Discover Top Documentary DPs in Paterson, New Jersey, USA

I am currently a freelance editor at ABC. I have also worked as a video editor for Bloomberg. My roles at both networks vary from editor and co-producer of promotional content to editor for news packages and specials. Both networks require special attention to details like third party content usage and restrictions, deadlines, flexibility with work hours, and definitely require a positive attitude. I take pride in being accustomed to working under pressure and collaborating with a diverse group of people.

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

Working in TV /Film I have had the chance to do every role on set. While my main focus is being a Director of Photography/ Camera Operator, I still appreciate the work it takes to create a quality product. I bring a high level of energy into every project, and every project influences the next. Whether it be low budget or large scale production my motto is to be the first on-site and the last to leave. I have a great crew that I work with often and multiple camera, lighting, and sound packages, I look forward to helping you make your vision a reality.

• Documentary DP
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• Fixer
• Production Assistant

I am the director and cinematographer of the documentary feature “Marina Abramovic The Artist is Present” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and on HBO and won an Emmy and a Peabody award. I directed and shot the highest rated primetime special of 2013 on ABC “David Blaine Real or Magic” and of 2016 "David Blaine Beyond Magic." I have also produced, directed, shot, and edited documentaries about blindness, guns, disease, spies, drugs, prison, hackers, soldiers, athletes, politicians, musicians, the circus, theater, and more.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Production Company
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Audio Storyteller
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Fixer
• Production Assistant

I am a photographer / cinematographer with experience primarily in the outdoor, ocean, adventure sector. Originally from outside New York City I've spent over 20 years working in and around the ocean and in large surf around the world. I have a business degree in information systems from Wake Forest and Lehigh Universities and I spent 7 years working with IBM prior to transitioning to a self-employed visual journalist. I am a licensed commercial UAV operator of the FAA in the USA as of October 2016.

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• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Drone Operator
• Production Assistant
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Full-Service Live Production
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist

Vashni Balleste is from upstate New York and studied broadcast journalism at Xavier University. She has been a freelance photographer for Ebony Magazine and written for tennis.com and latina.com. Balleste is a UNCF grant recipient and documented political issues at the borders of Haiti for American Friends. She has directed music videos, contributed to publications such as Sofar Sounds, BalconyTV, and Data News Weekly. A culture enthusiast and documentarian, Vashni’s goal is always to build platform for often silenced voices.

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

Hreedoy Anirban Khandakar is a film cameraman, screenwriter and producer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He worked for few independent feature documentary and fiction films, corporate films, music video and TV commercials in home and abroad. He has also expertise in research and editing. He used to work with professional crew of the industry and well connected. He is a activist of Khulna film society movement. He was attached with JOGI-motion studio a prolific audio-visual factory since 2009 to December 2012 and now he is associated as a film producer with Syndicate Films in 2013.

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

Hello! My filmmaking endeavors run the gamut from personal documentaries to phone commercials. In each project, I dedicate myself to telling a compelling story. My short films have screened at NewFest, Inside Out Film Fest and on PBS and MSNBC.com. My commercial work includes spots for Sony, ESET Antivirus and Cate McNabb. I am currently in post-production on my first feature, a narrative film starring Brian J. Smith (Sense8). I'm also a recipient of the Cinereach Film Fellowship and a graduate of Cornell University.

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

Kristyn is a freelance documentary photographer and filmmaker using her insatiable curiosity to tell people’s stories in new and innovative ways. With an interest in human rights, community dynamics and inequality, her work has brought her into rural villages in Africa, onto the back of a dog sled in Iceland, and through some of the poorest areas of the Philippines. She seeks to meet new people, learn about how they live & work, listen to their experiences and find ways to impact change by bringing their stories to others around the world with respectful and meaningful imagery.

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

Born and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey, Kevin Torres is a Media Specialist with 10 years of videography, photography, and media content experience. He is a graduate of New Jersey Institute of Technology, and received a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering. Torres has been with Oye Group (non-profit 501c3) since 2014 as videographer and Technical Director for various festivals and original productions such as; Conversation Pt 1: How to Make it in Black America (2015), Last Night at the Palladium (2016), & Oye for My Dear Brooklyn (2018).

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Full-Service Live Production
• Executive Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Podcast Producer

Laura Belsey has directed across several genres – including episodic television, documentaries, commercials, and short films. She has won numerous international awards, including a Cannes Gold Lion. Her feature-length documentary, KATRINA’S CHILDREN, which explores the impact of Hurricane Katrina strictly from the point of view of children from different neighborhoods of New Orleans, was selected by Booklist Editors’ Choice as one of the ten best documentaries of 2008. Recently, Laura directed multiple episodes CRIMINAL MINDS and LAW & ORDER SVU.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary

I'm a freelance journalist and videographer making my way into the broadcast industry. I shoot, edit, and report for TV, documentary, and radio. I have a strong understanding of different industry-related software such as Adobe CC and CS6, and Final Cut 7 and X. I specialize in backpack journalism-- meaning that I work with a variety of cameras and equipment that allow me to get into film ops that may not be as friendly towards traditional tripod-dependent or beta cameras. I take pride in any work I do for myself and others, and I promise quality and expertise to the highest standards.

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

I specialize in producing videos for business websites, blogs and social media with a focus on your core message. Whether you want to demo a product, tell your vistors who you are, explain your website, educate your customers about your business and products or promote an event; we can help. Every business wants to connect to their customers in the most efficient way possible. For this reason, video has become a crucial element on business websites, blogs and social media. My services are turnkey all the way from script writing, filming, animation, editing and everything in between.

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

Hi. My name is Arash Arabasadi. I'm a video journalist working with Voice of America in Washington. I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2006. My first job was with ABC News Washington. I wrote and collected news for radio and television broadcasts, but after a year or so, VOA came calling. I am a true, one-man-band. I shoot, edit, write and produce my own, original content. I've either guest lectured or taught journalism at Howard University, Georgetown University, Hampton University, and UNC. Hello friends!

• Documentary DP
• Sound Mixer

My name is Karina E. Cuevas and I am a native New Yorker. I have lived in NYC for most of my life, except I went to high school in the Dominican Republic. Went to undergrad at Penn State where I majored in journalism and french. Masters in Journalism at Columbia University in May 2014. I want to tell the kind of stories you don't hear in the news very often or at all. Stories like domestic violence in the Dominican Republic and how in six years there have been 1,336 gender relates homicides. Maybe I'm being overzealous, but I want to give a voice to those who are afraid to speak.

• Documentary DP
• Sound Mixer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Reporter / Journalist
• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Teo Melchishua is an award winning digital media producer, filmmaker, animator, projection and motion graphics designer, VJ and professor. He is currently exploring narrative projects that explore concepts in sci-fi, drama, animation, experimental as well as artistic endeavors in video projection, projection mapping and visual experience design. As a digital media producer, Teo is always "in the lab" seeking new and innovative ways to trasmit his audiences and clients into new worlds and challenge boundaries.

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

Bella and Elle Media is an International full service production company that produces Television shows, films and documentaries. Bella and Elle Media has created two powerful television series that air on major networks. One being EIGHT DAYS and the other is REVERSED. Both programs were created for healthy living and provides quality entertainment, education and features the biggest names in health. As seen on PBS, Discovery Channel, Cox, CNN, Glewed tv, WGN America, Yurview, among other tv networks.

• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Senior Editor
• Full-Service Live Production
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Executive Producer
• Field Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Production Company
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Commercial DP
• Drone Operator
• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Translator
• On-Camera Talent
• Sound Mixer
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Animator / Visual Effects Artist
• Illustrator
• Storyboard Artist

Experienced audio/video professional with 15+ years in editing and recording of major news events, daily television, and music award programs. I am proficient in post production, and have supervisory experience, as a Chief Audio Editor having managed the technical staff at Albanian Radio Television, the largest broadcaster in Albania. I have the ability to professionally manage multiple job functions simultaneously, the ability to maintain deadlines, and experience dealing with management & Senior Executives in a one on one or as group approach.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Production Company
• Grip
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Senior Editor
• Sound Mixer
• Production Assistant
• Gaffer

I am a versatile video producer with the ability to shoot, produce, and edit video content (documentary and scripted). I make short form video content that's easy to consume that lives on social media as well as corporate websites. Clients I've worked with include: -Toshi Reagon -The Bennett Sisters -Brooklyn Ballet -AfroPunk -Trade Union Cafe -Naked Beauty Podcast Below is my Equipment List: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (DSLR) Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II Blackmagic Pocket Cinema (2K) Panasonic Lumix G 20mm f/1.7 Lens

• Line Producer / On-Location
• Corporate Videographer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Production Company
• Field Producer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Production Assistant
• Fixer
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP

My names is Javier Vera-Abbassi, I am a creative director and freelance reporter. I work in video production with experience in film production, tv, social content and news coverage, both editorial and multimedia. I have worked as an editor for over five years in various environments spanning different media industries including artist coverage at Sony Music and Baebel Music, cultural news coverage for Televisa, and documentary work for LITV. My skillset include scriptwriting, camera work, research and analysis, and editing.

• Creative Director
• Reporter / Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Fixer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Production Assistant

I'm the Senior Producer for a small documentary production company based in NYC. We create content. We tell great stories. And we believe that a great story should be told well. We make everything from digital shorts to features. We've won international film festivals and had much of our work shown in theaters and on television, but we're equally satisfied when our videos end up on social media or youtube. Check out our website to see our client list and some samples of our work. Looking forward to hearing from you!

• Documentary DP
• Production Company
• Video Editor - Documentary