Discover Top News Shooters / Video Journalists in Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador

Daniel is a seasoned multimedia journalist specializing in news gathering for press agencies and international media. With extensive experience in hostile environments in Colombia and Ecuador, he has freelanced for top-tier outlets such as Reuters TV, Reuters Photo, Playboy Magazine, AJPlus, Al Jazeera Arabic, NTN24, CNN, Christophorus Magazine (Porsche), Associated Press, and more over the past decade. As a versatile professional, Daniel has also contributed to documentaries for HIAS - UNICEF. Some of his notable stories include "The 2016 earthquake that shook the coast of Ecuador," ongoing coverage of the Tungurahua volcano eruption since 2000, and "The attempted coup by unruly police officers in Ecuador in 2010." Equipped with the latest technology, including satellite devices, drones, teleprompters, and safety gear, Daniel is prepared to swiftly capture breaking news, reports, and documentaries across the continent.

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Seasoned journalistic producer and camerawoman with 20 years as a news correspondent, specializing in hostile environments. My work has been commissioned by BBC, CNN, Reuters, and United Nations agencies, among others. Now focused on social issues, I bring expertise in migration and humanitarian crises, managing sensitive topics with empathy, ethics, and professionalism to create impactful narratives. I have expertise leading teams of more than 100 people worldwide.

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South American documentary filmmaker and lawyer focused on human rights, environmental issues and artistic storytelling. I worked as an associate producer for a intl news organisation in Washington, D.C. and then obtained my Master of Arts in documentary and factual film in Berlin, where I have directed several short documentaries and fiction projects.

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I am an Ecuadorian filmmaker, grew up in Quito and have always developed a special love towards the history of this city and this country. I studied film and audiovisual studies in Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada. My first oficial short-film was released in the year 2014 and since then , I have being working as a Director, director of photography and editor in the Colombian / Ecuadorian region. In 2016 Estudio Trementina was founded, an independent production studio witch I created with 2 colleagues. Estudio Trementina has c=become one symbolic studio in ecuador because of the artistic content we create and because it has focused on cultural videos in its majority. I have produced videos for Art Galleries, Museums, Theatres and music festivals in Quito and Guayaquil. 2020 and 2021 I have worked as cinematographer and editor for a docu-series about the music scene of Ecuador. this last year I participated as cinematographer of an international interview with alJazeera about a Bolivian robot designer who works with recycled material i filmed a interviewsDirected more than 50 music videos and have being director of photography of of more than 20 episodes of different cultural short-documentaries . EQUIPMENT BLACK MAGIC POKET 6KPRO / SONY ALPHA R2 / DRONE PHANTOM 4 / MANFROTO TRIPOD / LED LIGHT KIT / MICROPHONE ZOOM H5 AND ZOOM H3

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Bernarda Cornejo, DOP and Fixer. Since 2019, she has worked as a cinematographer for the feature length documentary “among us women I በኛ በሴቶች መካከል” directed by Sarah Noa Bozenhardt and co directed by Daniel Abate Tilahun that tells the story of midwives in rural Ethiopia. It premiered in Dok Leipzig 2021 where it won a mention under the international competition. She has also worked as a DOP for other short films including Medanit (Dok Leipzig 2015) and El Sagrado Fuego de los Muertos (2021). She also worked as the second camera unit for Magical Andes (screened in Netflix). She is living and based in Quito, Ecuador since 2015 and has worked as a Fixer for multiple projects for Tambo films including: Earth Form Space (BBC), Volcano 24 (True to Nature - for BBC2), Terra X-Off the Road (Spiegel TV - for ZDF), The Sound of Tiink (research phases for Ostinanto Cine). She studied Audiovisual Arts at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada. In 2015, he made the stop motion short film Aguacero that premiered at the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF 2015).

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Soy un hombre negro, feliz y nacido en la ciudad de Esmeraldas, al norte de Ecuador. Tengo 43 años y desde los 20 mis amigos me dicen Manolo, aunque mi nombre de pila es: Manuel Gonzales Quiñónez. El apodo se origina porque desde esa edad me junté con las cámaras fotográficas y coloqué en mi ciudad un estudio fotográfico. A los 4 años de creado ese espacio, fui contratado por Diario La Hora, regional Esmeraldas, para que sea su reporto gráfico donde trabajé hasta el 2020. Durante ese periodo recorrí los 7 cantones de la provincia de Esmeraldas y algunos de la provincia de Manabí, en Ecuador, no solo como fotógrafo, sino que, con el paso de los años, como reportero; los reportes están con la firma de MGQ. Entre las coberturas de más impacto estuvieron el terremoto del 16 abril del 2016, las migraciones generadas por el conflicto armado en Colombia que desplazaba a colombianos hasta Esmeraldas, también cubrí periodísticamente temas inseguridad como la minería ilegal, y en simultáneo fui coautor del libro: Periferias Crónicas del Ecuador invisible. En ese andar estuve en la Universidad San Francisco de Quito, donde fui ponente del “Congreso Internacional Periodismo en Debate con el tema: Emprendimiento mediático desde la frontera norte”, además ganador del concurso de periodismo de frontera, categoría permanencia, realizado en el 2021. Un año antes, en el 2020, creé y fundé la plataforma nativa digital Relatos Esmeraldeños, en la que voy relatando de forma inclusiva, positiva y reivindicativa la historia de quienes viven en la frontera norte del Ecuador, con énfasis los de la provincia de Esmeraldas, que tiene la mayor población de afroecuatorianos del Ecuador. Gracias a Relatos Esmeraldeños, en abril del 2022 gané en el concurso internacional de medio nativos digitales organizado por SembraMedia y la Embajada de Estados Unidos en la que valoraban los contenidos, innovaciones ajustadas a las normas periodísticas y con narrativas digital. Actualmente divido mi tiempo entre la realización de reportajes para Relatos Esmeraldeños y la colaboración con personas como ustedes que me buscan para colaborar en conjunto en sus ideas periodísticas o audiovisuales que desean realizar en provincias como Esmeraldas o en cualquier otro lado del Ecuador y el mundo, ese soy yo: Manolo o Manuel Gonzales. Nota: Los enlaces de todo lo narrado está en el website: https://acortar.link/ipBfhd

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Latin American filmmaker based in Ecuador. MFA in Social Documentary Film by the School of Visual Arts of New York. My interests include social issues, cultural diversity, gender equality, climate change, indigenous communities, among others. I have directed and produced documentary films in Ecuador, Bolivia and the United States. I have experience covering rallies and demonstrations in video and photography.

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As a highly-motivated journalist and videomaker, I have been reporting on international news, development, human rights and environment in Latin America and Italy since 2012. My bylines include digital outlets and news agencies such as: AlJazeera.com, El País, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Vice, Narratively and Ruptly. As far as Italy is regarded, my work has been featured on prominent media such as Repubblica TV, L'Espresso, Internazionale and Linkiesta. These experiences have enabled me to take care of the whole video production process, so I am used to script, shoot and edit my packages and documentaries independently. Since 2014 I have been focusing on online videos and interactive journalistic formats, and for this work I was awarded an Innovation in Development reporting grant and a King of Spain Honorable mention. In addition to Italian, I have professional proficiency in Spanish and English. I am currently based in Rome, where I hold a position as video producer at the Italian Parliament. However, I like to consider myself always open to new exciting and innovative projects, should they arise. I believe that good journalism has to be found on the streets, talking face to face with people and looking for the other side of a story. This is what I believe I can produce for Storyhunter.

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Currently he works as a freelance director, cameraman, editor and colorist, for NGOs and for television channels or film production companies. He has produced as an independent his own documentaries, which most of them were based on Andean lands, like OTRA VEZ (2008), EL RING Y SUS TITANES (2010), which has been shown in numerous festivals in Buenos Aires, Austin (Texas), Belo Horizonte, Milano, Bologna, Oxaca. He was the co-author with Claudio Metallo e Nicola Grignani of UN PAGAMU. LA TASSA SULLA PAURA, a winning award reportage about pizzo, the mafia taxes at Lamezia Terme, Calabria. During the protest of 2011, he has filmed the documentary INDIGNADOS.HOW A PROTEST IS BORN, about the demonstrations in Barcelona, Spain which has been shown during the LIDF London International Documentary Festival 2012. In Peru he directed the documentary ALPAQUEROS DE APURIMAC, that has been shown in theaters at DocInTour, in Emila Romagna, Italy, and COOPERATIVAS DE APURIMAC, co-produced by GVC and Los Andes Cooperative, selected for the closing ceremony of the International Year of the Cooperatives, at IYC Short Film Festival in the United Nations Headquarters, New York, in November 2012. CUENTOS DE ALPAQUEROS (TALES OF ALPAQUEROS) was selected in the Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival. Between 2012 and 2018 produce y direct various documentaries: TEACHING MICROCREDIT (Bangladesh, Mozambique, Ecuador, Tunisia, Italia 2014) PASTORES ANDINOS (Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Italia 2015) TJAMPARANJANI! (Mozambique, Italia 2016) CHIPAYA. LA GENTE DE AGUA (Chipaya. The People of Water) (Bolivia, 2016) TIERRA ESPERANZA (Ecuador, 2017) RAICES DE LUCHA (Ecuador, 2018) https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3554434/?ref_=tt_ov_dr

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Filmmaker. Documentaries, corporate, branded content, adventure.

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Journalist with 20 years of experience in local and foreign television networks.

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Social communicator for development with experience in media and communication agencies focusing on socio-environmental issues. A creator and caretaker of urban gardens, enthusiastic about wildlife and conservation efforts.

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20 años de experiencia en el mundo de las noticias camarógrafo editor me apasiona el video contar historias con mis imágenes noticias políticas , crónica roja ,documental, social

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Audiovisual producer, director and editor from Ecuador. Filmmaker by profession, master's degree in Media Studies from The New School, NY. 10 years of experience recording and taking photos. I have directed and produced various videos for the internet and big screens. During the first 5 years of my experience I dedicated myself to recording music videos. Then I dedicated myself more to the production of political and web content. I did a master's degree from 2018 to 2020 in NY. Now I also work with Touche Films, a major production company in the country. Last year I directed a food reality show called "Ahora te toca a ti" and now I am editing the Behind the Scenes (material that I also recorded) for the film Misfit. My undergraduate thesis project was a documentary that is uploaded on my YouTube channel. For many years I did a lot with a small equipment . I think the important thing is the image and the story, not the fancy equipment.But, now I have my own good equipment. I care a lot about image and story, I feel confortable interviewing people . A year ago I started operating drones. I have been involved in more than a hundred of project. You can check my work in my webpage.

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Misha Vallejo was born in 1985 in Riobamba, Ecuador. He is a documentary storyteller whose work focuses in Latin America and Europe. In 2014 he completed his MA in Documentary Photography at the University of the Arts London.   Among other distinctions, he won the 2020 Documentary Production Funds of the Ecuadorian Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Creation for his first documentary feature film. Also, he has won the Goethe Institut and Prince Claus Fund for Cultural and Artistic Response for Environmental Change (Germany & Netherlands, 2018), the Photo Europe Network Prize at the PhotOn Festival in Valencia (Spain, 2018), he was selected for the Docking Station artist-in-residence program in two occasions (Netherlands, 2019 and 2020) and won the Ecuadorian National Arts Prize Mariano Aguilera (2015).   In 2016 he published his first photobook Al Otro Lado (Editora Madalena, Sao Paulo), which was selected among the best author photobooks at the Rencontres de la Photographie festival in 2016 (France), obtained the only honorable mention at the prize Felifa-Fola (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and was selected as the best photography book in Brazil in that same year, among many other international distinctions. In 2018, Spanish publishing house RM released his second photobook Siete punto Ocho, which won an honorable mention at the contest Pictures of The Year Latin America 2019 and was featured at the Athens Photo Fest (Greece, 2019). Recently, the same publishing house released his third book Secret Sarayaku, which is part of a transmedia documentary project that also includes an interactive web platform www.secretsarayaku.net and an exhibition. Among others, his personal work has been shown at the LUMIX Festival of Young Visual Journalism (Hannover, Germany 2020), Bronx Documentary Center (New York, USA, 2018), at the Rencontres de la Photographie festival (Arles, France, 2018), at the Budapest Photo Festival (Hungary, 2019), at the International Photography Festival of Valdivia (Chile, 2019) and in several solo exhibitions throughout Latin America and Europe. His editorial and personal work has been published in such media like The New York Times Lens, VICE, GEO, Marie Claire, Esquire and many others. He has given talks and workshops in photography and audiovisual storytelling in Latin America and Europe, a highlight of which was his participation at the 3rd Latin American Colloquium of Photography in Mexico City, 2018.   Currently he is based in Ecuador and works in film and photography throughout Latin America and Europe.

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I am Ramiro Aguilar Villamarín (Quito, Ecuador – 1985), visual anthropologist, social communicator and journalist, specialized in video and photography. Since 2014 I have worked as a videographer, photographer and reporter for national media and Hispanic-American digital portals, summing up numerous published works. By 2020 I am about to complete my master’s degree in research in visual anthropology where I have developed debates and works (written, photographic and audiovisual) on photography, cinema, memory, history, cultures, indigenous peoples and Amazonia. In addition to these topics, in my work I have approached the struggle of workers, social movements, human rights and migrations. My work and approach to the field of image and audiovisual, both in form and content, is based on strict humanitarian ethical principles. I seek to make evident the value or re-value the cases or human groups that I portrait, opposing any victimizing or discriminatory treatment nor approach. As well, I position myself critically on the traditional representations of minorities, excluded or marginalized groups. I am currently available for assignments mainly in the documentary field.

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Karen Toro - Documentary photographer, freelance visual journalist, artist, and educator. From a documentary and experimental practice, her work explores themes related to human rights, social justice, the environment, education, and gender. She has produced photo essays on euthanasia, incarcerated individuals, natural disasters, social protests, sexual violence, torture clinics for LGBTQ+ individuals, women's rights, national elections, and more. She has also documented rural communities opposing mining and oil extraction projects, as well as indigenous peoples fighting to reclaim their ancestral territories after being displaced by political conflicts. Karen is a member of the organizations Women Photograph, Diversify Photo, and the Fluxus Foto collective. She has served as producer for Johanna Alarcón's exhibition and book: "Cimarrona: soy negra porque el sol me miró" (Ecuador). She was also the editor of Daniel Merle's book "Mala memoria: diario de un fotógrafo" (Argentina). Recipient of the Jorge Mantilla Ortega Award in the Photojournalism category in 2020 and a finalist in 2022, she received the National Geographic Society Emergency Fund for Journalists grant in 2020 (Fluxus Foto), was a finalist for the 2019 Brazil Contemporary Art Award, was a fellow of the MUFF Caminos Conjuntos program 2020-2022 at the Center of Photography in Montevideo, Uruguay, and was a beneficiary of the Arts, Culture, and Innovation Promotion Fund in 2021. Karen has undergone HEFAT (Hostile Environment and First Aid Training) training conducted by Thomson Reuters and Key Objectives in Guatemala, 2022. She collaborates with international news agencies such as Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg, as well as with Diario El País, the digital feminist journalism magazine La Periódica, and has worked with foundations and non-governmental organizations such as Amazon Watch, Amazon Frontlines, Alianza Ceibo, UN Women, IOM, UNHCR, United Nations University, Junta de Beneficencia de Guayaquil, Plan International, GIZ, Conservation International, Teach for All Ecuador, and the Scalabrinian Mission of Ecuador.

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CoopDocs nace como una red de colaboración en la que se colectivizan los proyectos que cada uno trae consigo y colaborativamente se los viabilizan gracias a la experiencia, experticia y talentos específicos de sus integrantes, sin que la ubicación geográfica sea una limitante. Reconocemos al cooperativismo como el modo de gestión para la producción audiovisual comprometida con procesos sociales y comunitarios. Fomentamos un espacio de colaboración, a través del cual se puedan viabilizar muchos de nuestros proyectos individuales que han quedado estancados por falta de apoyos económicos, institucionales y sobre todo de tiempo y equipo humano. Mirando este elemento común, decidimos abrir un espacio en la periferia de la industria de la producción audiovisual comercial, gestionado directamente por los socios y socias y funcione como espacio de apoyo, colaboración, generación de recursos que permitan dignificar nuestro trabajo y apoye a la creación y difusión de materiales comunicacionales al servicio de organizaciones sociales, comunidades y causas sociales con las que nos identificamos. OBJETIVOS -Generar un espacio de crecimiento profesional y económico para los y las integrantes. (generación de ingresos que dignifiquen la labor profesional comprometida. -Apoyar comunicacionalmente a organizaciones sociales y comunidades para amplificar sus voces, luchas y procesos organizativos. -Aportar al fortalecimiento organizativo a partir de la formación y capacitación de los integrantes de organizaciones sociales y comunidades que se involucren en los procesos de producción comunicacional. -Aportar en la producción audiovisual, proyectos personales de los y las integrantes de la cooperativa, asi como tambien de proyectos en marcha de organizaciones sociales, ongs o procesos organizativos.

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