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  Documentary Storyteller developing documentary projects with a focus on social issues within urban settings. Territory, landscape, political borders, and conflict are recurrent themes in my work. Originally from Mexico, currently based in Washington DC, I hold a BA in Architecture and a MA in New Media Photojournalism from the Corcoran School of Arts + Design at the George Washington University. I am interested in getting involved in projects with a collaborative team of people that share the goal of making an impact through the creation of meaningful storytelling. Proficient user of Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, Final Cut, InDesign, Illustrator, Audition among other software. Currently based and available for assignments in Washington DC and Mexico City.

• Video Editor - Documentary
• Documentary DP
• Landscape Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Portrait Photographer
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Creative Director
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Corporate Videographer

Sage Velastegui is a video producer, editor, and colorist with 10+ years of experience. Throughout his long-standing relationship with Turner Sports’ Bleacher Report, he helped develop their identity from the ground up with his signature approach to storytelling. During his run at Bleacher Report, he generated 30M+ views across all social media platforms. Some of his most notable work at Bleacher Report is Taking It There with Taylor Rooks, Finish the Lyric featuring Lil Wayne, and No Script with Marshawn Lynch. In 2017, Sage had an integral role as a colorist for Complex’s television series on Fuse, Complex X Fuse. Since then, he has color graded a handful of Complex’s series, including First We Feast’s Hot Ones, Sneaker Shopping, No Co-Sign, and Feast Mansion. Sage has partnered with Complex, NBC Universal, Equinox, Gatorade, Adidas, NFL Network, Ford Motor Company, Google, Ralph Lauren, and various others. He specializes in features, doc-series, short films, branded content, and music videos. Sage resides in New York City and is always excited to work with new clients who want to take their vision to the next level.

• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - News
• Production Company
• Field Producer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• TV News Producer
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Creative Director
• Colorist
• Post-Production Manager
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Full-Service Live Production

Chris Vivion is a Producer and Development Executive with multiple Emmy and Webby Award nominations. Chris has created lifestyle, cooking competition, comedy, animation and reality programming for Time Inc., Turner Broadcasting, Scripps Networks and HBO. He has developed award-winning digital programming and products, including launching digital channels and extensions for iconic entertainment brands. As an Executive Producer for Turner Broadcasting, he created "The Tim Ferriss Experiment," a life hacking docu-series starring NY Times best-selling author Tim Ferriss, which debuted at #1 on iTunes in 2015 and "Cook Your Ass Off," with Top Chef's Richard Blais. Prior to Turner, Chris was the Executive Producer, Digital Video for Food Network, leading the development and production of all the channel’s original web series and digital-first efforts, including "Bobby Flay Fit," "Chopped After Hours," Star Salvation," and the comedy series "Fodder." Chris was an Adjust Professor of Multimedia Design at the American University of Dubai and is an inaugural member of Bloomberg Beta's Future Founder program. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia.

• Fixer
• Production Company
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
• Full-Service Live Production

I am a Spanish-American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer based in Brooklyn, NY, currently finishing my first feature documentary, Freeing Juanita about a Guatemalan family attempting to free their niece from wrongful detention in northern Mexico. My first feature as cinematographer, The Art of Making It (2021), won the SXSW 2022 Audience Award in the Festival Favorites category. A recent short doc artist portrait I filmed for Art21 received a Vimeo Staff Pick.   The last documentary short I directed, Esquilas en la montaña / Bells in the Mountains (2017), screened at New Orleans Film Festival and San Francisco Documentary Festival. I got my start in film while studying at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, TN where I graduated magna cum laude in 2013 with a BA in Anthropology and in Film. In Nashville I made my first videos, supporting workers' rights organizing and activist and social justice campaigns, like the Fight for $15 Movement.

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

At 13 i was the paperboy in port of Athens, Greece. At 18 i was reading Paul Virilio trying to understand mass media & communication theories for college degree. At 19 i was reporting live on news radio. At 20 i was told i should drop radio for live TV. For next 6 years my news reporting repertoire spanned anything from an elephant's birthday to Athens street gangs violence, to dead sea lions to Middle East conflict zones and Olympic Games. One day i was told i should drop reporting for hosting breaking news. After a year of reading the teleprompter under intense studio lights (it felt like chicken broiler) at age 26 i moved to New York. At 28 i finished my photojournalism studies at ICP in NY. At 29 i signed as the NY Bureau Chief for ERT / Hellenic Broadcasting Corp. At 35 i founded IFFI Productions and Old Garage Studio in Brooklyn. Been around the globe few times and seems that i can't escape NYC. Cheers.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

I'm a filmmaker and journalist based in New York City. I've produced work for CBS, CNN, The Food Network, The New York Post, Great Big Story, The Guardian, OZY, Fusion, Univision, UPI, NPR, Poynter.com, the Wall Street Journal, The Global Post, Mashable, The Daily News and This American Life and others. My corporate and sponsored content clients include VISA, Vespa, Microsoft and Singha Beer. Most recently, I started my own production company Fair Voyage Films and chased stories across Southeast Asia. Before that, I worked as the Multimedia Director for Coconuts Media, Southeast Asia's fastest growing digital media property. I have reported from refugee camps and environmental disaster zones. I have covered revolutions, historic elections and violent protests across the globe. In addition to me production work, I taught digital media classes at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University and Webster University's Bangkok campus. I'm a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where I received two fellowships to extend my studies: the Digital Media Associate teaching fellowship and the New York World reporting fellowship.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Sound Mixer
• Fixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Creative Director
• Production Company
• Drone Operator
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Production Assistant
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Full-Service Live Production
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture

Danny Ghitis (b. 1982) is an editorial and commercial photographer whose personal projects revolve around the relationship between memory and identity. The son of Jewish South American immigrants, he moved around a lot as a child, which helped him to develop a lifelong interest in documenting the lives of strangers and culturally ambiguous communities. With his work he attempts to pose questions, rather than answers, to challenge expectations and encourage introspection. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, and tends to spend all his money on traveling and chocolate. When he’s not taking pictures he enjoys rock climbing and playing Dungeons and Dragons with his nerdy friends. Clients include Adbusters, AFAR, Bon Appetit, Billboard, Bloomberg Businessweek, BUST, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Chronicle of Higher Education, CNN, Global Strategy Group, Gothamist, Maclean’s, The New York Times, Newsday, Rolling Stone, Stern, and TIME.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Portrait Photographer

Livia is an award-winning, New York-based Brazilian producer and editor, known for her work on premium documentaries (long and short form), branded content and digital/ social media videos featuring high-quality, engaging content for high-end clients such as HBO, Netflix, Microsoft, Visa, Motorola, The New York Times, and Google. She is a highly adaptable, proactive, and skilled editor with outstanding technical and creative skills, comfortable owning the post-production process from start to finish. Always wearing many hats in the production world, Livia’s true passion is telling real stories. While dedicated full-time to her role as a filmmaker, she directs and funds several personal projects. Her first short documentary, "Cor de Pele," won the award for the best short documentary from the Brazilian Film Academy (an Oscar-recognized award) in 2019, and she is currently producing her first feature-length documentary, titled "Presente!," supported by the Sudance Film Institute.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Production Company
• Field Producer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Sound Mixer
• Executive Producer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Series Producer / Show Runner

Leah Galant is a Jewish filmmaker and Fulbright Scholar based in New York whose storytelling focuses on unexpected narratives that challenge perceptions. In 2021 she was recognized as one of DOC NYC’s 40 under 40. While at Ithaca College in 2015 she was named one of Variety’s "110 Students to Watch in Film and Media” for her work on THE PROVIDER that follows a traveling abortion doctor in Texas (SXSW 2016, Student Emmy Award) and BEYOND THE WALL about a formerly incarcerated individuals re-entry process. She was a Sundance Ignite and Jacob Burns Fellow where she created DEATH METAL GRANDMA (SXSW 2018) about a 97 year old Holocaust survivor named Inge Ginsberg who sings death metal which won “Best Documentary” at the American Pavilion at Cannes Film Festival, and is a NY Times Op Doc. Leah is a member of Meerkat Media worker-cooperative film production company. Leah's directorial debut ON THE DIVIDE premiered at the Tribeca 2021 Film Festival and will broadcast on POV PBS in the Spring of 2022 which she also shot.

• Documentary DP
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Field Producer
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist

Brian Wennersten has had a variety of experience in the film/video industry: from producing his own films to operating for corporate, documentary, and narrative productions. He is also an experienced Movi operator. You can see some of his work in his Reel: http://brianwennersten.me/My%20Work/cinematography-reel Brian is knowledgeable on most of the major camera systems, can assist by pulling focus, as well as manage camera settings and exposure. With extensive action sports experience, he is particularly at home in run-n-gun situations where there is only one chance to get the shot. Brian's film credits: The Bubble Film, Predator: a kiteboarding film Corporate: Hudson yards medical, NYU Hospital, Other Half Brewery, Sparks and Honey, Takoon kites Documentary/Factual: Point Road Productions, Custom Video Productions, Sea Shepherd Society, Blowback Productions, Triple-S Invitational

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

Noah Graham is Steadicam Operator, FAA Licensed Drone Operator, and Director of Photography, located in New York City, and Boston. Noah specializes in commercial video work, music videos and documentary. He is able to bring beautiful cinematic visuals to each genre helping tell each story to its fullest potential. Although these are different areas of video production, the connection throughout them are found in how Noah shoots, whether it is with Steadicam, Drone, or as the DP, his style of shooting is distinct. This is most easily described as freely and smoothly moving shots. This is what ties his work as a Steadicam Operator, Drone Operator, and Director of Photography together. In all three areas in which Noah focuses, he is able to create, and help create beautiful images that tell a story that people will be able to look at , remember, and have a connection with. This is what motivates Noah to get up every day, and look forward to the work ahead of him. People allow him to share these moments with them and create memories with them. "It will never get old," he says.

• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Drone Operator

Joe Hill is a journalist, photographer, and media producer. He is currently an Associate Producer for Vice News Tonight on HBO. Joe began his professional career as the founder and Executive Director of The Unexpected Laboratory, a creative production company that confronted current affairs with multimedia storytelling. Now called Round Room Image, his company focuses on international nonfiction media production. He just returned from shooting a feature film in Venezuela and from working for the Witness Program of Al Jazeera Network in Doha, Qatar. He has filmed educational videos with the Deaf community in Ethiopia, photographed political rallies in Pakistan, and has advanced Spanish language skills from his time in Cuba and Chile. He is a recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, where he created his own degree program called Image Production and Representational Studies. He is also a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Field Producer
• Fixer
• TV News Producer
• Production Company
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant
• Sound Mixer
• Drone Operator
• Reporter / Journalist

Carey is a photojournalist and cinematographer based in Brooklyn, NY. After ten action-packed years as a staff photographer at the Sun Sentinel, Fresno Bee, Desert Sun and Auburn Journal, she went independent in 2011 to pursue work about women around the world. She has told stories about gender-based violence in Papua New Guinea, child marriage in Nepal, sex trafficking in Seattle, meth addiction and childbirth in California, street harassment in New York and domestic violence in Florida. Carey has lived and photographed extensively throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. Her clients have included CARE, The New York Times, NBC News, Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and Sports Illustrated. She is also a Nikon School Instructor as well as a storytelling mentor and coach. Carey reported from Papua New Guinea as an IRP Health Fellow in 2012. She holds a B.A. in Cognitive Science and minor in Spanish from University of California, Berkeley.

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

Over the last 18 years, I have worked in almost every field of film, TV and video production and television journalism, and have spent the last nine years managing my own news and media production company. I have an excellent knowledge of the industry, as well as a proven track record of running a company and managing staff, projects and budgets. I have lived and worked in many different countries, all over the world, producing anything from news and feature stories, to sport, to branded content and everything in between. My experience overseas has given me a truly unique perspective on global current affairs and has fostered a deep interest in exploring every story I come across from as many different perspectives as I can see. I also have experience of working in conflict zones, covering major riots in China in 2008 and 2009, and I was in Libya for one month, during the fall of Tripoli, working for APTN. I have also covered several natural disasters, including the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake and flooding in Southern China. As well as possessing exceptional writing skills, my work in TV and new media, has given me a unique skill set, enabling me to get a message out to the widest possible audience, in the most engaging way and often to a tight budget. Working as a video journalist/producer, I have acquired further skills as a story-teller. I am an excellent lighting cameraman and video editor, filming on a wide range of cameras and formats and able to script and edit to tight deadlines. I am also a skilled Steadicam operator, with my own rig, suitable for most requirements. Post-production-wise, I consider myself an expert in the use of Premiere, Audition, Photoshop, Lightroom and After Effects, as well as several other programs in the Creative Suite. I also regularly edit with Final Cut Pro, Avid and Davinci Resolve. I am equally at home in the pre-production office, in front or behind the camera, in the edit suite or in a live studio environment. As well as working extensively with all kinds of video production, I am also an accomplished photographer, and often combine photography with my video work.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Fixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Reporter / Journalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Sound Mixer
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Corporate Videographer
• Drone Operator
• Production Company
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• TV News Producer
• Colorist
• Audio Storyteller
• Copy Editor
• Field Producer
• Gaffer
• Grip
• Motion Graphics Designer

Rebecca Davis is an Emmy Award-winning video journalist and documentary producer based in New York City. She was a senior producer with NBC News from 2013 through 2019 where she helped to launch NBC News' first digital video unit. Her work there focused on short-form documentaries and original video series. Previously she worked with the New York Daily News, where she covered everything from the Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest and the New York Jets to Occupy Wall Street and Hurricane Sandy. Davis received an Emmy in 2013 for her series “We witnessed 9/11 through their lenses,” which profiled six New York Daily News photographers who were working on the day of the September 11 attacks. Her work has been recognized by the National Press Photographers Association, the New York Press Photographers Association, the New York Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, the EPPY Awards, and the Society for Features Journalism.

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

Xinyan is an award-winning video journalist and filmmaker based in Washington DC. Born and raised in Wuhan, China, Xinyan started her journalism career in 2012 working as a producer for BBC News in Beijing covering the Asia Pacific region. In 2018, she launched the North America video team for Hong Kong’s flagship newspaper South China Morning Post in New York, and later joined the BBC's Washington DC bureau in 2020 as a senior video journalist. Xinyan's 23-min BBC documentary China’s Science Revolution won the 2015 BBC Storytelling Fund and was Highly Commended for Excellent Online Production at the 2016 AIB Awards. Her 15-min short film for South China Morning Post, Fighting Fentanyl: the Drug from China Destroying American Lives, won the Gold Prize for Best Use of Online Video at the 2019 WAN-IFRA Asian Digital Media Awards. A BBC News video feature she shot, Are America's unvaccinated changing their minds?, won a White House News Photographers Association's Eyes of History Digital Storytelling award in 2022. Now working as an independent filmmaker, she has directed and produced for the BBC, CNBC, PBS NOVA, Newsy and Channel New Asia. Xinyan is a Firelight Media Documentary Lab fellow, a Brown Girls Doc Mafia Sustainable Artist fellow and an alumnus of the Yaddo Residency.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Documentary DP
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• HD Live Operator
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Drone Operator
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Audio Storyteller
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Corporate Videographer

Collin Brazie is a Director of Photography working in the narrative, documentary and commercial/branded fields. He studied at Dodge School of Media Arts at Chapman University in Southern California under Bill Dill, ASC. He has lensed a wide variety of projects, - most notably the features All I Need, the award winning drama Retake, and web shows for the CW and Hulu. Beyond the narrative field he has traveled the country shooting documentaries and branded commercials for numerous Fortune 500 companies. Although typically behind the camera, Collin has helped produce and direct projects with Closing Time Productions - including Retake which was acquired and distributed by Breaking Glass Pictures. After a theatrical debut in Los Angeles, the film has been released all over the world and is currently streaming on Amazon and Hulu. Closing Time Productions is currently in preproduction on their next feature film. When not on set he enjoys traveling, photography, live music and watching the latest Criterion release. He is based in New York.

• Commercial DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Gaffer
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Corporate Videographer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Portrait Photographer

Soraya Auer is a freelance multimedia journalist based in New York City, who has reported in Europe, the U.S. and South Asia. She is a confident self-shooting producer and editor, with experience using Canon C100s, DLSRs, equipment like track sliders and shoulder mounts, and editing using Adobe Premiere Pro. Her video work has been published by the BBC, Architectural Record, Plus Model Magazine and others. Her short documentary Relevé, about a black male ballet dancer's journey from Chicago's projects to an elite NYC dance school, recently won an Audience Choice Award at a short film festival in New York. Her range of video experience - from filming rugby games to jails and juvenile offenders to exotic animals - has made her into a versatile shooter. She is a recent graduate of Columbia University School of Journalism's documentary program, where she focused on digital reporting and video production. She speaks French, German and Bengali and has an expertise in South Asia.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Fixer
• Video Editor - News
• Sound Mixer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Translator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Salvatore D'Alia Filmmaker, Photographer & Content Creator. Italian born and raised, I moved to NYC in 2010 after graduating at the Academy of Cinema and TV of Milan. I am a trailblazing content creator, whose work has reached an astounding global audience, amassing billions of views. My innovative contributions to YouTube's original content have set new standards, collaborating with industry giants, including Fortune 500 companies and renowned artists such as Madonna, Blake Shelton, Ed Sheeran, and more. Beyond the digital realm, my storytelling prowess extends to the world of cinema, where my fiction and documentary films have graced the screens of prestigious international festivals, earning accolades and recognition for their compelling narratives. Furthermore, my Instagram-based web series, 'Through The Lens,' has cultivated a dedicated following with over 100 engaging episodes and millions of viewers, underscoring my ability to captivate and engage audiences across platforms. With a career steeped in content strategy and production, I bring a wealth of experience to the table, ensuring each project is thoughtfully crafted and meticulously executed. I proudly serve as a SONY Alpha ambassador since 2016, exemplifying my commitment to excellence in the world of visual storytelling.

• Documentary DP
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Digital Content Creator
• Creative Director
• Full-Service Live Production
• Content Strategist
• Social Media Producer

Whitney Shefte is a Peabody, Murrow and Emmy Award-winning independent video journalist and documentary filmmaker who worked for The Washington Post for over 17 years. With a highly versatile and adaptable skill set, Whitney works as a director, cinematographer, producer and editor on documentary, breaking news, interactive, feature stories and sponsored/commercial projects. Whitney’s work has taken her all over the world to tell stories across coverage areas. She documented the war in Ukraine, climate change in Greenland, the ongoing conflict in Western Sahara, press access issues in Pakistan and the aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda. She has also covered myriad issues across the United States from politics to healthcare to immigration to education. Whitney was part of the team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in public service for coverage of the January 6 insurrection and its aftermath. Her work on traumatic brain injury in the military earned a Peabody Award.

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Field Producer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Content Strategist