Discover Top Non-Fiction Film Directors in Irvine, California, USA

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LA based Director of Photography, Tech Supervisor and Gaffer Experienced in : - Interviews ( Corporate and Documentary ) - Remote Zoom productions - Social Campaigns - International filming

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Dawson Taylor is a filmmaker and producer from Washington State. He earned his BA in Film Production from Loyola Marymount University, graduating Cum Laude in 2017. His experiences in every facet of the film industry have shaped him into a well-rounded director. His narrative films have been featured in festivals across the nation, including BeyondFest, ScreamFest, and Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. His film, 'Otherkin,' starring Georgina Campbell (Barbarian; The Watchers) was acquired by ALTER and garnered multiple 'Best Director' nominations worldwide. In the commercial world, Dawson produced the celebrated 'Make It One To Remember' holiday spot for PayPal, which AdAge ranked as the #2 Holiday Ad of 2020. He also produced 'ALIEN: SPECIMEN,' a collaboration between 20th Century Fox and Tongal, amassing over 5 million views. Dawson was selected for the 2021 Village Roadshow Fellowship and has worked with high-profile clients including Nike, Home Depot, Truist, UCLA, and Verizon.

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Welcome to Boghos Entertainment, LLC, your premier full-production hub nestled in the vibrant heart of Media City, Los Angeles. Since our inception in 2006, we've been at the forefront of media innovation, just a stone's throw away from iconic landmarks like Warner Bros Studios and Disney. Our journey began with a vision to create a one-stop destination for comprehensive media services. Over the years, we've evolved into a powerhouse, providing an extensive array of services that cover the entire spectrum of media production. From the initial concept to the final cut, we're equipped to handle every aspect of production with unparalleled expertise. Our portfolio is a testament to our versatility and reach. We've had the privilege of collaborating with some of the world's major networks and studios, bringing diverse stories and visions to life. Our team's dedication to excellence has made us a go-to partner for clients across the globe, seeking top-tier media production services. At Boghos Entertainment, we take pride in our diverse production capabilities. We've produced over 100 documentaries in the past two years alone, each one a unique exploration of compelling narratives. Our expertise isn't limited to documentaries; we're also renowned for producing high-quality commercials, engaging marketing content, captivating TV shows, and insightful documentary series. Our weekly shows and news coverages have become staples in the industry, known for their depth and quality. We've also made a mark in the entertainment world with our award shows, capturing the glamour and prestige of Hollywood's finest moments. Moreover, our exclusive interviews with Hollywood stars offer a rare glimpse into the lives of the celebrities that grace our screens. Boghos Entertainment, LLC is more than just a production company. We're storytellers at heart, committed to bringing your vision to life with creativity, passion, and technical excellence. Whether it's a commercial project, a documentary, or a full-fledged TV series, we're here to make it happen. Join us on this exciting journey as we continue to redefine media production, one project at a time.

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I am a multi-hyphenate creator. First and foremost I am a commercial and documentary director/dp and interviewer based in San Diego, California (https://www.filmspot.tv - general reel and bio). I am also a contract creative director for the KellyCo Agency. In the commercial world I've created spots in the healthcare, education, tourism and home and garden categories. I also create a branded content documentary series of short films ("Cheyenne" https://vimeo.com/471547605 and "Anna" https://vimeo.com/298766201). Other projects and credits on IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3192747/?ref_=rvi_nm) I also teach Advanced Cinematography and Advanced Film Production courses at San Diego State University. I run the graduate program thesis projects as well. I've also taught at the Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine. As an author, I wrote the highly acclaimed book “Roll!” published by Focal Press (https://www.amazon.com/Roll-Shooting-TV-News-Behind/dp/0240808487) and have several short scripts and a screenplay gathering dust. I also designed the “Birdcage Lantern” available from Chimera Lighting (https://chimeralighting.com/shop/?item=29224). During the pandemic I created a capabilities deck to show available backdrops and equipment for small shoots (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lLl_DFDkgizjZvcBImmRtWNrZiYFpThL/view?usp=sharing). When I'm not filming or talking about filming, I'm either out camping, traveling or working my small vineyard of Tempranillo (https://www.instagram.com/rich.underwood.501/) I gave up the motorcycle a year ago, still weighing whether that was a good idea or not.

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Rachel Bardin is a cinematographer and director based in California. She excels in a variety of filming environments, from one-man-band verité, sit down and on the fly interviews, to fully-crewed narrative and commercial sets. She grew up in a small Florida town of less than 300 people and found her way into filmmaking via the circuitous route of photography, surfing and writing. She was the Director of Photography for Citizens At Last, a documentary about the women's suffrage movement that premiered on PBS in March 2021. Films that she has directed have been awarded the Special Jury Prize at IFFBoston and Best Short Documentary at Flyway Film Festival, and they have screened at the Austin Film Festival, the American Society of Cinematographers, Marfa Film Festival, the American Conservation Film Festival and the PBS Online Film Festival. Her commercial clients include: Atlantic Re:think, Recount Media, CIT Group, National Instruments, Humanities Texas, Two Shot West, Sun Bum, FIS Mobile and the Surf Station

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Dave Ragsdale Director - Creative Executive Producer - Editor As a hands-on content creator, I partner with production companies, agencies, film studios, broadcast networks, digital creators, and corporations to nurture productions from initial concept through distribution. My service offerings parallel a full-service production company minus the markup. Tenacity and integrity are the foundation of my success. Creative content production & development capabilities: * broadcast/digital creative content * live multi-camera production & direction * narrative feature films * documentaries * bts - epk - red carpet * tech, corporate, fashion, & entertainment branded content * transmission - satellite & digital It's my honor to create content for Sony Pictures, FX Networks, Live Nation, Disney, FremantleMedia, Warner Bros., CBS, Universal, The Rolling Stones, U2, Beyonce, The Who, SOREL, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Estee Lauder, LOFT, Pepsi, SAP, Intel, Electronic Arts, Tishman Speyer - TOP OF THE ROCK, and Hilton Hotels (amongst others). I produced the multi-award-winning indie narrative feature film Pink Opaque. Following our highly successful 2020 film festival tour, Pink Opaque is headed into distribution with 1091 Pictures globally and Bohemia Media in the UK summer of 2021. Showreel: https://vimeo.com/209830901 Website: https://www.hb-content.com LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/davidragsdale IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3088975/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Feature Film Pink Opaque: https://www.pinkopaquefilm.com

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An Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Sam’s work has appeared on HBO, BBC, CNN, Channel 4 News, Vice, Al Jazeera, National Geographic, and other outlets. Sam spent five years in Afghanistan, where he directed the Oscar-nominated narrative film “Buzkashi Boys.” His most recent documentary With This Breath I Fly, about two Afghan women fighting for their freedom after being imprisoned for “moral crimes,” has won over a dozen awards at major film festivals. Sam has directed episodes of the Emmy-nominated documentary series Religion of Sports and Why We Fight, and the Red Bull series All In and Life of Kai. He is currently working on Dominion, a documentary about a new generation of evangelical climate activists, and Skinhead, a narrative feature film about former neo-Nazi Frank Meeink, a true story exploring one man’s fall to power and rise into grace. He has served on juries for the IDA Documentary Awards, the Austin Film Festival, the Istanbul Film Festival, the Dumbo Film Festival, and New York Shorts International. Sam believes in the power of storytelling as an engine of empathy. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Mobolaji is a storyteller/educator with Jamaican Christian and Nigerian Muslim parents. Growing up mediating multiple cultural identities has inspired him to use cinema as a tool to illuminate the superficial conditions that divide us and accentuate the merits of shedding our prejudices. He attended both University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he graduated with honors, and the American Film Institute (AFI), where he won the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Student Filmmaker Award. His feature documentary, "Ferguson Rises," won an Audience Award at the TriBeca Film Festival and represented Independent Lens/PBS at the Television Critics Association. Noted film critic Kenneth Turan called "Ferguson Rises," "Excellent and Impressive." Mobolaji is a Gotham/HBO Fellow and repped at UTA where he is developing both narrative and documentary projects, as well as Helm Content where he is directing commercials.

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NATALIE SCHWAN is an award-winning commercial and narrative director and producer who is known for work that celebrates the vastness of the human condition, the journey of the overcomer, and the spirit of adventure. She has received multiple Telly Awards for directing and producing, produced Webby-nominated work, and recently won 2nd place in the She Directed Audience Awards Competition for her J.K. Rowling biopic short film Jo. In 2015, she launched her full service, award-winning production company Velocity Creatives, which creates commercial and narrative content that present stunning visual stories that inspire, challenge and excite. She has created work for brands including SONOS, Colgate and Goldman Sachs. Her heart is in travel and exploring, and you can often find her planning her next international adventure. She has worked on location for international jobs in Canada and China and enjoys the opportunity to work and travel. She is constantly drawn to historical narratives, and is set to direct her debut feature Rebel, an action packed film based on the true story of Deborah Sampson, the first female soldier in US history who disguised herself as a man and fought in the Revolutionary war. She is also developing a period era Ellis Island narrative series surrounding stories of immigrant children, a female-driven scripted anthology series that celebrates hidden histories of bold women, and a traveling docuseries focused on international cuisines.

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Gary Alvarez is an independent filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He graduated from Chapman University's Dodge College of Film with an M.F.A. in Film Production (Directing) in 2012. Since then he has been working professionally as a writer/producer/director. Born the youngest of three sons to working-class Mexican immigrants in Monterey Park, Gary was raised in the barrios of Bell. At 19 he enrolled in UC Berkeley’s Chicano Studies Program and studied abroad at UNAM before graduating in 2002, after which he returned to Los Angeles and taught for the subsequent 10 years. In 2004 Gary embarked on a journey that changed his career path and ultimately his life: he traveled across Mexico from Tijuana to Cozumel, penning a manuscript that was later adapted into a screenplay. Numerous screenwriting workshops and indie film sets later, he decided to transition into a career as writer/director. Gary’s passion is writing and directing narrative films as well as producing documentaries. With the series boom on Netflix and Amazon Prime, he added writing for television as a personal goal. Currently he is developing a new series, writing his next full-length screenplay and producing a feature documentary based on the Bell political corruption scandal of 2010. From 2015 to 2018, Gary taught screenwriting and film production to young filmmakers from underrepresented communities in Los Angeles and Orange Counties through the Latino Film Institute’s Youth Cinema Project. Since February 2016, Gary has been hosting an internet radio music show called Persistence of Sound every Wednesday evening from Espacio 1839 in Boyle Heights. His aim is to document the stories of local creatives through interviews via the show’s guest DJ segment Patched In.

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MICHAEL PARKS RANDA IS A FILM DIRECTOR AND DISABILITY RIGHTS ADVOCATE BASED IN LOS ANGELES. RAISED ON A FARM WHERE HIS PARENTS RAN A SCHOOL FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, RANDA GREW UP WITH A FIRM UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPORTANCE OF INCLUSION. COMBINING A DECADE OF DIRECTING MUSIC VIDEOS AND COMMERCIALS WITH HIS UNIQUE UPBRINGING, RANDA’S GROUNDBREAKING FEATURE DEBUT ‘BEST SUMMER EVER‘ ARRIVED IN 2021, FEATURING A MAJORITY CAST AND CREW OF DISABLED TALENT. THE INCLUSIVE FILM WON THE 2020 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL JURY PRIZE FOR SCREENWRITING AND BECAME A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS PICK. EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL, TED DANSON, JAMIE LEE CURTIS, MARY STEENBURGEN, PETER SARSGAARD AND AMY BRENNEMAN. RANDA RETURNED TO SXSW IN 2022 WITH THE WORLD PREMIERE OF ‘WHAT’S DONE IS DONE’, AN INCLUSIVE MUSIC VIDEO FOR DELTA SPIRIT. STARRING ZACK GOTTSAGEN (‘THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON’) AND JAMIE BREWER (‘AMERICAN HORROR STORY’), TWO ACCLAIMED ACTORS WITH DOWN SYNDROME, THE VIDEO WAS CREATED TO PROMOTE AUTHENTIC REPRESENTATION AND INCLUSION IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY. RANDA IS CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT ON THE UPCOMING BIOPIC ‘THE DIGNITY OF RESISTANCE.’

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Peter is an award winning documentary filmmaker. Over the course of his career, he has made over 8 short films which include Fish on Fire, Te’la, My kabukabu lief, Concrete under water, Golden Hill etc . His work has been featured in some film festivals around the world. His latest work Breaking was featured at the 2020 edition of the Silcon Valley Africa Film Festival (SVAFF). He has also freelanced as a DP on a number of Nigerian reality TV shows, music videos and BBC documentary series SO YOU THINK YOU CAN FARM (SYTYCF) 1n 2019. Peter has a keen interest in documenting the lives of ordinary, every-day people who are often overlooked by society but who have testimonies that inspire. He takes inspiration from other documentary makers who include John Rowe, Emmanuel Lubezeki. Peter studied Cinematography at The Pencil FIlm and Television Institute and also has a BA in Business Studies from Lagos State Polytechnic. Peter was one of 10 people representing Nigeria at Akoma Amplify Fellowship (2017) for Africa’s storytellers and content creators and was selected as one of the 16 filmmakers invited for the Global Short Documentary Forum 2018 (GSDF) by ONE WORLD MEDIA in London.

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is a director and cinematographer who hails from Brooklyn, NY and currently splits his time between Los Angeles, New York, and Paris. He graduated from NYU’s Tisch film program and is haunted by a long overdue college library fee he continually forgets to pay. His excuse for this is his ongoing engagement making commercial, narrative, and documentary films which has brought him across the globe to far-flung places such as Iraq and the Congo. Much of his work is steeped in mood and emotional resonance but he is known in some circles to have a deft hand at writing comedy. He is also 1st generation Chinese-American and rather opinionated in matters of art and food. Outside of commercial and documentary work he is developing several narrative feature scripts. His short, Black Ghost Son, was nominated for Best Narrative Short at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2020. It is currently making its rounds on the festival circuit and being developed into a feature. Clients include: American Express, National Geographic, Tastemade, Columbia Sportswear, Chevrolet, NY Times, Bacardi, Budweiser, Playboy, Grey Goose Vodka, Snapchat, Timberland, Pepsi Co, Kraft, General Electric, and The US State Dept amongst others.

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