm the co-author of "San Francisco: The Unknown City" (Arsenal Pulp Press), which was shortlisted for a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year award. My stories have been published in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times among other publications. I helped start and run Mission Local, an award-winning news website. I've filmed and edited video for television, news outlets as well as corporate clients. I hold a Master's degree from U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism with a focus on multimedia journalism. I’ve been a Carnegie-Knight News21 fellow and a U.C. Berkeley fellow. I've created and ran video workshops and taught video at U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism as well as high schools in the Bay Area. I've spoken at journalism events around the United States including the Online News Association.
- Documentary DP
- Video Editor - Documentary
- Fixer
- Commercial DP
- Video Editor - Commercial
- Production Assistant