Discover Top Production Assistants in Portland, Oregon, USA

I am a video producer, editor, multimedia journalist, and photographer. I'm passionate about telling untold stories and shedding new angles on current topics. My interests and experience range from long form documentaries, to short news packages, to podcast segments, to corporate live events. most importantly, I love the adventure of challenge of making videos and getting out into the field to make stories come to life.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• Digital Content Creator
• Podcast Producer
• Audio Storyteller
• Reporter / Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Transcriber
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Landscape Photographer
• TV News Producer
• Copywriter
• Field Producer
• Production Assistant
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Post-Production Manager
• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Senior Editor

Freelance video journalist whose regular clients include Reuters and AFP, as well as a raft of Storyhunter partners. I started out in 1992 covering the Bosnian civil war. I've worked in 25+ countries through companies such as Frontline Television News and Insight TWI, as well as on behalf of the the BBC and many other broadcasters. Gear includes Sony PXW-X180 XDCAM camcorder (with x25 lens) kit plus full audio (wireless lav, gun mike etc.) and lights.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant
• Drone Operator
• Field Producer

My first camera shot on S-VHS, and now I shoot on cinema cameras that are half the size or less. I've worn many hats throughout my career (figuratively and literally). Whether I'm writing, producing, directing, shooting, or editing, I love what I do. I mainly work in the Pacific NW but often travel for work (and pleasure, because I love it).

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

Seattle based producer and cinematographer with ability to translate current affairs issues into narrative-driven visual stories. My interdisciplinary experience and background allows for creative story concept development alongside efficient production management and visual storytelling skills.

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

Directors and Producers often commend me for my meticulous preparation and composure amidst the high stakes of production. This discipline stems from my upbringing in Colorado, where I developed an instinct for thorough planning in the mountains. These habits seamlessly transitioned into my cinematography work, where patience, foresight, and adaptability are crucial. The calm I maintain under pressure is a trait I learned as an aviator in the 1990s at Boeing Field in Seattle. In flying, equipment failures are anticipated, paralleling the unpredictability of a film set. I address equipment challenges with precision and resolve, ensuring swift recovery when conditions change. My drive as a filmmaker is fueled by a profound love for books, movies, and music. I view cinematography as a significant new language, one that requires learning and practice. I believe in the potential of international films to open windows onto the human condition and serve as instruments for peace.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Field Producer
• Production Company

I'm a 3x Emmy nominated Seattle based filmmaker. I've got my own small production company, and broadcast experience with local TV and my work has been seen on numerous television programs and at film festivals around the world. I'm competent and flexible working as a camera operator, interviewer, editor and producer and representing you with intelligence and integrity and delivering on your needs. My business is niched toward the green sector both nonprofits and commercial, though I also do a lot of work in documentary, tourism, live events coverage, and real estate. I speak fluent Spanish, have lived and worked in India and Nepal and have worked and traveled extensively. and maintain a global following on my personal youtube.com/LenDavis channel with 20 million+ views. In addition to Pangeality Productions, I also am the owner of www.LovingLegacyVideo.com a service which facilitates and films autobiographical interviews with elders and new parents.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• Fixer
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Translator
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant
• Creative Director

My name is Kevin Balmer, aka Diggable Monkey, and I've been in the freelance business of video production for the past 13 years. I've witnessed the vast evolution of the video media landscape in that period. I specialize in short and long-form documentaries mixed with a good dose of commercial ad work. My company brand is heavily associated with the arts and design arena, with a significant amount of subscription-based online course development. The last few projects I've completed were with the Oregon Historical Society, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, and the NW Blacksmiths Association. I can execute on all levels of the business from negotiating project scope to end-to-end production and final product delivery. I would eventually like to lead a production team and make inspirational stories to help save the planet. Currently, I'm coming up quickly on year four as a full-time Video Producer at Arcimoto, a three-wheel electric EV manufacturer in Eugene, OR.

• Documentary DP
• Production Company
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Sound Designer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Sound Mixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Fixer
• Commercial DP
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant
• Video Editor - News
• Corporate Videographer

Originally from the Midwest, I currently live in Portland, Oregon with my wife, Melissa, and our two dogs and cat. I received my MFA in Film and Television Production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and a BA in Film Studies from the University of Michigan. My film and video work has appeared in film festivals and been featured online at PBS, NPR, Comedy Central, Bust, Interview Magazine, GQ, the White House blog, Nylon, The Huffington Post, Jezebel and Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In blog. My photography has been featured online at National Geographic, Slate, Interview Magazine and Civil Eats and in print in National Geographic's hardcover book Feeding America: Stories of Hunger and Hope, Growing Oregon magazine, Venus Magazine, and various newspapers. Other previous film/video related experience includes casting assistant/extras casting for the Oscar-nominated film Nebraska, production assistant on music videos for Outkast and Beck, and assistant to screenwriter/producer Kirsten (Kiwi) Smith (Legally Blonde, 10 Things I Hate About You). I'm currently directing a documentary on the Rose City Riveters, the supporters group for the Portland Thorns of the National Women's Soccer League. I’m available for freelance directing, shooting, or producing.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Corporate Videographer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Production Assistant
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Fixer
• Commercial DP
• Event Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Field Producer
• Product Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Production Coordinator / Crewing

Born in Savannah, GA, Brock Scott is an artist, photographer and filmmaker living in Seattle, WA. After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Atlanta College of Art in 2009, Brock worked in the film industry on television and in major motion pictures such as The Walking Dead, Fast and Furious, and The Hunger Games. His experience in the film industry informed him of state-of-the-art techniques and knowledge that have been fundamental to his development as a filmmaker. In 2015, Brock became an independent documentary filmmaker, enjoying successful collaborations with BBC, Netflix, New Georgia Project, Adult Swim, and CDC. His film, Boxcar Fair, won the AIAP International Motion Award and was an Official Selection of the SXSW film festival. Scott is currently the founder of On the Grid Creative (OTGC), a Seattle based creative agency producing award-winning video productions focused on storytelling and social impact. During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021, Brock has worked with CDC and Living Walls to create a series of short documentaries informing people in Georgia about the importance of vaccination. Brock was also part of a public health campaign with Southern Fried Queer Pride promoting awareness regarding LGBTQ+ health and HIV prevention. He was the director of a 2020 film campaign with New Georgia Project to encourage voter turnout. In addition to filmmaking, music is one of Brock’s biggest influences. He is the lead singer and songwriter of the internationally touring act Little Tybee, which has produced four full-length albums of original music. With Little Tybee, Brock has toured in North America, Central America and Europe. Because of Scott’s musical experience, his visual storytelling style is rhythmic, blending the empathetic power of art and music with the real-life stories of people making a difference.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Drone Operator
• Creative Director
• Fashion Photographer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Production Company
• Production Assistant

Yeong-Ung Yang is a NY Emmy® Award-winning photographer and filmmaker, who formerly worked for Newsday as a staff multimedia producer. He produces visual news reports as well as long-form documentaries. Daily assignments have given him access to a wide range of subjects—from a longtime underboss of the Colombo crime family was released from prison at the age of 102, Trump Impersonators with different political views performing in the Trump era. Going back to the subjects pivoting off answers and engaging them on his own makes for a higher level of insight. He also works with other reporters and the editors from the newsroom to further expand news coverage. Yeong-Ung helps conceptualize and visualize investigative contents such as "Testing the Divide,” a recent Newsday's documentary film an undercover investigation revealing evidence of unequal treatment by real estate agents. As a cinematographer, he applied various visual skillsets ranging from setting up lighting and audio for studio interviews, portraits to aerial drone video. The piece won the Peabody Award in June, 2020. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Yeong-Ung has been focusing on documenting underreported stories that lay beneath the front pages. Works include a 7-month long video coverage of the Kurds in Iraq (2006), Asian immigrants riding casino buses as a lifeline(2013), and “Unvarnished,” a front-page New York Times series (May 2015), year-long in-depth investigation into the exploitation of nail manicurists who work primarily in Korean-owned salons. Series won Pulitzer Finalist in Local Reporting (Apr. 2016). Yeong-Ung co-directed a Love, mommy, a 30-minute PBS documentary film about a formerly incarcerated woman who is battling custody of her daughter(2017).

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Portrait Photographer
• Production Assistant
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Fixer
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Landscape Photographer
• Digital Content Creator

Michael Hull is a producer, director, and editor from New York City, relocated to Portland, Oregon. His feature documentary BETRAYAL AT ATTICA premiered on HBOMax on August 1, 2021. He was a producer on the film WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES, distributed by Independent Lens in 2024. He was awarded a Pulitzer Center grant in October, 2024 to cover the Georgian parliamentary elections for MSNBC's Ali Velshi show from Tbilisi, Georgia. Hull was the lead video producer for the Fusion Media Group election unit in 2015/16, and was an editor at CBS News from 2010-2015. As the owner of Fifth Column Films he has produced videos for the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control, Yahoo!/Telemundo, The Critical Press, CBS News Digital, Putumayo World Music, and many others.

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

Starting my television production career in Austin, TX in 1997, and after 20 years of television production experience, it's taught me one very valuable lesson: that THIS business is very unpredictable. That unpredictability is what keeps it exciting and drives me to each project. Shooting and editing promotional marketing packages, athletic highlight reels, behind the scenes, mini-docs and shooting on location, I excel at the "run & gun" ENG style shooting, adapting to many different situations and locations. Editing under tight deadlines and being a one-man band, from the first day of shooting to the final delivery is what I excel. Equipped with the latest technology for video, sound and editing, when you need it produced, shot and edited--hire ASF SHOOTS.

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

Alyse Young is a freelance visual journalist based in Seattle, WA. She is a graduate of the photojournalism program at Western Kentucky University where she worked two years as the video editor for the College Heights Herald and held a leadership position in the campus chapter of the National Press Photographers Association. Most recently she worked as an intern and temp for NPR Music's video team. She has also interned for Kertis, a creative agency in Louisville, KY, Josiah Venture in Central and Eastern Europe and Rustic Pathways in Costa Rica. Her work has been recognized by The Hearst Journalism Awards, College Photographer of the Year and the Kentucky News Photographers Association.

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

Curran is a documentary & commercial director & DoP based in Seattle. He is also the Creative Director and Co-Founder of Wildly, a Seattle-based commercial and documentary production company. A spirit for unique stories and visceral moments has brought me around the world and back - living in floating fishing villages on the East China Sea, documenting microbiologists traversing underground cave systems in British Columbia, accompanying the New Zealand women’s soccer team to the FIFA Women’s World Cup. I was born and raised outside of Boston, MA - and no - I do not have the accent. When the cameras are busy charging, you might find me jumping out of airplanes, getting my hands dirty in the Pacific Northwest backcountry, or pitching a tent under the stars with my dog, Benji.

• Documentary DP
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Production Company
• Drone Operator
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant
• Non-Fiction Film Director

Chris Janjic is a cinematographer who specializes in non-fiction storytelling. He is based in Portland, OR. He formerly worked as a staff director of photography at Blue Chalk Media, where he contributed to projects that earned recognition from the Northwest Regional Emmys, the AIB, Communicator, Telly, W3 and Webby Awards, among others. Clients include HBO, Discovery+, Magnolia Network, Food Network, Wondrium, Coca-Cola, Gillette, Realtor.com, Jacobs Solutions and Pearson. Chris began his career in film working as Associate Producer on Jay Myself, which went on to premiere at DocNYC. He received his B.S. in Photojournalism at Syracuse University and is an alum of the Eddie Adams and Mountain Workshops.

• Production Company
• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Drone Operator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Gaffer
• Grip
• Corporate Videographer

Dylan is a Cinematographer and Photographer in Seattle,Washington. Dylan has a decade’s worth of experience in the commercial photography industry, shooting both in studio and on location. Dylan is known for his ability to use light and composition to convey mood and emotion. His work has a natural and relaxed feel with a strong sense of narrative. Dylan likes to collaborate with his clients to develop their visions and tell their stories. When he is not behind a camera (which is not often), Dylan can be found riding his bike long distances, reading history books with a glass of whiskey, or traveling the world with his wife.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP

I am currently a full time video producer at Oregon Food Bank but I take on freelance projects as my schedule permits. I have several years of experience in news and documentary production, post-production and video editing. I previously worked as a freelance video producer for Reuters in Los Angeles, covering everything from protests to elections, immigration news and, of course, the entertainment industry. I also have several years of experience in documentary and personal narrative work. I have a master's degree in journalism from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. I speak English, Spanish and French fluently and have a basic understanding of Portuguese.

• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Production Assistant
• Translator
• Reporter / Journalist
• Fixer

Ken Christensen is an award-winning producer, cinematographer, writer, and editor working in documentary filmmaking and digital storytelling. He has been making short films for editorial and commercial clients for the past decade. His work has appeared in the pages and programs of National Public Radio, PBS Newshour and Digital Studios, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Vox Media, ProPublica and public media outlets across the U.S. Pacific Northwest, where he's based. His video work has also been recognized by industry honors including an Edward R. Murrow award and five Emmy awards. Learn more about Ken at www.ken-christensen.com, and watch his production reel at https://vimeo.com/418311332.

• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• TV News Producer
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Fixer
• Commercial DP
• Production Assistant
• Drone Operator
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Digital Content Creator

Director, shooter, and editor, passionate about telling stories of people-powered solutions for creating a healthier and more just world. With over five years experience as a one-man operation traveling abroad to produce short documentaries for the United Nations and other international NGO’s, I am fluent in every stage of production, from storyboarding and concepting, to filming, and all stages of post production. I've also directed several short narratives, winning some festival awards, and have served as lead editor on short narratives in the festival circuit.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Creative Director
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

Kjell Redal is a director, cinematographer, and photojournalist whose work revolves around outdoor adventure and social issues. He was a photojournalist at The Seattle Times and studied visual journalism in college before pivoting to commercial and documentary film production. Kjell's past clients including the National Geographic Channel, NASA, and Netflix. He specializes in drone imagery, frequently incorporating the unique angles in his work. Kjell resides in his hometown, Boulder, Colorado, but previously lived in five different countries and four US states.

• Production Company
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Creative Director
• Drone Operator
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Sound Designer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Commercial DP
• Production Assistant
• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer