Discover Top Freelancers in Philippines

Alec Figuracion is a 26-year-old independent filmmaker who has a degree in Psychology at University of Santo Tomas, and a diploma in Filmmaking from the International Academy of Film and Television in Cebu, Philippines where he was given the "Special Award in Directing" as a recognition for his short thesis film, “Tangible”. At the age of 22, he was given the opportunity to direct his feature film, "Bitukang Manok”, for Cinema One Originals 2014 which won “Best Cinematography”. His second feature, “The Eternity Between Seconds” for CineFilipino Film Festival 2018, won “Best Picture”, “Best Director”, “Best Cinematography”, “Best Editing”, and “Best Sound”. It was also exhibited as part of “A Window to Asian Cinema” section in the 2018 Busan International Film Festival, and won “Best Screenplay” at Cape Town Film Market 7 Festival 2018. Alec also works as a freelance editor and his work includes “1st Sem” for CineFilipino 2016, “Hinulid” for QCinema 2016 starring Nora Aunor, and an assortment of short video projects and digital advertising.

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Copywriter
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Production Assistant

Biography Ferdinandh Ballentes Cabrera is a freelance multimedia journalist based in Southern Philippines. He was born in Parang, Maguindanao in September 11, 1981 to parents Ernesto and Celisa. He is a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Development Communication at the University of Southern Mindanao. He started his career in journalism in 2004 when he joined ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation Cotabato as regional TV reporter. In 2007, he joined network GMA network as stringer assigned in Central Mindanao but by this time he was starting his career as multimedia journalist covering stories for print, TV, online and photo agencies. He can work alone, edit videos and produce stories connecting with various sources from military, government, rebels, NGO’s and sometimes from terror groups itself. Covering Mindanao at young he was exposed in countless frontline war reportage, bombings, indigenous people’s concern, mass displacement of people, natural disasters, human rights violations, environmental and indigenous concerns, insurgencies, terrorism other major social issues. The latest he covered was the five months battle in Marawi from week one to the last week. In 2011, he was chosen as one of the fellows of Asean Center for Journalism for Journalism at the Ateneo De Manila for diploma in multimedia journalism. Aside from active stringer for GMA Network and also Mindanews correspondent, he is also a Mindanao stringer for wires, Agence France Presse. Mr. Cabrera used to contribute stories also for Rappler, , Vera Files, Philippine Daily Inquirer, European News Agency, Al Jazeera, HBO’s Vice News and among others.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Production Company
• Drone Operator
• Fixer
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Video Editor - News
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Production Assistant

Veejay started out as a staff photographer for the national news magazine the Philippines Graphic before venturing into freelancing. He also worked with several international news wire agencies before concentrating on his documentary projects in Asia. He is the the recipient of the 2008 Ian Parry Scholarship grant with his project on the lives of former gang members in Manila which also garnered him a residency at the Visa Pour l'image photojournalism festival hosted by Crossing Point residency program on the same year. He was also the first Filipino to be selected in the 2013 Joop Swart Masterclass program. Currently based in Manila, he does editorial assignments apart from working on his long-term projects tackling issues on the changing Filipino culture and religious practices, displacement due to the drastic change climate/weather patterns and his current exploration of Filipino diaspora through different landscapes across the Philippines.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Audio Storyteller

Jonathan Jose Z. Olarte is a freelance filmmaker, visual artist, and human rights activist born and raised in Metro Manila, Philippines. He is currently pursuing further studies at the University of the Philippines, Diliman for Fine Arts. He studied cinematography at the International Academy of Film and Television, and apprenticed under visual artist and cinematographer Napoleon Jamir III. He has shot for several international documentaries such as the Human Rights Watch, BBC Reel, Zinc, TRT World, Rappler, VICE NEWS, and award-winning project of Dutch public broadcasting cooperation VPRO: Metropolis, and several episodes for “180 Seconds” of The Goethe Institute. As of today, Jose has been focusing on the art of moving images and video installations. In his recent works has been dabbling in between white cubes and black boxes.

• Documentary DP
• Production Company
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Production Assistant
• Gaffer
• Grip
• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Colorist

A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University with a major in Social Sciences, I worked for many years in Leo Burnett as an advertising creative winning several awards. In 2003 I started directing music videos, behind-the-scenes featurettes and documentaries for major networks and production companies. I still continued to work with advertising agencies in creating novel concepts for commercials and corporate communications. As a skilled musician, I also compose, arrange and perform original music for most of my projects. In 2013, I directed my first full-length feature film entitled "Coming Soon", a comedy-drama starring some of the country's most promising young actors. I am also an avid surfer, and have recently been working on projects with the newly-founded ByTheSea Productions which takes me to some of the most beautiful beaches all over the country.

• Documentary DP

George Buid is a freelance photographer and journalist based in Metro Manila, Philippines. His work has been published in Zuma Press, Orato World media, Business Mirror, InterAksyon, PETS International magazine, and other news outlet. He is a self-taught photographer who started his career in photojournalism and visual documentary storytelling in 2014. He won an award in 1st place for "Where Your Taxes Goes" photography contest in 2021. He focuses on culture, lifestyle, fashion, environment, human interest, current news, and documentary in both visual and written stories. Yet, he occasionally writes and covers science, history, sports, politics, and art. George continuously works on personal projects but is also always open to assignments. He is a member of Press Photographers of the Philippines and the Society of Freelance Journalists.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Portrait Photographer
• Event Photographer

Being a freelance artist for film production and visual design, I would say other than my learned skills, my edge would be having a good eye for detail and aesthetics. For more than 6 years of freelancing, I have worked with different people in different fields, be it in music, traditional arts, dancing, filmmaking, retail, culinary arts and many more. I'm open to new ideas and concepts, and I also enjoy working in a creative way. Other than collaborating and working with a team, I've also done projects in film as a one-woman crew. For print ads, I've created posters, banners, fliers, album art, magazine layouts, book covers, packaging and many more. I've also done branding for several products, including their social media content (both video and print).

• Line Producer / On-Location
• Creative Director
• Animator / Visual Effects Artist
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Post-Production Manager
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Colorist
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Hair and Make-up Artist
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Transcriber
• Fixer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Production Assistant

First and foremost, I love creating stories through videos. I've been obsessed with the idea of telling stories ever since I created my first video. I've moved on from just video editing to animation and felt more free to interpret the stories in a whole new different way. In 2012, I've started working as a freelancer for different broadcasting, creative agencies and brands from Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. In 2016, With the help of the experience gained as a freelancer, I was able to establish my own little studio, Opsixty. And have been still working with creative agencies and brands from the same region minus broadcasting as we are now focused on telling stories through Explainer Videos.

• Motion Graphics Designer
• Creative Director
• Animator / Visual Effects Artist
• Fixer

I was born and raised in a little town called Malabon where I first explored street photography and documenting floods. I've been a photographer for most of my relatively young career and am now venturing to the exciting world of multimedia, and of course, videography. My subject interests range from people involved in culture, politics, human rights, environment, education, sports and health to everyday stories in the streets that are just waiting to be found. I recently completed a diploma in Multimedia Journalism at the Asian Center for Journalism, Ateneo de Manila University and I'm currently teaching photography at the School of Design & Arts, College of Saint Benilde, Manila. In my spare time, I also do yoga, explore different cuisines, travel and make some music.

• Documentary DP
• Sound Mixer

King Catoy is an independent documentary filmmaker and alternative media practitioner in the Philippines. In 2009, he became Executive Director of Mayday Multimedia, a video collective focusing on workers issues, and in 2012, became Multimedia Director of the non-profit media group PinoyMedia Center Inc. He sits on the Board of Directors of AlterMidya- People’s Alternative Media Center, a national network of independent and grassroots-based media outfits in the Philippines. He has also worked on several video advocacy projects with Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific. He has directed many videos and trained marginalised communities and alternative media practitioners on video production.

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

Christine Chung is a Korean Filipino freelance photographer based in the Philippines. She is interested in exploring internal life through imagery. In 2012 and 2014, she was awarded a scholarship grant and was mentored by Kevin WY Lee in the Invisible Photographer Asia Online Mentorship Program. Here she produced 'A Portrait of Us.' In 2015, she was mentored by documentary photographer Alex Baluyut in the Masterclass in Documentary Photography Edition 10. In the same year, she attended the Angkor Photo Festival Workshop where she was mentored by Magnum members-photographers Sohrab Hura and Antoine d'Agata. She graduated in 2016 with a degree in Humanities with concentrations in English Literature and Art Management from Ateneo de Manila University.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Transcriber
• Event Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Audio Storyteller
• Reporter / Journalist
• Copywriter
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

I'm Tammy Danan and I'm a freelance storyteller. I'm a person of words but I can't help but take a deep-dive into video and photography. Currently based in Davao City, Philippines, I try to focus on stories of women, LGBTQ+ folks, indigenous people and refugees. I work with a humble team of four talented and highly creative brains, though sometimes, we're scattered with our separate projects. Past works include one for OZY where I interviewed a teacher terrorized for teaching indigenous people, Momentist where I chatted with various mobile photographers, VICE where I got in touch with three different organizations around the globe to know the state of human trafficking and modern slavery, OFF Assignment, GO Mag, and a few more.

• Reporter / Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Field Producer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist

I am a photographer associated with the online Mindanao-based news agency MindaNews. I am currently a communications assistant for the Untied Nations International Labour Organization in Manila. I have managed a World Press Photo-funded network of multimedia journalists (Panglantaw Mindanao, under the auspices of the Konrad Adenauer Center for Journalism) who were tasked to produce multimedia stories about Mindanao. During my tenure I also contributed my own multimedia stories. I am studying for a masters degree in anthropology and am currently conducting field research for a thesis on indigenous peoples' lived concepts of space and place as they interact with state policy.

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

Daniel is a documentary and narrative editor. His wide-ranging interests and sense of harmony have led to more than twenty years of collaborations across industries. His first movie, Pepot Superstar, won Best Film and Best Editing at the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival in 2005. His work for History Asia includes The Housewife Who Led a Revolution -- a documentary about Cory Aquino and how she became Asia's first female president. For CNN Philippines, he edited Profiles with Mitzi Borromeo, a weekly TV magazine program. Daniel has also worked on corporate videos for international and regional brands.

• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - News
• Senior Editor

Dezza Rodriguez is a freelance video editor and a 360 video specialist. She has worked with brands like, Unicef, World Wildlife Fund, Cebu Pacific, Lucky Me, Oppo, Del Monte and among others. She has edited documentaries, digital ads, TV plugs and AVPs. ​Naturally curious, she has been dipping her feet in 360 videos and has been shooting and experimenting with the new medium to create immersive content. She represented Philippines in the First VR Filmmaking Hackathon in Southeast Asia by WondaVR. The resulting work earned an exhibition space in ArtScience Museum Singapore. She has also exhibited her works in DigiCon 2017.

• Creative Director
• Production Assistant
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
• VR / AR
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

I'm Mark Bertulfo, a filmmaker and story teller living in the Philippines. For more than 5 years now, I have been documenting unique events and programs for Non Government Organizations and Corporations. I've seen and covered very diverse projects ranging from surgical missions, to outreach programs, and even the occasional corporate ads. Travelling to the outskirts of the city to the far flung provinces of the Philippines. I can do work on my own, arranging everything from logistics to schedules and the actual filming. But I'm also a good team player and capable of contributing my share of results with the rest of the group. I am ready to tell your story.

• Documentary DP
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Fixer

My name is Dror Levi. My experience with story telling started with capturing weddings. When most of the wedding videographers edit in this boring traditional way I edited and filmed it as a documentary film with a cinematic touch to it. From the wedding industry I transition to the commercial video industry and produced mini documentry\promo films to different companies. I would love to touch any subject that is a real lifr subject. If I had a movie docmentary that I will would like to produce now, it will be about the souldures that coming back from the war zone and can not fit back to life. As well about how the american sociaty value souldures. --

• Documentary DP
• Sound Mixer

AC Dimatatac is a photojournalist who documents social issues and current events. She is also a communications consultant for various international NGOs and a part time journalism professor in Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP). She previously worked as a photographer for Business World and Agence France Presse (AFP). Her work experience covers a range of projects with media, environmental, humanitarian and government institutions. A graduate of AB Mass Communications from Adamson University, she eventually took her specialization in Photojournalism from the Kondrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism. She also obtained her Master in Communication degree from PUP.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist

Hi everyone! I'm Lady and I'm 25 years old from the Philippines. I am backed with Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Diploma from Silliman University. I love working with videos and making stories through them and share my creation to the world. I also work around Photoshop, editing photos and does a few graphic designing like logos and shirt designs. I love recording too using Adobe Audition and records not only songs but also voiceovers. I consider myself a natural borne lyricist too because I can make lyrics of any genre effortlessly. I'm looking forward into working with you. Have a great day!

• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - News
• Audio Storyteller
• Colorist
• Copywriter
• Fixer

Eloisa Lopez is a freelance photographer and journalist based in Manila, Philippines. She covers crime, human rights, women and children issues. She is also a correspondent for Manila-based news outlet Rappler where she writes breaking news and feature stories on Manila cops, crimes, and daily life. She is an honors graduate of De La Salle University Manila where she took up Communication Arts, and worked as a staff photographer for the school newspaper. Her work has appeared on The New York Review of Books, TIME (online), The New York Times (online), Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN), and Philippine Daily Inquirer—where she was a photo correspondent for two years after college.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Fixer