Discover Top Documentary DPs in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA

I'm a producer, writer and director for broadcast television for major networks, for theatrically released film and for high profile web sites including series, specials and pilots. I apply timeless storytelling devices to innovative filmmaking to create unpredictable, exceptionally compelling shows. Most recently I Co- Executive produced a documentary series about fallen soldiers from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just previous I produced a Bafta winning documentary called 'Rebuilding of the World Trade Center' for Channel Four in conjunction with the artist and photographer Marcus Robinson. I have diverse industry experience in documentary and fiction spanning 17 years including supervising series, producing, story producing, script writing, narration writing, directing, shooting, casting, post-production directing/producing and editing. My work has been broadcast nationally and internationally on numerous networks including Channel 4, National Geographic, Bravo, and MTV.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Fixer
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

I'm a multi-faceted technician who is well-versed in all aspects of video production. My expertise in live streaming, camera, lighting, sound, editing, compression and visual effects has allowed me to produce over 600 videos for the Web and TV. I believe that documentaries are the last bastion of journalism. Having worked for network news at MSNBC for almost four years as an editor helped lead me to this conclusion. Documentaries can help change the world in which we live. Currently I am working on a feature documentary about a self taught artist who is entrenched in the noise scene, comics, zines, and performance art. I like to hunt for documentary stories about artists, social movements, historical events, human & animal rights, science, technology, and environmental issues. I believe a can-do attitude and team-player mentality makes a great video producer. My goal is to be the best of the best and create content that connects to audiences worldwide.

• Documentary DP
• Sound Mixer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Drone Operator
• Video Editor - News
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

I'm a producer/director/editor for TV, film and web. I have several documentaries in various stages of production. I've done work for PBS consistently for years Including: INPUT ‘Fellow’ Helsinki and Pre-selection Panelist Tokyo, representing PBS, at presentation to international media producers in Finland 2014. Judged media for Tokyo 2015 Director/Editor of 3 AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “Freedom Summer Shorts” Series Producer of “The March@50” Cross Platform series for PBS Producer of Independent Lens Doc “More Than a Month" Co-developed More Than A Mapp, mobile app using GPS as a Black History storytelling tool. Producer at Wall Street Journal TV and Dow Jones. Member of the Motion Pictures Editors Guild, I cut doc series and specials for networks including ABC, A&E, TLC, Nat Geo, and History. Producer/director of a number of corporate and narrative projects. Have shot and produced internationally for the U.N.

• Documentary DP
• Fixer
• Video Editor - News
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

My name is Sonja Stark of PilotGirl Productions. I’m a female DP, videographer, editor and streaming tech. I’ve shot productions all over the world. Since 1995, at least 70 countries (I’m also a travel writer on the side). I have decades of experience shooting and editing ENG, broadcast, documentary, web, commercial, industrial, educational and non-profit. I’ve earned several New York State Emmy Awards and a National Broadcaster Award while working for CBS-TV. Certifications include New York State Women in Business Enterprise, FAA Part 107 UAS and PADI open water SCUBA certification license. I own the Sony FX9 6K as well as the Sony FS7. I can live stream using 4 cellular bonded services with my LIVEU 200 encoder for ENG work or the AJA encoder for local streaming. I also own the Sony alpha A7sIII DSLR camera and DJI Ronin-S for b-roll requiring a gimbal. I rely on the the 18-110mm ENG lens alongside other Sony e-mounts & primes. I also own Sachtler and Miller tripods, the DJI Mavic 3 Pro, multiple GoPro kits, DJI Osmo, 9-foot Dana Dolly slider, HMI Joker 400, green screens, 1×1 LED lighting, 15″ teleprompter, wired/wireless/shotgun audio kits and more.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• Corporate Videographer
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - News
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Commercial

Joe Zeitouny is a filmmaker and documentarian interested in exploring the vast world of culture and musical expression through narrative, observational documentary, and formal documentary work. He is currently a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a path to graduate in 2024 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in film. Within the past eight years, he has worked alongside the Boston Celtics to rebirth the Waltham High School TV broadcasting program to document the high school's basketball team, made promotional films for the Waltham Parks department to help with community engagement, and was a marketing intern for Alira Health to inform the actions the company was taking to become more environmentally friendly. He has worked on numerous documentaries independently and with a team of other like-minded creatives. During the summer of 2023, he went to Dublin, Ireland, to film a feature documentary with the Cuala Foundation to capture asylum seekers' hardships and the road to getting citizenship. He had also worked on short documentary films about the Black Lives Matter movement in Waltham, MA, and Minneapolis, MN. He has been working with UW-Milwaukee's doc/UWM to produce, direct, film, and edit shorts for companies about UW-Milwaukee alumni. Some companies that he worked with are Trek, The Brady Street Improvement District, and American Scores MKE. He is also a narrative cinematographer and gaffer who worked in many corporate and student films. Currently, he is working on a short documentary about local jazz in Milwaukee.

• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Production Assistant
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Landscape Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Event Photographer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Social Media Producer
• Digital Content Creator
• Reporter / Journalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Field Producer
• Content Strategist
• Creative Director
• Gaffer
• Grip

Hi, Been working with cameras since I was a kid. Began working professionally with cameras in 2007 and have been expanding my knowledge and passion ever since. Starting in the extreme sports documentation side of things, I've slowly expanded through weddings for a short while and landed on promotional video production. Working for several years in a marketing department for a ski mountain, I learned how to work in harsh conditions and with a variety of people and goals. The majority of my experience is in one or two-man operation but have been dabbling in larger productions in more recent years. My business partner and I started Maine Mountain Media in 2014 and have been growing the company and enjoying the life of self-employment. We love to work with a variety of clients so we don't get stuck in a rut and creating everything from 15-second spots for web advertising to 2 or 3-minute longer-form documentary style videos. If you're looking for high quality product, with a flexible work-flow and timeline, we might be a perfect match.

• Corporate Videographer
• Production Assistant
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Company
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Drone Operator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Fixer
• Documentary DP

I am a 4K/HD videographer and Adobe Premiere editor located in Boston. My production package includes the Sony full-frame FX3 v2 cinema camera and the Sony A7Riv full frame mirrorless. All of my lighting is LED and includes floods, fresnels and accent instruments made by Intellytech, Lowell and Dracast. My audio package is based on Sennheiser, Tram, Azden and Zoom products. In keeping with today's production standards, I've invested in several mobile camera devices: a gimbal, an Edelkrone slider and tripod dollies. I have been working independently in video production since 1997. The kinds of productions I have worked in: corporate and business promotions, formal and candid interviews, auditions, how-to demos, trade show product demos, investor updates, patient/customer profiles, medical procedures, brand promotion; corporate meeting, conference, and seminar documentation; distance learning, employee training, podcasts; directing and editing multi-camera coverage of meetings, concerts and theater; shooting/editing artist profiles, independent narrative films and documentaries. My recent documentary work has had a focus on the issues of military veterans coping with civilian life after discharge and with advocating for policy changes toward LGBT perceptions of active duty personnel. The arts are another focus for me. In all of my work, the lighting and framing aim to capture as authentically as possible the thoughts and experience of the subject.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Corporate Videographer
• Fixer

Gordon T. Skinner is the Executive Producer of [Re]-Frame Media, LLC. His films include: Save Out Seaport; Cornelia Street Café; The Kunas of San Blas; Sitting in the Fire; Strategic Omissions; Lost Innocents. Skinner is a UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program 2017 Associate, and has held fellowships which include: Tribeca Film Institute, Film Independent, & Lincoln Center Institute. Skinner was filmmaker-in-residence with the South Street Seaport Museum/the New York Harbor School where he taught media literacy and documentary filmmaking. Some of his commissioned works: His Holiness The Dali Lama; Echoing Green’s Purpose 360º conference; Border Crossers; Dance for pole 3D @MoMA/PS1; and Occupy Wall Street: Evolution of a Revolution. Commercial credits include: Westin Hotel, Jersey City/Starwood; Latin-American Culture Week/teleSUR; Text4Baby; Olatunji: Drums of Passion/Symphony Space. Skinner commemorated JS Bach’s 330th birthday filming Bach In The Subways with a 200-person flash-mob in New York’s Grand Central Station. Skinner has produced projects for MTV, TV-Japan, NHK, ESPN and Sony Music’s Automatic Films.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Production Company
• Non-Fiction Film Director

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Jason Stefaniak received a Master of Fine Arts in Film and Television Production at New York University, where he was awarded an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scholarship and a Graduate Craft Award for Producing. Jason’s work has been recognized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and has been featured on 20/20, MSNBC, The Huffington Post, The Progressive, MoveOn.org, Upworthy, and has screened at the United Nations. His films have been viewed at festivals across the United States and nearly 1,000,000 times online. He is the producer of the award-winning short film, A Warm Spell (World Premiere, Clermont-Ferrand), and the Brooklyn Film Festival Audience Choice Award-winning feature film, But Not For Me, which co-stars Roger Guenveur Smith (Do The Right Thing). In 2015, he co-founded the collaborative production company, Impolite Company. He is currently developing his first feature as a writer/director.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Don Downey is a documentary director/writer/shooter/editor with a portfolio of public issue and narrative films. Downey's creative ability blends story with visual. He has a background in broadcast news, documentaries, and web series. He is a former NBC television affiliate reporter. He is also a fiction writer. Downey’s films elicit powerful stories from widely varying subjects. He worked on an environmental film on the Hopi reservation, numerous climate change films, as well as documentaries on sustainable cities with the Rockefeller Foundation. He has a resume of human-interest and promotional films ranging from health care, to contemporary art profiles, to corporate image. His film, Time in the Barrel: Death & Life in Vietnam looks at the disturbing impacts of war, and won the Portland Film Festival. Downey’s strengths are skilled interviewing, an informal yet efficient production style, imaginative writing and sharp editing.

• Video Editor - News
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Matteo was born in Trento, Italy and grew up in Conegliano, a little town outside Venice. From a very young age, he has been fascinated by the world of movies and journalism. He started pursuing his passion for print journalism by writing film reviews for several websites in Italy. Graduating with a degree in Communication Sciences from the University of “Roma Tre”, his final thesis focused on the history of American sitcoms and their relationship with the ancient Greek theater. In 2011, he moved to New York City to work at the subsidiary of the RAI (Italian National Television) and soon after decided it was time to pursue a film career. Matteo was accepted into an intensive documentary film program at the New York Film Academy, from where he graduated in 2012. He is currently living in New York City and working on multiple projects and TV shows, including two new documentaries. He also produces for the Italian Radio News.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Hi. I am an Emmy Award-winning writer/producer/director with over fifteen years' experience. I was a senior producer at ABC News, where I oversaw the network's slate of original digital video programming, where I was responsible for the content and creative direction of these series, as well as the development of new series. I also spent eleven years with Comedy Central, heading up the network's award-winning digital video initiatives and overseeing a team of writers, producers and editors. I've also produced mobile live-streaming video for the New York Post and Page Six. Additionally, and independently, I produced "Containment: Life After Three Mile Island," an hour-long documentary on the 1979 nuclear accident, and a mockumentary starring Ed Helms, "Zombie-American." I'm interested in a broad range of topics, including (but not limited to) history, travel, the environment, warfare, baseball, comedy, books and literature, and culture.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - News
• Field Producer
• Fixer
• TV News Producer
• Production Company
• Reporter / Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant

Evan Kay is a Director of Photography, Producer, and Editor dedicated to crafting authentic and compelling stories around the globe on people and places that inspire and influence us as humans. Evan loves working collaboratively and thinking outside the box when developing new projects and stories for both agencies and clients alike. With over 20 years of production experience and 10 years working in-house as a Creative Director, Evan has the tools and skills to produce and help a client deliver a successful campaign. Specializing in documentary, travel and outdoor action/lifestyle projects, Evan's work has been on the cover of Outside Magazine, featured in ESPN, PBS, Scholastic, Kendal Mountain Film Festival, MADE HERE, and more. Evan has an active carnet and has filmed international projects in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Argentina, Portugal, France and Uruguay. ​ Evan is fully insured and a licensed FAA Part 107 commercial drone operator.

• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Portrait Photographer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Fashion Photographer
• Corporate Videographer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Creative Director
• Full-Service Live Production
• Digital Content Creator
• Production Company
• Social Media Producer
• Drone Operator
• Copywriter

Documentary filmmaker and doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Anthropology faculty at Bates College in Maine and working on a documentary film about storytelling and crisis in Iceland. Located in Portland, ME and occasionally lives in Reykjavík area of Iceland. Previously worked on research, digital media, exhibit and video projects for the Discovery Channel, The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, The Film/Video Dept. of The Walker Art Center, the Eric Carle Museum for Picture Book Art, Powell’s Books (Portland, OR), and most recently Curiosity Retreats, LLC. Specializes in interview-based documentary video productions. Skilled in nose-to-tail video production and post-production. Available for projects all over Midwest and Iceland. Will travel for the right project.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Fixer
• Video Editor - News
• Sound Mixer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Digital Bodega (DB) is a full-service boutique production company based in the South Bronx Post House that serves global brands and agencies, including Sony Pictures Entertainment, Nike, Jordan, Wieden+Kennedy, Time Warner, JPMorgan Chase and Atlantic Records with custom story-driven media solutions, strategic trends insight, and outstanding original content. DB is powered by top Ghetto Film School program graduates who apply their creative and technical skills to meet the needs of evolving needs of commercial clients. 100% of all DB profits go directly to support GFS’ free creative education programs, providing hundreds of young emerging filmmakers of color with unlimited access to industry-grade equipment, training, technology and resources. And what kind of stories can we tell? Corporate, Branded, Promos, Short Documentaries, Music Videos, Web content – you name it, we serve it. Take a look of some of our work below, and let us tell your story.

• Commercial DP
• Fixer
• Documentary DP
• Sound Mixer
• Video Editor - News
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

My name is Cal Hopwood, I am a freelance filmmaker with a focus in documentaries. I graduated in 2011 with a degree in filmmaking and am currently back at Champlain College in Burlington, VT getting my MFA in Emergent Media. I have produced multiple short narrative films, music videos and commercial projects. Currently I am working on a long term project called "The Pursuit: A Global Quest for Happiness", it is a documentary focusing on the key basics that allows for individuals to be happy and follows myself traveling to different parts of the world and spotlighting individuals helping their local communities in one of the 3 areas, healthcare, education and sustainability. I own my own professional camera equipment including a RED Scarlet and Canon 5D. My business partner, Jon Mendel, is a production sound recorder and together we co-founded and make up Dilation Films, a small video production.

• Documentary DP
• Sound Mixer

Brooke Saias (she/her) is an independent filmmaker, producer, and director based in New England. She collaborates with various organizations, institutions, production companies, and artists. She is also an Associate Producer with Arch+Bow Films supporting independent films with bold artistic vision. Recent credits include the feature documentary RICHLAND (Tribeca, 2023). In her independent film practice she explores issues of memory, identity, and diaspora. Her documentary short, Songs of the Sephardim in Izmir about the preservation of the Ladino language, premiered at the Boston Jewish Film Festival in November 2022 and is currently screening in festivals. She was recently awarded a 2023 Arts & Culture Community Impact Grant for her film in development exploring more of the Sephardic Jewish experience. She previously produced a collection of international documentary films for Compass Light Productions and worked as an award-winning video journalist for Education Week. Brooke is dedicated to making the documentary space more equitable and accessible. She was part of a team that helped establish The Video Consortium's first mentorship program sponsored by Sony. She has a graduate certificate in Documentary Studies from The Salt Institute and received a B.A. in Gender & Women’s Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Portrait Photographer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Field Producer
• Documentary DP
• Production Company
• Creative Director

I am a Freelance Creative Director based in the New York area. I started my career in 2008 with a main focus in producing music videos and have had the chance to work with many different artists on every level. The list includes content with Chris Brown, Lougotcash, Yvng Swag, Nicki Minaj, Kaycyy, Fivio Foreign, Set Da Trend, Trav, Sean Kingston, Waka Flocka, Meek Mill, Page, Maino, Juelz Santana, Jim Jones, Hell Rell, Asher Roth, Frenchie, Boogz Boogetz, Prodigy, Charlie Clips, Bigg K, Chinx Drugz, Lloyd Banks, Vado, Chase Fetti, G4 Boyz, YG and many more. Many of my videos have appeared on Worldstar along with MTV placement and my photos have been published in national magazines such as XXL Magazine. The ability to have had a chance to work with a wide range of artists has kept me inspired and motivated to keep perfecting my craft with each video I make. I started working in Broadcast in 2015 as a Creative Producer for Jus Broadcasting. My main focus at the company to begin was to creative new TV Shows aimed at the 14 to 40 year old demographic in America. I have created and produced several shows for their channel Jus 24x7 including The Vibe, Honestly, Bandstand, A Day in Town and more. I became the Associate Creative & Technical Director at the end of 2016. I oversee the training and daily workflow for all pre & post production staff out of the NY Headquarters. This includes live shows, promos, pre-recorded shows, commercials, social media and more.

• Commercial DP
• Senior Editor
• Digital Content Creator
• Social Media Producer
• Podcast Producer
• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Creative Director
• Graphic Designer
• Event Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Gaffer
• Grip
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Post-Production Manager
• Product Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Executive Producer
• Motion Graphics Designer

I’m an OJA award nominated filmmaker and multimedia journalist, based in Manhattan. After changing careers from immunology to journalism and filmmaking I have completed a virtual reality film for PBS Frontline, individually created a short documentary set in Ukraine, and animated and edited for the likes of Vice News Tonight. I believe that blurring the edges of your profession in this new world of journalism and filmmaking is the true future of generating and consuming thoughtful and interesting content. This is why I strive to achieve perfection in many innovative and emergent fields of journalism. I also endeavor to perform as a complete package; being proficient in everything from producing and shooting to editing, animation and design is something I take very seriously. I believe that doing so many different things that you no longer know what to call yourself is a good thing. I value creativity, beauty, simplicity, accuracy, care, and authenticity and I wish to educate and engage us to issues that otherwise would not have been considered in an artfully simplistic way. I primarily consider myself a cinematographer and producer, but can also serve as a video editor, animator, researcher, sound engineer, and composer.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• TV News Producer
• Drone Operator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

President, Chip Taylor Communications, LLC; EP - Australia's Natural Wonders - HD Travel/Nature Show; EP - The Appraisers - HD auto show; Co-Pro - Extreme Auto Hunters; American Car Prospector - HD auto shows; EP of numerous documentaries, including: Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Legacy; The Defiant: Holocaust Memoirs of Shalom Yaron; Copyright Compliance Series; Artists of America: A Wyeth Hurd Original: Peter de La Fuente; Pierre H. Matisse 1: Biography; Pierre H. Matisse 2: Workshop; Edna Hibel 1: Biography; Edna Hibel 2: Portrait; Biographies: Myke Morton; Walter Owen; Michael Earney; Safety for Children Series; Missions of California Series; California Indians; Christmas Stories for Children; Short Stories for Children; Storytellers: Finley Stewart; Ruth Stotter; Angela Lloyd; Authors' Stories: Angela Shelf Medearis; Donna Guthrie; Mary Calhoun; Intro to Native Americans; Actor to Actor: Want to be a Star?; Muir Woods; Washington Irving; Sleepy Hollow Memorial; Sir Edmund Hillary; Bridges of Madison Co and Winterset; Co-Pro - Exploring the World Series; Co-Pro - Diamonds in the Rough: Legacy of Japanese-American Baseball; Co-Pro - Inside Paris; Co-Pro - Biography: Joe Franklin; EP - A Salute to the 60th Seabees; EP - The Texas Series.

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• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Translator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Company