Discover Top Freelancers in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Freelance journalist, fixer, stringer, B-roll, video editing and pre-post productions.

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• Translator

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I am a broadcast journalist based in Islamabad, Pakistan

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International affairs specialist, author and Fulbright Scholar of international security at the University of Maryland.

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I am a Lahore based crime reporter/ investigative documentary producer with more than 30 years of experience

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I am a graduate of International Relations. I closely follow regional and global political transformations and offer my insights.

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Aoun Sahi is an Islamabad-based journalist, researcher and media trainer. A former Daniel Pearl/AFPP fellow, he shared in The LA Times’ 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. He tweets @AounSahi

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Correspondent of TRT Arabic in Pakistan since August, 2013 till now.

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• Production Assistant

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Freelance print and multimedia journalist | Photographer

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I am an independent writer and author covering global affairs.

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Ahmad Waleed is a Lahore-based broadcast journalist having vast experience in print and electronic media. He is working with 24 News as Controller News looking after the news pouring in from different parts of the Punjab province besides analyzing political and social issues on TV as an expert. He has Bachelor’s Degree majored in Journalism, Master’s degree in French Language and Literature and MA in Political Science majored in International Relations, International Law and International Orgnaization. He began his career as a sub-editor at The Nation in 1993 and later he joined The News as a reporter. Mr Waleed has worked with all the major news channels of Pakistan including Geo News, Aaj TV, DawnNews, Dunya TV and Samaa TV. Mr Waleed has travelled to several countries including U.K., U.S., Middle Eastern countries besides having worked with Bahrain Tribune for a brief period. He went to the US on IVLP broadcast journalism program in 2005 and he also covered the US elections in 2016 for Samaa TV from Washington DC. He has attended ICFJ workshops on Breaking News, Code of Ethics, Business News, Reporting in Conflict Zones, etc. His interests range from politics to social sector.

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Anam Abbas grew up in Pakistan and studied Cinema at the University of Toronto and Documentary Production at Sheridan College, Canada. She is a documentary Director, Cinematographer and Photographer, And has worked In Canada and across Pakistan. She is deeply interested in creating platforms for women's voices and exploring life at the peripheries in Pakistan. Her Documentary short "Lucky Irani Circus" about the children who work in Pakistan's longest running circus group screened at Delhi International Film Festival , Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival and Seattle South Asian Film festival in 2015. The short documentary "Reclaiming Pakistan", on which Anam was a cinematographer also toured festivals across the USA and won the SIMA 2016 Jury Prize for IMPACT in the IMPACT VIDEO Category. Another short documentary, "The Streets are ours: Two Lives cross in Karachi" won the Audience choice award for best documentary short, Nashville Film Festival, 2017 Anam worked as Production Manager on a major action feature film in Pakistan titled "Revenge of the Worthless" in 2014. She was the Festival Director for the FACE Film Festival in Islamabad for 2016. She was the associate festival director for the I AM Karachi Film Festival 2017 with Mateela Films. She is Producer and Director of feminist webseries based in Pakistan called "Ladies Only". Her band "Garam Anday"'s first single has been nominated as the top 20 songs of 2018 by Tribune Edit. "Showgirls of Pakistan", winner of the Corus -HotDocs Best Canadian Pitch Award at the 2016 Hotdocs Forum, and winner of the Chicago Media project's pitching event in Nov 2017, is scheduled to release in 2020, and will be her first feature documentary as Producer and Cinematographer. Anam participated in Locarno Film Festival's Open Doors Hub with a fiction feature project in Aug 2017. She was also selected to participate in the 2018 Berlinale Talents program. Anam is also one of the founding members and General Secretary of the Documentary Association of Pakistan. https://sites.google.com/view/documentarypakistan Anam has worked for several video projects in the development sector in Pakistan through her company Other Memory Media but also as a consultant for White Rice Communications, Collective Circle and more recently Karachi/London based Matteela Films, for which she produced video and social media content for FAFEN and also directed a ground-breaking nature documentary- an extensive year long project about the Mangrove forests in Pakistan with The Dawood Foundation (TDF). Past clients include IFC (2014-2016), Seeds for Peace, Eurovision, Global Teacher Prize and NETFLIX U.S.A.

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• Non-Fiction Film Director
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Jawad Sharif is an award-winning filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer, who has come into prominence for exploring the often-ignored social subjects. His work focuses on the interface between the dominant culture and the real impact on people, society and the environment. Jawad is a Ted Fellow and an alumnus of the the UCLA, Swedish Institute and Institut Fur Auslandsbeziehunge, Germany. He is the Festival Director of Asia Peace Film Festival and jury member of the Jaipur Library Academy Awards. Jawad is also a founding member of Climate Kahani & Cinema For Change.    He has worked on a number of socially and culturally sensitive film projects involving the themes of human rights and social injustice besides arts and culture. His feature films include Indus Blues, The Losing Side, K-2 and the Invisible Footmen, The Color of Smog, Natari, and Beyond the Heights. His recent film “The Losing Side” has won the best “Human Rights Award” at the Cannes World Film festival. “Indus Blues” has won the Grand Jury Prize at GIFF and has been nominated in several other international film festivals including CPH-DOX, Copenhagen. His films have been screened in over a hundred festivals worldwide and won awards. His first feature film, “Indus Blues” is about the fading folk instruments from various indigenous cultures in Pakistan, which has won the Grand Jury Prize at Guam International Film Festival and has been nominated in several other prestigious international film festivals. The film created waves in both local and international media including BBC, DW, and VOA upon the release of its trailer and initiated the much needed debate about the radicalization of the society in Pakistan. He has also won several awards as the cinematographer and editor of “K2 & the Invisible Footmen,” which has screened in film festivals around the world.

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Tazeen Bari is a documentary director, producer and cinematographer based in Islamabad, Pakistan. She is the owner of KINO Films, an Islamabad based documentary production company and has been making documentaries independently, for broadcast, various production companies and for the development sector in Pakistan for over 10 years. She has an educational background in politics and documentary filmmaking and has also taught documentary production at a graduate level.  Her documentary “Letters From Death Row” was acquired by Al Jazeera for Witness. “Vote for X” that follows the election journey of a transgender candidate in the 2018 general election screened widely at queer film festivals across the globe. Her documentary “Qandeel" on social media star Qandeel Baloch was released by Guardian documentaries. It has nearly two million views and won the Leslie J Sacks Grand Prize Award. In 2016 Tazeen was selected to attend a workshop in Cuba mentored by legendary Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Tazeen has worked as a producer for two time academy award winning director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and also produced an episode for the Emmy Nominated Vice series WOMAN with Gloria Steinem.  Tazeen is the co-founder of the Documentary Association of Pakistan and is also currently developing her first fiction feature.

• Documentary DP
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Non-Fiction Film Director

I am a masters degree holder of Mass Communication and started my career by working as a Media Coordinator in a local NGO of Islamabad where I got an experience of developing creative pieces like story boards, scripts and slogans / catchy lines on educational projects. However, afterwards the areas of photojournalism and documentaries attracted me to learn enthusiastically about these fields. Currently, I have several years’ experience of working and assisting as freelance Photographer, Producer and Documentary film maker in Islamabad, one of the most politically and socially volatile cities of Pakistan. I have also contacts with different TV channels , newspapers , international / local bodies and worked with production companies for event coverage (both photography and video coverage), management , hosting and documentaries. Currently working on a short film with the theme of “teacher – child relationships and behaviors in schools” which will be completed shortly.

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Saiyna Bashir is a Pakistani photojournalist currently based in Islamabad. She works on international assignments for the New York Times, Thomas Reuters, The Telegraph, the Huffington Post, the Associated Press, NPR, Al-Jazeera English and others. She also serves as a consultant to Unicef. She has extensive training and workshop experience and is available for news, feature and portrait assignments in Pakistan and South Asia. Contact Saiyna at: x +92 300 2357163 Instagram/saiynabashirphoto Columbia College Chicago Masters of Arts Journalism (2015) BNU Lahore Pakistan Bachelor of Arts Journalism (2013) Language Fluency English and Urdu Workshops and Conferences TEDx Speaker Pakistan 2018 Women Photograph Mentorship 2018-2019 (For Mid-Career Photojournalists) Advanced Security Training (English) United Nations Department of Safety and Security 2018 Basic Security Training (English) United Nations Department of Safety and Security 2018 Safety Surgeries Workshop by Rory Peck Trust 2018 The Eddie Adams Workshop 2016 The New York Times Student Journalism Institute 2015 Visual Storytelling with VII Photo Agency 2015 Midwest Photo Summit 2015 Online News Association Conference 2014 Memberships National Press Photographers Association (USA) Women Photograph (USA) Freelance Contract Thomson Reuters The New York Times Unicef (Consultant Photographer) The Telegraph Al Jazeera English

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I am indie film maker & freelance video journalist based in Pakistan. I believe in serving humanity by highlighting its problems and related issues for solution and feel rewarded when any of my documentary or report reasons to help humanity. Thats why Journalism and documentary / film-making are not just my profession but its my passion. I produce regional, national, and international projects from last 6 years, my specialism is more focus on high quality for corporations and non-profits as professional. I am specialized in making documentaries, short & feature films / reports based on social issues, current affairs and human sciences. I have been working for national and international electronic media as a freelance correspondent for Europe, online TV channel (Netherlands), LIDF (UK), US-AID, BBC world services, Matteela films & Kalam TV (Dubai) Setup equipped with complete facilities.

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• Creative Director
• Video Editor - News
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• TV News Producer
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• Motion Graphics Designer
• Sound Mixer
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• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant