Discover Top Freelancers in Minnesota, USA

Rachel Lauren Mueller is a documentary director, journalist and cinematographer from the Colorado mountains whose stories focus on themes of power, identity and rural life. With her background in investigative journalism and anthropology, she creates films that interrogate power structures while embracing expansive imagination. Rachel’s work has been featured in Al Jazeera Arabic, The New York Times, PBS, Yale Climate Connections and Berkeleyside and her films have been supported by the International Documentary Association, Berkeley FILM Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Council for the Arts. Most recently, her film 8 DAYS AT WARE, supported by the IF/Then Shorts Distribution fellowship, was awarded the Reva and David Logan Prize for Investigative Reporting and Best Short Documentary at the Wyoming International Film Festival. She has been a film fellow at UnionDocs, GroundTruth Films and the Overseas Press Club and has a master’s in documentary from the UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Non-Fiction Film Director

Georgia Fort is a two time Emmy nominated Media Producer and Television Correspondent. Her reporting has been published on CNN, ABC, NBC, Fox and CBS affiliates. Her mission as a storyteller is to amplify truth, inspire, inform and agitate change. Most recently she produced a short documentary “George Floyd: It Happened Here”, which amplifies the voices of individuals who are from the neighborhood where George Floyd was killed. Prior to that Fort, co-directed and edited the award winning documentary “Rondo: Beyond the Pavement” which is no available on Amazon Prime. Outside of media, she’s in the process of changing maternity leave laws in Minnesota after losing her job as an anchor because she wasn’t eligible for FMLA. A true advocate for change, the Minnesota native has over a decade of broadcast experience that spans from public radio government television to national commercial television broadcasting. As a journalist she publicly explored her passion for philanthropy and community involvement by a giving a visual platform to the stories and individuals that continuously shape her community. Her coverage of a controversial officer involved shooting was nominated for an Emmy and received honorable mention by the Southeast Chapter of the National Academy of Television. Before her promotion as an anchor, Georgia was the court and crime reporter for the ABC and Fox affiliates in Columbus, GA where she covered gruesome murder trials and uncovered a series of investigative pieces. Georgia graduated from the University of St. Thomas where she advocated for student parents and diversity inclusion. She has three daughters and is married to boxing gym owner and professional boxer, Cerresso Fort. In 2007, after her oldest daughter passed away, she became an Ambassador for Faith’s Lodge, a non-profit that provides wellness retreats for parents who have lost a child. Internally, her resilience is the catalyst that allows her to continuously reshape her own narrative as she outwardly advocates to change the narrative for the black community.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Corporate Videographer
• Drone Operator
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• TV News Producer
• Executive Producer
• Fixer

Brian Few Jr. is a 13-year self-taught professional cinematographer and editor, known for his remarkable storytelling through the lens. With an impressive portfolio, Brian has successfully filmed 17 music videos, 13 weddings, 8 short films, and even a feature film in 2022. As a skilled photographer, he has captured the energy and intensity of two consecutive WNBA playoffs and championships in 2016 & 2017 and a memorable 2018 WNBA All-Star game. In 2023, Brian achieved the prestigious honor of being a Upper Midwest Regional Emmy Recipient and was a part of the 2023 Midwest Regional Emmy Award-winning independent television news program called "Here’s The Truth with Georgia Fort." Brian's creative talents have garnered recognition on various platforms. His 2017 debut short film, "Angels Walk," earned a coveted spot in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, captivating audiences at numerous screenings in Minneapolis and even reaching an international audience in Mexico.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Commercial DP
• Colorist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Audio Storyteller
• Senior Editor

Zach Roy is a multi-time Emmy award-winning cinematographer and has been awarded both nationally and internationally for his storytelling capabilities. Having co-founded multiple production companies with focus in fields independent of each other (documentary, athletics, corporate, and music entertainment), Zach has been able to garner a unique and versatile skillset which enables him to perform in many environments. Over the years, Zach has been able to work with a large swath of different clientele both large and small. He has helped with the launch, and continual branding of many businesses and brands. Some of his more notable clients have been Lululemon, NCAA Final Four, Mizuno, Shriners Children’s Hospitals, Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl, and others. Zach has a deep passion for meaningful media. In a world filled with chaos, Zach believes that the power of storytelling can bring meaning and understanding to it all.

• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Production Company
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Post-Production Manager

Lindsey Seavert is an Emmy, Edward R. Murrow, and Alfred I. duPont award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker fueled by a calling to bring untold stories to light. ​The legacy of teaching in her family inspires Lindsey to use stories as a vehicle to empower, educate, create empathy and spark systemic change. Her parents were Minnesota public school teachers who gave her the gift of curiosity, so with a book and pencil often in hand, she began writing as a young child, and hasn't stopped since. ​She worked as a reporter at five news stations stretching from Northern Minnesota, Nevada, and Ohio before coming home to the Twin Cities and working as a reporter at WCCO-TV and KARE-11 TV. In 2020, Lindsey moved to a freelance journalist and filmmaking role after releasing her first award-winning documentary, Love Them First. ​The feature-length documentary, created at KARE 11, features a courageous Minneapolis principal fighting to get her students off the list of ‘failing’ schools while grappling with Minnesota’s vast achievement gap between Black and White students. ​The film, which received one of journalism’s highest honors with the 2020 Alfred I. duPont award, has been applied into collegiate educational curriculum, featured at national education conferences and utilized at countless education staff development workshops. The impact is only beginning, and Lindsey hopes to continue this advocacy, raising consciousness about the intersection of race and education, as she explores future film projects. Her work often focuses on women, families and children in underrepresented communities. Much of her inspiration comes from her late father, who spent his career advocating for teachers. ​Lindsey is dedicated to mentoring young journalists and volunteering in the Twin Cities community. ​Her hobbies include running, fitness and creative writing. The greatest chapters of her own story feature her family, her husband Ian, her son Stellan and daughter, Phoebe. They live in southwest Minneapolis.

• Documentary DP
• TV News Producer
• Field Producer
• Podcast Producer
• Reporter / Journalist

Fun. Collaborative. Creative. Business guy. I am an Independent Producer, Director, Storyteller, Executive Producer, Editor, DP and Businessman. I’m proud of the trust amazing artists have shared with me. Prince, U2, RunDMC, Wyclef Jean, Janet Jackson, just to name drop a few. They allow me to tell stories that are important to them. Companies I respect do the same thing. NBC, MTV, The Beijing Opera Company and more, come to me to add depth, beauty and immediacy to their projects. I know the power of great storytelling. My passion for production has taken me around the world – and as an entrepreneur, I continue to look for, develop and collaborate with others to bring fun, meaningful projects to life. These are a few of the highlights: - Director for 2 national Emmy-winning PBS specials with financial guru Suze Orman. - Director-Producer-Editor on legendary music producers Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis’s PBS documentary pilot profiling their work with artists Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men, and others. - Director-Producer of multi-cam projects with Garrison Keillor, Bobby McFerrin and David Hyde Pierce, along with 3 major productions for MN Opera, including their Pulitzer prize-winning “Silent Night.” - Creative Consultant-Developer with Bizarre Foods’ Andrew Zimmern, developing branded content and broadcast specials. - Director-Producer-Editor for a crazy live concert in Haiti, with the Fugees, before a crowd of nearly 65 thousand! A huge success – in spite of major remote challenges. - Director-Producer in South Africa for MTV’s “Advance Warning” (their American Idol like TV series). - Director-Collaborator with the BLACK Agency - producing an emotional story for St. Jude Children’s Hospital, featuring Drew Barrymore. - Owner-Creative Force behind Moving Pictures, Inc.. A full-service storytelling machine, built from years of moving forward and making opportunities where non seemed to exist before. Merged with Academy award-winning producer Bill Pohlad (River Road Entertainment) developing various projects. - Writer-Director-Producer-Host I received national and international attention from global film festivals with my feature documentary called “I Do?”. After opening in Montreal & Singapore, it won Best Documentary at TCFF - in MN. www.idodocumentary.com - Author-Photographer of an inspirational photography book called “Up North”, from Tristan Publishing.

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Fixer
• Production Assistant

I am a visual storyteller, writer and life-long learner with a desire to connect and listen. I’m interested in using my camera as a tool to reveal the core of our humanity and how light seems to have the ability to soften us. My vision aims to explore our relationship to ourselves, the natural world, the paradoxes of power and vulnerability, and the depth of the human experience. I want to to make compelling images to evoke empathy in hopes of broadening our capacity for compassion. I focus on both daily community journalism and long-term projects. I am available for collaborations, editorial and commercial assignments. Wolfe grew up in Owatonna, Minn. She earned a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has since worked as a photojournalist in Nebraska, California and Oregon. She was recognized by the Hearst Journalism awards program for multimedia and was a selected fellow of the College of Journalism and Mass Communication's Global Eyewitness program, a fellowship that allows photojournalism students to report internationally, to Ethiopia, Dominican Republic, Indonesia and Ecuador.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Reporter / Journalist
• Event Photographer
• Copywriter
• Portrait Photographer

Allison Herrera is a maker, a lover of Mexican breakfasts, a worrier and a mom. She is the former editor of the Twin Cities Daily Planet, an award winning online publication, producer for Ampers and reporter for KFAI radio in Minneapolis. She’s an independent radio and video producer for various public radio and television stations throughout Minnesota. She recently worked with KBFT radio on the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa reservation in northern Minnesota to produce a series of shows about art, culture, history and the environment. She’s currently wrapping up a reporting project about Native American communities in Oklahoma called Invisible Nations. She’s also completing a documentary about Ojibwe painter Jim Denomie. She lives in Minneapolis with her daughter Anna.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant

Hey, I’m Slade, and I love to tell stories! Whether it’s photography or video, I work with organizations to get their message out into the world. Storytelling is my job, but telling stories that make the world a better place, now that’s my passion! Based in the Twin Cities, I regularly shoot with PBS for short and long-from documentaries and am currently a National Geographic Explorer. I have partnered with organizations doing work from the Midwest to Central America to Africa to the Middle East. RED Dragon-X 6K Camera Package · Canon 5D · Sigma Cine FF Primes · Canon L Glass · Lighting Kit · Audio Kit

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Commercial DP
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Creative Director
• Senior Editor

Founded in 2005, Encore Public Relations is an integrated consulting agency that customizes strategies and purpose driven stories in communication, marketing, public relations and advertising. We've served clients all over the world ranging from every day heroes to global thought leaders, organizations–big and small, start-ups, non-profits, and Fortune 100 companies. We have significant experience leading social change and philanthropic communication strategies and tactics for more than $100M in capital campaigns, annual appeals, fund the need and cause initiatives. Our passion is working with brands that use their marketing and advertising dollars as forces for good in the world.

• Creative Director
• Production Company
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Documentary DP
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Corporate Videographer
• Content Strategist
• Executive Producer
• Social Media Producer

Documentary Filmography 1) The Business - 2012 2) Cries and Whispers - 2012 (Alpavirama South East Asia Short and Documentary Film Festival 2014- India) 3) The Old Photographer - 2012 (South Asia Film Festival-2013 [Nepal], ChopShots Film Festival - 2013 [Indonesia], Alpavirama South East Asia Short and Documentary Film Festival 2014 [India], Luang Prabang Film Festival- 2014 [Laos]. 4) A Simple Wish - 2013 (Human Rights and Human Dignity International Film Festival-2013 [Myanmar], Cultural Unplugged Film Festival- 2014 ) 5) Sound of Silence - 2014 (Human Rights and Human Dignity International Film Festival -2014 [Myanmar] )

• Documentary DP
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

I'm a video editor, motion designer, photographer, camera operator, screenwriter, and digital content producer for social and broadcast. Earned the nickname “Killer” for consistently killing projects, not for killing people... Lead in-house video production at Activision Minneapolis for nearly 8 years. Produced consumer facing and internal videos, trailers, game-play capture and live camera shoots. Content creator for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Trusted with Activision’s best brands and franchises completing over two hundred projects in 2015 alone. I also produce wedding, Kickstarter, and corporate videos and shoot studio, family, and corporate photos.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

I'm Allison Osberg, a multimedia journalist located in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. I started off as a photographer, progressed into video and now dabble in radio as well. I speak fluent French and basic Mandarin and have worked as an artist and journalist in both France and China. I am particularly interested in stories about the environment, globalization and art. I think the purpose of good journalism is to make foreign subjects and places accessible, personal, and meaningful no matter the listener. Video is so integral to the journalistic process because it's capable of communicating the complex, saying 1000 words per picture, 24 times a second.

• Documentary DP

I like this business. There’s always something new, and I never get tired of the work. I’m based in St. Paul, MN, but my work has taken me all over. For a few years, I kept busy shooting MonsterQuest, for the History Channel. I've also been involved in indie documentaries, including two that I've produced myself. From exotic jobs, like chasing a baboon through the woods or flying alongside a Skycrane, to more typical ones, like interviews and instructional videos, it’s always interesting. I come prepared, I work hard, and I keep smiling.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Production Company
• Video Editor - Commercial

I'm a filmmaker (two narrative features + shorts) and producer in Minneapolis and continue to create commercial spots (20+/year) for clients large and small. Always happy to be on set and can communicate plainly or technically. Have worked on award-winning Kartemquin film TYPEFACE and feature docs THE G WORD, BEING BEBE, WET HOUSE and TIME FOR ILHAN. I've also filmed for Frontline, Tidal.com, Levi's, Medtronic, PBS NewsHour, Lowe's, Final Four, Best Buy, and many others over the years. Currently serving on the board of directors for FilmNorth.

• Commercial DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Production Company
• Fixer

Brennan Vance is a director and cinematographer whose work has been featured on HBO, PBS, NBC, and Starz and at such film festivals as SXSW, Tribeca, Slamdance, and Full Frame. Vance has worked commercially with a wide range of brands such as Balenciaga, Under Armour, Organic Valley, and Target. His upcoming cinematography projects include Cecilia Aldarondo’s You Were My First Boyfriend (premiering on HBO in 2023) and Norah Shapiro’s Magic & Monsters. His feature-length directorial debut, The Missing Sun, was released in 2018 and earned him a McKinght Media Fellowship.

• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary

I am a Photographer/Videographer/Editor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. My niche is telling emotional stories that engage audiences. I was an editorial art director and photo editor for almost a decade, but photography has been my lifelong passion. Adding video/audio to my toolkit has opened up a new world of storytelling possibilities. I travel light, and am able to produce compelling content as a one-woman show.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Jesse Roesler is an Emmy and James Beard award-winning director and cinematographer whose work has moved millions via SXSW, The Travel Channel and The New York Times. His commissioned video work for clients like Nature Valley, The National Parks Foundation and Morgan Stanley has rallied target audiences around a particular cause or initiative, while his video journalism work for Time Magazine and NowThis has helped earn these stories earn millions of views online.

• Documentary DP
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Commercial DP
• Production Company
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Non-Fiction Film Director

Recently graduated from Bethel University with Video Production. Focused on core values, going beyond, and reaching deeper in the world of videography. Known for straying off of the path to relate to the stories of each and every individual. I explore many types of videography and enjoy branding, weddings, corporate events, interviews, and real estate. Produced video for FedEx 2016 Small Business Grant Winner

• News Shooter / Video Journalist

After a decade of traveling the world filming action sports content, two best friends settled in Minneapolis and formed a video production company. We specialize in cinematic wedding videography, corporate training, live events, and lifestyle advertisements. We’ve grown fast, won many awards, and our passion quickly turned into a full-time career in the film industry. Based in Minneapolis, MN, but love to travel.

• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Fixer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary