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I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 1976 with a BA degree in psychology. I began my filmmaking career in 1977 after completing the Professional Filmmaker’s Workshop at NYU in the summer of 1977. It was the summer of Son of Sam and the big New York Blackout. It all made for a very memorable summer in my life. I returned to North Carolina and begin pursuing my career. Over the past 32 years I have had the pleasure and opportunity to act as Director of Photography on four regional Emmy winning documentaries and several others that received prestigious awards. I have traveled to and worked in 35 different states and over twenty countries on five continents. On a trip to Kenya I had the opportunity to photograph wild animals roaming about the Masai Mara National Reserve, while there to document the installation of a swinging bridge over a river to help the Masai villagers travel safely during rainy seasons. In India we visited and documented the Banjara Tribe, a nomadic tribe known for their colorful celebrations. I have also traveled to Zambia, South Africa, Jordan, Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia, Nepal and Tibet where I have had the opportunity to photograph many indigenous peoples any many compelling stories of life in other cultures. In the last few years I have concentrated on long form documentaries that explore various people’s cultures and how those cultures are intertwined with society in general. Below is a complete list of feature length documentaries I have served on. The passion for my vocation has grown steadily throughout my career and remains with me to this day.

• Documentary DP
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• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Motion Graphics Designer

Great work, at affordable prices , Corporate , Conferences ,Commercials , Interviews . Please go my web site to see the Quality of my Video work at my web site bigdogvideoproductions.com My IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1425490/ I have Offices in the D.C area , Richmond , Raleigh and Norfolk We offer field production and post production. We have produced everything from Corporate and Commercials to Conference videos to full feature films. and TV shows I have a full crew audio, lighting and a grip production van if needed. I also have editors, producers and even an actor list. I like the idea that we can work on just about any project Big Or Small and different Production needs and have the ability to do the job and work within The customers budget to make there idea a reality and to deliver On time and on budget , i think is what makes it interesting hope to hear from you , and have a grate day.

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• HD Live Operator
• Full-Service Live Production

As a freelancer, some of Randall’s projects have included work with Bloomberg, Discovery, National Geographic, PBS, Essence Magazine, Kaiser Family Foundation, National Institute of Health, NASA, Lexis Nexis, Nationwide, the Raben Group, and Martha’s Table in DC. In addition to freelancing, Randall has worked as a Multimedia Producer at the Voice of America since 2012. Randall’s experience in storytelling began at The College of William and Mary, where he attained his BA in Literary and Cultural Studies: Film. Upon graduating, Randall continued at William and Mary, consulting with students and faculty members from different disciplines to enhance the learning and teaching experience through the use of various multimedia tools, and taught classes on the proper use of multimedia equipment and editing software. Randall attended American University where he worked toward an MA degree. His work has taken him to all parts of the U.S. as well as India, Kenya, Guatemala, Pakistan, France, and the U.K.

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• Drone Operator
• Field Producer
• Grip
• Gaffer
• Fixer
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• Colorist
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Senior Editor
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• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
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My name is William Castro and I am based in Washington, DC. I am a freelance videographer and editor with full camera gear (Sony Fx9/FX6/FS7 ii with Canon and Sony lenses, wireless mic, light kits and Mac laptop editor). I have more than 18 years of experience, mostly working with national and international tv networks (Aljazeera International, Univision, VICE News, ABC Australia, TRT World). Some of my work experience includes covering the Dallas police shootings, the 2017 Mexico City earthquake, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria, Hurricane Harvey, the Las Vegas shooting, the Sutherland Springs shooting, and investigative stories. I am an operator of ENG and cinematic cameras. I have a lot of experience working with Adobe Premiere. I can perform live shots using Dejero, BGAN, Live-u, AviWest, Fiber and truck transmissions/operations. I can feed PKGS and elements using FTP and Media Shuttle, Aspera, wetransfer and more. I am a bilingual Spanish-speaker and I am comfortable with deployments around the US and other countries. I am very easy to work with in any environment and under pressure.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
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• Video Editor - News
• HD Live Operator
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Fixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Corporate Videographer
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Matt Rhodes is an award-winning freelance cinematographer and photographer who has collaborated with a wide range of NGOs & News Agencies and production houses including The New York Times, Apple, The Washington Post, AJ+, TIME, Change.org, McClatchy, CQ Roll Call, Institute for War & Peace Reporting, Wayamo Foundation, Engangered Species Coalition, WOLA and SideXSide Studios. Matt has covered a wide range of subjects, from live music showcases at SXSW to international criminal justice and environmental issues in East and West Africa. In 2013, his three-person team received an Emmy for their short documentary filmed on the West Side of Chicago, Flipping the Script.  In 2014, the film was awarded First Place by the Illinois Press Photographer's Association in the Student Best of Multimedia category. In 2015, Matt's team at SideXSide Studios produced one of the most successful Op-Docs in The New York Times' history, Transgender: At War and in Love. The film was nominated for a nation Emmy and awarded First Place for Best Documentary by the White House News Photographer's Association.  The Op-Doc has since been made into a feature-length film, “TransMilitary,” and won the 2018 Audience Award at SXSW! Before receiving his MS from Medill, Matt received his BA and MA in philosophy, focusing on ethics, political philosophy & global justice.

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

Zack Baddorf is a military veteran with 10 years of video, radio, print, photo and web reporting in more than 30 countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the West Bank, Kashmir, and Iraq, as well as rebel-held territory in Sri Lanka and Burma. Most recently, Baddorf spent a year working as a civilian videographer for the U.S. special forces command in Afghanistan.Based in Brooklyn, Baddorf has produced award-winning radio, video, photo, print and web content for NPR, BBC, AP, the Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times, and other international publications. He also served for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Romania and worked for a year for an international non-governmental organization in South Sudan doing media development. He served in the U.S. military for five years as a journalist, reporting from across Asia and the Middle East. He's got master's in international relations and a bachelor's in journalism. He shoots in 4K on a GH4, C300 and 360 degree video.

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• Video Editor - News
• Fixer
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• On-Air Reporter / Host
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• News Shooter / Video Journalist
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• TV News Producer
• Production Company
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Drone Operator
• Field Producer
• Audio Storyteller

After a career change out of the accounting field in 2005, Kasey transitioned into working as a cinematographer and editor after completing his graduate degree in film/video from American University. Kasey’s experience has crossed genre platforms and spanned the globe having shot films in over 20 countries. With experience on a wide range of productions from TV to feature length documentaries, his interest revolves around seeking truth in compelling stories anywhere in the world and bringing them to the forefront of audiences. Kasey has worked as an editor/DP on numerous National Geographic and Discovery shows, as well as having worked as DP/editor on over 15 feature films that have shown on numerous outlets including PBS, Netflix, etc. He has worked with various international organizations from the UN to various smaller NGO's around the world. Kasey has served on the jury of numerous film festivals in the documentary category and currently splits time between Liberia and DC.

• Video Editor - News
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• Video Editor - Commercial

Zac Gooch is a storyteller. He doesn't use a pen or paper. He uses raw moments and moving pictures to weave a tale that can only be told through the lens. At the age of 17, Zac started shooting at WVIR in Charlottesville, VA. During his time there, he learned the basics of photography. He covered hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods. He was there when the Queen of England came to visit Virginia. He also traveled to New Orleans to cover the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. In 2008, Zac decided to take a job at KTUU in Anchorage, AK. While working in Alaska Zac had the opportunity to travel and cover major news events like global warming near the Arctic Circle and Governor Sarah Palin's Vice Presidential bid. At the end of 2010 Zac moved with his wife to Bakersfield, CA and took a job as a staff photographer at KBAK. While working in California,Zac helped produce a half hour special called When Kern Burned. It won an Edward R Murrow, NPPA Best Documentary runner up, and two Emmy a

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JP Collins is an Associate Professor in GW Law’s Fundamentals of Lawyering Program, and has been a member of the faculty since July 2020. Professor Collins is regularly interviewed and quoted about judicial nomination developments by leading media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, the Los Angeles Times, the National Law Journal, the New York Law Journal, HuffPost, Reuters, Bloomberg Law, and Law360. He has also appeared on the NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy’s Laws Flaws podcast. In addition to teaching legal practice, Professor Collins's research interests include judicial nominations and court administration and reform. His scholarship has been published in the SMU Law Review Forum and the Fordham Urban Law Journal and cited in the Northwestern Law Review, the NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, the Washington & Lee Law Review Online, The Los Angeles Times, published federal court opinions, and briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Dilshad D. Ali is the Blog and Content Editor of The Haute Take, the media arm of Haute Hijab, which covers all things pertaining to Muslim women. Prior to Haute Hijab, Ms. Ali was the managing editor of Patheos Muslim at Patheos.com and the editor of Altmuslim, a microsite at Patheos, where she managed a team of nearly 30 columnists, contributors and bloggers, as well as blogging on the intersection of faith, family and autism at The Muslimah Next Door. She has covered Muslims and Islam in America for more than 20 years for a variety of media outlets, including The Atlantic, The New York Times, Religion News Service, Islam-Online.net (before it became About Islam), Newsweek, Azizah Magazine, Illume Magazine, Islamica magazine and Beliefnet. Ms. Ali has appeared on CNN, MTV, NPR. She has expertise in editing, reporting, writing, managing teams of writers and journalists, project management, social media campaigns and more.

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• Senior Editor

Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon is the executive director of Churches for Middle East Peace and an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). Cannon holds an MDiv from North Park Theological Seminary, an MBA from North Park University’s School of Business and Nonprofit Management, and an MA in bioethics from Trinity International University. She received her first doctorate in American History with a minor in Middle Eastern studies at the University of California (Davis) focusing on the history of the American Protestant church in Israel and Palestine and her second doctorate in Ministry in Spiritual Formation from Northern Theological Seminary. She is the author of several books including the award-winning Social Justice Handbook: Small Steps for a Better World and editor of A Land Full of God: Christian Perspectives on the Holy Land. Her work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Chicago Tribune, Christianity Today, Leadership Magazine...

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Professor Ziyad Motala Ziyad Motala is a Professor of law at Howard University School of Law. He served as an Honorary Professor of Law at the University Of Western Cape School Of Law in South Africa. Prior to his teaching at Howard, he also taught at Northwestern Law School as an adjunct law professor and a visiting professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Motala is a native of Durban, South Africa, and was active in the struggle for liberation in South Africa. He received his B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Natal (South Africa). He has an LL.M. and an SJ.D degree from Northwestern University in Chicago. He is an authority on international law, constitutional law, and comparative law. He served for eight years as the Director of the Graduate Studies Program at Howard University School of Law and currently serves as the Director of the Howard South Africa Summer Abroad Program, which he initiated. He has delivered papers and keynote speeches at numerous conferences all over the world. He served as the coordinator of a one week seminar on the Protection of Human Rights in Africa conducted by the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences Conference in Conjunction with the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Bureau, and the United Nations Center for Human Rights. He has written extensively in his areas of interest. Motala is the co-author of Constitutional Law Analysis and Cases with Cyril Ramaphosa the current President of the Republic of South Africa and former Chairman of the Constitutional Assembly of South Africa. He has also authored Constitutional Options For a Democratic South Africa: a Comparative Perspective. He has co-edited, The Protection of Human Rights in African Criminal Proceedings with M.C. Bassiouni. He also produced the following casebooks Constitutional Law Cases: The Structure of Government and more recently Constitutional Law Cases: Equal Protection and Fundamental Rights. He is the author of over seventy law review/journal, op-ed pieces or books. He is actively involved in projects pertaining to legal reform and administration of justice in various parts of the world.

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Umud is a Washington-based senior foreign policy and energy geopolitics advisor and author of US Energy Diplomacy in the Caspian Sea Basin: Changing Trends Since 2001. He has served as a visiting research scholar at the Center for Energy Science and Policy (CESP), an initiative of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, and is an advisor at Gulf State Analytics (GSA), a Washington-based geopolitical risk consultancy. Umud holds a Ph.D. in International Relations. He comes with extensive expertise and professional experience in global energy market studies, energy security, the geopolitics of climate change, industrial policy for clean energy, as well as foreign policy in the context of climate change and energy transition. His primary research interests lie in energy diplomacy and energy transition, U.S. energy policy, the geopolitics of energy, Iran-Turkey relations, as well as Iran-Russia relations, the Caspian Sea region, Central Asia and the GCC. He has written about the geopolitics of energy and natural gas, political economy of hydrocarbon states, sustainable cities and mobility, the pace and trajectory of energy transition, the geopolitics of US sanctions against Iran oil exports, and the geopolitics of energy in Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East, Central Asia, and Caspian Sea Region. Umud has published numerous articles in various journals, including Energy & Environment, Energy Intelligence, Middle East Policy, National Interest, Attaqa, Oil & Gas Journal, Atlantic Council, Gulf International Forum, Jamestown Foundation, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan Publishing, among others. A frequently sought-after expert, he has appeared in international media outlets, such as Aljazeera, Sky News Arabia, Asharq News, Deutsche Welle, ANews, BBC Persian, Iran International TV, and others.

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Dr. Ma Haiyun is associate professor of Frostburg State University's Department of History. He is also the president of Zhenghe Forum that focuses on China-Muslim world relations. His scholarly work examines the history of Islam in China, as well as China’s relations with the Islamic world. His articles, reviews, and opinion have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Late Imperial China, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, China Brief, and others. He is often sought by news outlets for commentaries on China, Asia, or Middle East topics, and has been quoted or interviewed by the Washington Post, New York Times, BBC, The Nation, Lianhe Zaobao, Deutsche Welle, Associated Press, The Independent, PBS, PTV, and others.

• Reporter / Journalist

Cliff Hackel is an award-winning producer/director/editor with over 25 years of documentary experience. His well-rounded skill set transcends the boundaries of job descriptions. Hackel has led international teams, been both an innovator and mentor, and performed nearly every job in television production at the highest professional level. Hackel has edited six shows that were winners of the National News and Documentary Emmy awards. In 2007, as a producer/director/editor, he was awarded a George Foster Peabody award and an Alfred I. DuPont award for CNN’s “God’s Warriors,” hosted by Christiane Amanpour. Hackel’s shows have appeared on CNN, PBS, ABC, CBS, National Geographic Television and Discovery Channel.

• Video Editor - Documentary
• Creative Director

Thirty years of experience in journalism, TV production, editorial, photojournalism, and operations management. My portfolio with various news agencies, newspapers, magazines, and multimedia websites contains works from Iran, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. • I’m able to communicate with individuals from diverse backgrounds and use my wide range of experience and detailed knowledge from political, economic, and social situations in the broadcast area as well as international affairs reporting. • I’ve worked in a multicultural and multinational environment and have experienced living and working abroad in areas such as the Middle East, Europe, and North America.

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• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
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• Post-Production Manager
• Portrait Photographer
• Sound Mixer
• Content Strategist
• TV News Producer
• Series Producer / Show Runner

A resourceful and dedicated videographer, editor and producer with eleven years' experience in feature filmmaking, short form video, video journalism and the creation of online content. Passionate about documentary media and strategic storytelling efforts across all technological platforms. Specialties: documentary production, video production and post-production, videography, editing, production studio management, lighting, project management/coordination, social media strategy, online content, Final Cut Studio and Adobe Creative Suite, tapeless workflow, DSLR cameras, troubleshooting technology and finding creative solutions

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• Video Editor - News
• Fixer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Production Company
• Sound Mixer
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant
• Corporate Videographer
• Drone Operator
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Post-Production Manager
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Gaffer
• Grip
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
• HD Live Operator
• Full-Service Live Production
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
• Reporter / Journalist
• Copywriter
• Copy Editor
• Audio Storyteller

Full-time reality TV researcher and part-time documentary filmmaker living in San Francisco. I recently completed an MFA program in multimedia design. For my thesis, I directed and produced a 30-minute documentary, which premiered at the 2013 Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival. It profiled four people living with terminal cancer, and they hope they dare to have for the future. Since then I have produced a second short film, The Crossmaker, that premiered at the 2014 San Francisco Documentary Film Festival. This short film explores the intersection of one man's devotion to art and spirituality.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary

I'm a two time Emmy-nominated filmmaker with over a decade of experience, predominantly in non-fiction film and television. I directed and produced his first feature documentary by traveling the world with only a backpack and a Canon DSLR camera. That film, Raise Up: The World is Our Gym won “Best of the Fest” at the Hip Hop Film Festival and received global distribution through Red Bull Media House. I've produced work for Travel Channel, Sportsman’s Channel and Redbull TV, been featured in Huffington Post, Men's Health, and other national media, and I choose to focus on telling stories of subcultures rooted in health, history, sports, and social issues.

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I'm an independent multimedia reporter covering stories worldwide. My writing, photography and films have appeared in Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, VICE News, Smithsonian Magazine and others. GEAR Canon EOS C100 Cinema Camera Canon EOS 60D Canon 35mm f/2 IS USM Canon 16-35mm f/4 L IS USM Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Rode NTG2 Condenser Shotgun Microphone Sennheiser ew 112-p G3 Camera-Mount Wireless Microphone System with ME2 Lavalier Mic Rode VideoMic Pro Compact Directional On-Camera Microphone Kessler Crane Pocket Dolly v2.0 BASIC Mini Benro S4 Video Head Induro Alloy 8M Tripod Macbook Pro 13' Final Cut Pro Adobe Creative Cloud

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