Discover Top Freelancers in Newport News, Virginia, USA

Kex is a writer, director, and producer for multiscreen platforms. She attended American University’s film school, earning a B.A. in Film & Media Arts. Notable talents such as Denzel Washington, Mandy Moore, Don Cheadle, Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga and more have been featured in her work. She has produced with networks such as NBC4, BBC Studios, Comcast, and The CW. In 2019, Rhodes received a Capital Emmy nomination for her "BTheOne" PSA campaign on suicide/substance abuse prevention. Her directorial work features award-winning shorts like the comedy “Donut Give Up!”, dramas “Xosphere” and “Tunnel Vision”, documentary “Station 8” and the anticipated period-piece “Desolate Dreams”. As the Founder of Kex Studios, she focuses on producing impactful narratives. Recognized as DC Filmmaker of the Month in September 2023 and a Cinequest Screenwriting Competition semi-finalist, Rhodes has 2 Tellys and a Davey Award, completed Sundance Collab’s Directing Actors Course and is in Producers Guild.

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• Line Producer / On-Location
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• Graphic Designer

Hebah Abdalla is an independent Emmy award-winning producer with more than 20 years experience in broadcast news, working in an array of television markets – from local to international. She also serves as the Washington Program Director for the Scripps School of Communications at Ohio University. As a media professional, she was an integral player in the launch of a state-wide news channel in Ohio and two news channels for a global broadcast network. She helped to launch one of the first digitally integrated television programs, The Stream, recognized globally for innovation and in the U.S. cable television industry for its reporting on public affairs. Her career began at CNN in Atlanta, where she became an assignment editor for the award-winning show World Report. Hebah later returned to her hometown of Columbus, Ohio, managing daily and breaking news coverage as an assignment editor for CBS affiliate WBNS and helping to launch its statewide news channel, the Ohio News Network.

• TV News Producer
• Series Producer / Show Runner

Andrea Ellen Reed is a multimedia artist that specializes in still photography, film directing, and soundscapes. Her work seeks to advance the multifaceted narratives that make the vibrant and resilient communities thrive. Andrea began shooting reportage during her undergraduate studies at Howard University. She continued her artistic studies at the Academy of Art University where she received her MFA in Photography. Her unique vision for combining photographic stills and soundscapes in projects like The Streets Are Talkin’ blend a traditional medium with first person narratives that results in poignant and reflective exploration of the fight for racial equity. Andrea’s soulful storytelling is even more apparent in her film work as she delicately crafts narratives of which her subjects are the narrator. Her work as a photographic artist has championed the voices of BIPOC people in publications and organizations like the New York Times, Vanity Fair, the Star Tribune, ESPN, the NCAA, The MN Historical Society, W Magazine, The United Way, Dove and more. Andrea’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and has been awarded with the Tim Hetherington Visionary Award for excellence in film.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Portrait Photographer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director

Pete Kiehart is a visual journalist based in Washington, DC. His interests include a diverse array of topics - he’s covered the war in Donbas and Europe’s refugee crisis, as well as the Tour de France and the African Nations Championship. Previously, he worked for The San Francisco Chronicle, where he was a visuals editor and photographer. In addition to working regularly as a photojournalist and portrait photographer, Pete also has experience with videography and video production, as well as writing and designing. Before becoming a freelancer, he worked at Reportage by Getty Images, CNN and The Columbus Dispatch. 
Pete maintains a close relationship with The Eddie Adams Workshop since attending the Sixteenth Workshop as the High School Photographer of the Year. He has supported the workshop in numerous positions including as assistant producer of the workshop, as workshop photographer and as a member of the faculty. Pete holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Policy Studies from Duke University. Before transferring to Duke, he spent two years studying at Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication. When not working with photography and photographers, Pete enjoys riding bicycles, traveling, and live storytelling.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist

I began making films while in college and have since grown a freelancing venture into a company that produces and directs video projects for universities, Fortune 500 companies, and numerous national and regional organizations. I bring a dynamic catalog of experiences into projects as I’ve performed almost all of the roles involved in a commercial grade video production. I love bringing together a production team and approach that fits the story. Though there are crew that I work with often, I’m comfortable working with almost any team and I’d be the first to say that we need to look at the concept and ask, "what is really going to allow us to make this the right way?" When not working on a production, I’m usually playing with my two boys or exploring beauty in the great outdoors of North Carolina.

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• Video Editor - Commercial
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• Full-Service Live Production
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

I work primarily as a Documentary Storyteller. I am committed to social equality and fair representation of marginalized populations. I believe a documentary project directly reflects the relationship between the filmmaker and those being filmed, thus, my work explicitly represents the trust, commitment and reverence I have established with those who share their story with me. I make my films with the intention of connecting people, alleviating ethnocentrism, and providing visual and narrative evidence to help people learn about the world in which we live, consequently sparking a reaction, probing questions and exploring the idea of social change. By harnessing the power of narrative visuals and technology, I am able to contribute to an art that provides an accessible and entertaining avenue for people to learn, grow, connect, and act.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Creative Director
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• Field Producer

Digital Media and Production Specialist l.Key skills include videography, video editing and production with a vision, strategy and execution for TV, digital & social media. Experience of working with production teams to identify the appropriate social media content for broadcast, following the latest trends to engage the audiences on various platforms of social networks in both English and Urdu languages. As a multimedia producer, I have researched, wrote and edited documentaries and scripts. Worked with and along with daily assignment team members on reporting projects. Experience of working with various production teams to identify the appropriate broadcast martial while following the latest trends and social media. Experience in using social media content for the TV shows & engaging the audiences using various social media platforms.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
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• Video Editor - Documentary
• Line Producer / On-Location
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• Video Editor - Commercial
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• Production Assistant

Jacob Fisk is a shooter and producer with over a decade of experience in non-fiction video production. Though he is based in Washington, DC, his work has taken him all over the world, from Belize to Bahrain. He specializes in non-fiction and documentary productions, both long and short-form, and also works in branded content and corporate and marketing video. Jacob is fascinated by the ocean. He's spent months of his time onboard vessels, including an active USN aircraft carrier, a research vessel, crabbing boats in the Bering Sea, and shark tagging boats. He's scuba certified and thinks all time spent on or in the water is time well spent. Jacob also has a great love for the outdoors and backpacking. In 2018 and 2019, he hiked all two thousand one hundred and ninety-two miles of the Appalachian Trail with his partner Sarah.

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• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
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• Corporate Videographer
• Drone Operator

Hebah Kassem has over a decade of experience in public health, environment and climate justice policy, legislative affairs, community & grassroots organizing, and political strategy in Washington D.C. Prior to founding Visionary Edge, she served in leadership roles with a number of organizations including Just Solutions Collective, The Sunrise Project, Sierra Club, Green New Deal Network, Congressional Progressive Caucus Center, as well as political campaigns across the country helping elect progressive champions. During her time at Sierra Club, she led a team to help successfully organize around and pass the Inflation Reduction Act in collaboration with movement partners and community groups. Hebah holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Illinois-Chicago and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan.

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Steve Ellner is a retired professor of the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela and currently an Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives. He is the author and editor of over a dozen books on Latin American politics and history. His latest are his edited Latin America’s Pink Tide: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings (2020), Latin American Extractivism: Dependency, Resource Nationalism and Resistance in Broad Perspective (2021), and Latin American Social Movements and Progressive Governments: Creative Tensions between Resistance and Convergence (2023). He has published on the op-ed page of the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Ellner has been a visiting professor at Georgetown University (2004), Duke University (2005), University of Buenos Aires (2010), Australian National University (2013), Tulane University (2015) and elsewhere.

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Hannah Price is a graduate student at the New England Conservatory, studying under the mentorship of Ayano Ninomiya. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin Conservatory, after having begun her studies at Indiana University under the instruction of Sibbi Bernhardsson. In past summers she has participated in the Aspen Music Festival and School, Bowdoin International Music Festival, National Orchestral Institute, and Litomysl International String Masterclass, among others. Hannah has performed as an orchestral musician in venues including Carnegie Hall, Severance Hall, and the Meyerson Symphony Center. An active advocate for community engagement, Hannah has been involved in the development of the Musical Storytelling Project at Oberlin and as a participant in programs that bring music and instruction to Grafton Correctional Institution and hurricane-stricken areas of Puerto Rico.

• Music Composer

We are an award-winning, full-service video production company based in Washington, DC with more than 30 years of professional production experience. Leveraging our state-of-the-art studio facility in Northern Virginia, we produce everything from creative TV commercials to corporate marketing videos, training videos, documentaries, virtual studio productions and more. We have an in-house pool of videographers, animators, technicians, and storytellers ready to provide complete video production services and onsite AV support for your next corporate production or event. As a GSA-registered company in Washington, DC, we are proud to serve clients in every sector, including federal government, private businesses, associations, universities, nonprofits, and some of the world’s leading multi-national brands.

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• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Documentary DP

Telly Award winning Digital Cinematographer and Editor based in the Washington D.C. area. I work in Broadcast Production for Pro and College Sports teams. Music has always been an inspirational factor in the creation of my videos. Brand/Agency Experience: Red Bull, Washington Nationals Baseball Club (MLB), Monumental Sports & Entertainment (NHL, NBA, WNBA, NCAA), DC Defenders (XFL), D.C. United Soccer Club (MLS), Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), Van Wagner Big Screen Network, VOX Media - SB Nation, RHED Pixel - Lynda.com, SportTechie Video Production Specialties: Adobe Premiere Pro CC, Final Cut Pro 7, After Effects CC, Photoshop CC, Color Correction, Camera & Gimbal Operations, Lighting Broadcast Production Specialties: Click Effects CrossFire, ColosseoEAS, ChyronHego Lyric, XPression, NewTek 3Play, ENG Camera, Projection - Quince Imaging

• Production Assistant
• Video Editor - Documentary
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

Hello! My name's Mitchel Worley and I am a man of many film hats. I like to consider myself a utility player on a film set. I am a producer, director, cinematographer, and editor. For the past six years, I have worked avidly to turn what was a hobby in high school into a full services film production company: mwfilms. In it's short lifespan, mwfilms has produced television and web content for political campaigns throughout the United States. We’ve been behind the lens for short films & documentaries that have gone on to win awards and be featured in film festivals across the country. And finally, we’ve created stellar music videos for Florida and Virginia’s flourishing “DIY” music scene. mwfilms is always taking on new clients and new projects! Contact us and allow us to be the creative engine behind your next ad campaign, music video, short film, or documentary!

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• Video Editor - Commercial
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• News Shooter / Video Journalist

Winter BreeAnne is a social impact architect, creative strategist, and changemaker that works at the intersection of social justice, politics, and culture. From organizing the National School Walkouts that happened in March of 2018 where 2.7 million students chose to take a stand against gun violence, to working with TOMS to donate 5 million dollars to various grassroots organizations working towards ending gun violence, to partnering with Amplifier and Shepard Fairey to release a curriculum she wrote into 20,000 schools nationwide, Winter is committed to fostering change in some of the most vital spaces. She has been recognized by National Geographic, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, her own community, and various other entities as a Gen-Zer to watch. Currently, Winter resides in Washington DC where she is enrolled at Howard University studying Economics.

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• Content Strategist

Katherine is a freelance journalist by day and an extreme athlete by night (that is if you count Netflix marathons as an extreme sport). When she’s not starring at a screen she enjoys wandering, be it around her native home of Washington D.C. or in her adopted motherland of Africa. Katherine has turned her wanderlust into ‘wander-live,’ having traveled to over 25 countries and living on three different continents. For now she's living a double life as a freelance journalist and ballet dancer. Working for a number of publications including Marie Claire, The New York Times, US News & World Report and Dance Media, Katherine has a great deal of journalism experience and is excited to enlist her knack for writing in the hopes of encouraging others to pursue their dreams and change the world for the better.

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• Copy Editor

Caitlin Faw is a multimedia journalist currently based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her photo work has appeared in The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. She has exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Anacostia Arts Center in Washington, D.C., as well as the Brooklyn Fire Proof in New York City, and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Israel. Her short documentary film, "Inseparable," was featured at the Maryland International Film Festival. Caitlin received a Master of Arts in New Media Photojournalism from the Corcoran College of Art + Design (now the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University) in 2014. She has interned with The Washington Post, NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune, and The Baltimore Sun.

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

I'm a highly-experienced video and film producer with a track record of producing projects that attract an audience and get results. My series "Cash Cab" is one of the most successful TV series of the last 15 years, and I won three Emmys for my work as Executive Producer, Director and Show runner. Since leaving "Cash Cab," I've created and produced two TV series for Nat Geo Wild and MSNBC. I've also produced dozens videos and spots for corporations, non-profits and organizations, and have created viral content for clients big and small. I work closely with clients to create concepts, write scripts, storyboard, design productions, direct in the field, and deliver highly-effective videos and films.

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• Video Editor - News
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• Video Editor - Documentary
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• Corporate Videographer
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• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director
• Copy Editor

I'm an award winning mixer and sound designer who's been deeply involved in broadcast television, cinematic films, documentaries, emerging media, reality television, political campaigns and podcasts everyday for years. I am primarily a post production mixer, however I have a very strong secondary interest in capturing quality sound typically for sound effects, for any production because I know what I want to hear in the mix suite! I've worked with talented Directors, Producers and DP's that respect and appreciate capturing audio properly. Please reach out to talk over your project and request a link for examples. SEARCHABLE KEYWORDS post production, audio, field audio, pro tools, surround, sound editor, sound mixer, 5.1

• Sound Mixer
• Sound Designer
• Audio Storyteller

I am resident of Carrboro, NC but originally from the Seattle, WA area. I speak English fluently and some broken Mandarin. I've been working in the fields of documentary film and photography for 9 years. I have been on assignment in 30 different countries, including 12 different countries in Africa, 5 different countries in Europe and many more in Latin America and Asia. I've shot for companies such as FOX, CBS, Gatorade and ESPN, among many others. In addition to extensive documentary film cinematography I am a very competent documentary and portrait photographer. I also have experience as an editor and colorist in Final Cut Pro X. I have been a freelance filmmaker and photographer for 9 years now and am looking to continue to grow my clientele.

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• Fixer
• Commercial DP
• Production Assistant
• Corporate Videographer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist