Discover Top Non-Fiction Film Directors in Hampton, Virginia, USA

Over the last two decades, Douglas has shot on six continents and in over 40 countries on productions ranging from television series to commercials, narrative features to documentaries. Network clients include: Discovery, National Geographic, Travel, HGTV, Animal Planet, A&E, History, ABC, PBS (and many more) resulting in over 100 hours of programming. Corporate and non-profit clients include: T-Mobile, Morgan Stanley, Dress for Success and Greenpeace, among others. As for features, he was Director of Photography for An Affair of the Heart, following rock icon Rick Springfield and his unusually devout fans (Winner Best of Fest, Toronto HotDocs and released on EPIX). and Tanzania, A Journey Within (Winner Best World Documentary, Soho International Film Festival). He also has produced and shot multiple web series including creating the Telly Award winning POV - The Way I See It for Travel Channel.

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Warner Hanson Television (WHTV) is a Washington DC based production company dedicated to creating high quality work in film, television and digital media. Our award-winning productions are artful and engaging as well as smart and genuine. WHTV was founded in 1999. WHTV is a creative team of visionaries and artists who are exceptional storytellers, screenwriters, directors, photographers, editors, graphic designers, and developers. WHTV creates and produces film & television programs on the subjects of natural history, culinary arts, travel, sports, and the environment for major television networks and independent collectives. WE HAVE FILMED in some of world's most remote regions and apply a variety of visual techniques from aerial cinematography and underwater exploration to POV cameras and film-style production values. OUR WORK INCLUDES documentary, lifestyle, sports, news, and reality programming that airs on PBS, BBC, A&E, Discovery, and ESPN. Footage from the WHTV film library appears on CSI, The West Wing, Grey’s Anatomy, and other theatrical releases. National Geographic and the Discovery Networks integrate WHTV’s documentary footage as well. WHTV PRODUCES television programs for non-broadcast clients that include: The Nature Conservancy, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Cancer Institute, Children’s National Medical Center, NIH, Iceland Naturally, Salmon de Chile, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and others.

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Chris Warner is Director and President of Warner Hanson Television (WHTV). He oversees series development, field & post-production, and the technical aspects of the company. Prior to co-founding WHTV, he directed and produced documentaries and news features for PBS, A&E, ESPN, CBS, CNN, and others. Before moving to Washington, DC in 1992 he spent time in New York City as an independent filmmaker working at Global Village and The New School. Prior to that, he produced features for CNN in Atlanta and news stories for the CBS affiliate in Seattle. Chris has won numerous awards for his work in film and television. He has been recognized by his peers for excellence in production over the years and currently serves as a jury chairman for the Cine Golden Eagle Awards. He also judges for the Emmy Awards at the request of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Chris has a joint B.A. in English and Government with a minor in Fine Arts from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He did post-graduate work at The New School’s graduate film program in New York, NY.

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• Video Editor - Documentary
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• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant

As a filmmaker, I understand and value all aspects of the filming process and the creativity it takes to ultimately tell a story that captivates an audience, whether through sheer entertainment, educational motives or by a moral imperative. Each stage of film has to be carefully organized and mapped out, from choosing the right equipment, to casting, to shooting, to selecting the perfect shot, and creating the final cut for a screening. Being apart of several film projects, I have the creative knowledge to tell a visual story from beginning to end, as well as the experience to get the job done. Born and raised in Washington DC, with Jamaican descent, I studied Film and received his B.A. at Howard University and later received a Visual Effects M.A. at SCAD-Atlanta (Savannah College of Arts and Design – Atlanta Campus). I credits Howard University for technically and aesthetically getting him film ready, while SCAD developed his artsy creativity. It’s in Atlanta where I gained several resources and knowledge with the film industry working on major Hollywood sets as a Production Assistant. I was a part of the production crew for the reality series Most Haunted Live, Big Momma’s House, and VH1 Single Ladies. Afterwards in 2011, I moved back to Washington DC to work for Monumental Sports and Entertainment as a Graphic Producer/Video Editor and Videographer. At Monumental, my responsibilities were to create motion graphic elements for in-game arena, producing web and network shows, design event promos, shoot post-game conferences, show segments and interviews; In addition, build corporate marketing spots and commercials. Through these experiences I have establish myself as a respected Filmmaker earning multiple awards including regional Telly Awards for Best Director and Best Video Editor. In addition, it has expanded my breadth of knowledge of the ever-evolving video production industry. My background includes identifying client requirements, managing camera equipment, filming videos, creating shot list, editing content, and delivering the highest quality final products for productions in areas such as sports, concerts, news, digital and social media, commercials, events, and music videos. I have a wide range of industry standard equipment that I use daily. Some of my credentials and client projects I’ve worked on includes Toyota, McDonalds, Cornflakes, Bevel, Wizards Magazine, Verizon, Def Jam, RCA, MMG, Washington Redskins, CNN, Washington Post, MGM Hotel and Casino, and more.

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Innovative, seasoned Producer with 20 years of crafting compelling stories, journalistic interviewing, spearheading creative teams, and operational management. Special skills include working with PM, Princes, Children, Animals, Insects, and Robots. The genres in which he has experience include scripted non-fiction, fiction, documentary, reality, live news, educational, exploration, adventure, archaeology, natural history, wild animal, oceanography, aero and Astro science, meteorology, quantum science, travel, geology, game competition, sports, craft, build, renovation, food, lifestyle, fitness, brand, corporate, commercial, social media, experimentation, and investigation. Networks, media, and clients include: NASA, NASA+, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Animal Planet, Smithsonian Institution, Military Channel, AP, CGTN, TLC, Travel Channel, History Channel, A&E, USA, ABC, BBC, Netflix, Slice (CAN), MTV, Craftsy/NBCUniversal, U.S.-Aid, United Nations, and The Great Courses.

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During the course of his twenty + year career Andrew Paterson has worked for several major media outlets including the National Geographic Channel, CNN, and ABC News. He played a key role during the launch of both The National Geographic Channel and MSNBC, producing programming for each networks’s flagship news journal. Andrew loves to journey around the world to produce award-winning long form documentary programming and newsmagazine features. Andrew and his camera crews explore unusual and exotic locations. He has traveled in the back of a Fedex cargo plane with a pair of giant pandas en route from Beijing to the Memphis Zoo, walked with amateur athletes as they endured the blazing heat of the Gobi Desert, and experienced sub-arctic temperatures while touring Canada’s Oil Sands facilities. His wide ranging work includes an investigation of Aids in Africa, an examination of Chinese immigration to the United States, and a look at the treatment of Thailand’s domestic elephants. His programs garner industry awards including several Cine’ Golden Eagles, the US Humane Society’s Genesis Award, and a National Emmy nomination.

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Meiying is a D.C.-based freelance multimedia journalist fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese and Hokkien. She aims to amplify marginalized voices and produce stories about communities often hidden from the mainstream news narrative. Most recently, Meiying was a video producer at POLITICO, where she created the POLITICO Show on Snapchat and made visual content for a variety of social platforms. She previously interned with the Los Angeles Times’s video department, covered the Covid-19 pandemic in California for The New York Times and UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program, and had a film fellowship with CNN’s Great Big Story. She has produced work for PBS NewsHour, San Francisco Chronicle and Idaho Statesman. Meiying graduated from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and the Missouri School of Journalism.

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I am a writer, producer and director with over 20 years of experience. I founded Rising Night Productions to streamline the video production process for busy communications professionals. I bring my extensive network of video experts and skills in production, project management and digital marketing to every project. My mission is to make video projects easier for organizations of all sizes. I describe my niche as “informational.” I love working on things like testimonials that might help customers make informed decisions or videos that help explain how a product, service or process works. I also enjoy producing video content that helps make complex or hard-to-understand subjects more accessible and memorable. I work with a wide variety of organizations like non-profits, associations and government agencies in addition to for-profit companies.

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As a Trilingual Digital media producer at the United States Agency for Global Media, I create engaging and informative content for various platforms and audiences, covering stories about the human condition, minorities, science, and environment conservation. I am passionate about using visual storytelling to make a positive impact in the world, and I have won multiple awards for my short documentaries. I have a degree in documentary film making from the New York Film Academy, where I learned the skills and techniques of digital filmmaking, from sourcing footage and improving image quality, to adding effects and music. I am fluent in French, English, and Arabic, and I have worked with diverse and international teams and clients, such as AJ+, twofour54, and Aljazeera media Network. I am always looking for new challenges and opportunities to learn and grow as a media professional.

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• Video Editor - Documentary
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Sarah Nelson is an award winning independent filmmaker. She is a Director and Editor at Constant Movement Cinema. She completed and received a B.A. in Philosophy from Salisbury University in 2005 and an M.A. in Film and Video from American University in 2013. Previously she worked for National Geographic Channel as an Associate Producer before setting out on her own to become a freelance filmmaker. She currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her husband Thomas Huggins, who she frequently collaborates with, as he is the Director of Photography on many of their projects. She has a passion for telling authentic, raw stories in any format be it narrative, documentary, commercial, etc…it doesn’t matter the medium it only matters the story.

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• Full-Service Live Production
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Jim Choi is an award-winning director, cinematographer, and sound recordist. As a graduate of the Painting Dept. at the Rhode Island School of Design, Choi has always brought a fine artist’s perspective to storytelling in his documentary films. Having formerly worked in the Public Television Department of the Center for Asian American Media, he has dedicated his career to the documentation of the Asian American experience and its representation to the broader public. Choi directed and filmed Changing Season on the Masumoto Family Farm, which aired on PBS in 2016. Changing Season witnesses the multi-generational Masumoto peach farm owner David “Mas” Masumoto and his successional relation with his daughter Nikiko.

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• Non-Fiction Film Director
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• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Line Producer / On-Location
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Alongside being a documentary photographer and filmmaker, Maen, professionally, is a human rights researcher and campaigner at Amnesty International. Maen considers himself a dedicated creative, always encouraged to learn and explore in the imaginative realms. He has been documenting the Palestinian skateboard scene for the last six years and engages in reciprocal nourishment with this community. Maen has experience as an awarded documentary filmmaker, having made Kickflips Over Occupation. Maen’s artistic pursuit chases him towards documentary photography, where narration and visual pieces fit perfectly to the puzzle making of a good story. Maen is currently a grantee of the Magnum Foundation working on a documentary photography project on the Palestinian skateboard scene.

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Najma Nuriddin of Nsoroma Films LLC established in 2010 is “dedicated to telling organic stories that are unique to the human experience from a cultural perspective. We bridge people and communities together through the arts, striving to be a catalyst for a creative revolution. “Our history is full of rich experiences that must be told and shared. A story untold is a story unknown,” is a native Californian with a B.A in Speech and Communication from San Francisco State University and a Masters in Fine Arts in Film from Howard University. Najma has traveled as a freelance filmmaker working for various independent clients and nonprofits in Washington DC, California and South Africa.

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• Video Editor - News

Award-winning filmmaker and director with a passion for storytelling. As an award-winning filmmaker and director, I have helmed a diverse array of projects, including narrative films, documentaries, and advertisements, across the globe. My work spans various scales, from intimate one-person crews to managing sets with over 50 professionals. I thrive in bringing stories to life, ensuring each project resonates deeply with its audience. Whether directing a compelling narrative, capturing real-life events, or creating engaging ads, my true passion lies in the art of storytelling from start to finish.

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Award-winning senior video editor with 17+ years of senior post-production experience spanning various continents. Experienced at identifying new business opportunities and managing complexity across content creation, product and technical development and budget. Proven record of video-editing of global projects for the world’s largest and most respected organizations. Working under multiple deadlines in high-pressure, dynamic environments. Known for creative vision, technical acumen, and attention to detail. Recipient of Telly Awards for excellence in video editing. Project Online Video Editor of Herstory Docuseries on Shahid online platform. Fluent in English and Arabic.

• Video Editor - Documentary
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• Colorist
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• Senior Editor
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I'm a freelance sound mixer, field producer, and editor based in Richmond, Virginia. Winner of four regional Emmy Awards with my company, Field Studio, I'm an experienced film professional specializing in social justice and historical documentaries. Our films can be found on Smithsonian Channel, PBS, and Kanopy. Clients include Hulu/ABC, Edutopia, Women's Refugee Commission, University of Virginia, and numerous nonprofits and museums. I love finding great stories, conducting interviews, and capturing clean sound on set. And in post, I'm adept in Premiere and Final Cut Pro. In all stages of production, I pride myself on being a friendly collaborator and clear communicator.

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After a decade in television, award winning producer, writer and multimedia artist Emmett Williams started Mission Man Media, a company that has produced dozens of inspiring and educational documentaries, web series, and short films around the world. He has told the story of grieving mothers who have lost their sons in Brazil, produced a web series about climate change in Africa, portrayed threatened fishing communities in Alaska, documented illegal logging in the Amazon, created a Black Lives Matter web series, been part of large scale art performances in Europe and filmed protests from Standing Rock to Washington, DC.

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• Creative Director
• Audio Storyteller

Whether it's a documentary, a feature, photograph or the written word - I specialize in illuminating the unique aspects of a story that others may skim over. I approach topics with empathy, curiosity and professionalism. My goal is for the viewer to share a deep connection and sense of curiosity with the subject, forgetting that any other person was ever involved in bringing the story to life. My work has received many awards and garnered much attention. In 2016 I received an Emmy award for Outstanding Feature in a News Magazine in 2016. I have received Three medals at the 2016 New York Festivals International TV & Film Awards Competition. In 2018, my work received three more medals.

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I have over 8 years of video production experience and have worked with grammy-nominated artists, national & international brands, and beyond. Currently, I serve as the Creative Director and Cinematographer of Odyssey Narratives, my video production company based in Raleigh, NC that specializes in music video, commercial, and strategic business content. Within these specialties, you can find me simultaneously wearing the hats of: producer, writer, storyboarder, camera operator, cinematographer, director, editor, & colorist.

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For 15 years I have been crafting documentaries on social issues and impact brands that activate audiences. I co-founded Invisible Children made famous by the hyper viral film KONY 2012 (100MM views in 5 days on youtube.) and the non-profit Global Poverty Project USA. Responsible for Global Citizen Festival in Central Park every September. I have grown up shooting, directing and editing from Central Africa to the DRC to Thailand. I love working with talented producers and sound mavens to tackle stories big and small.

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