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Chinwe Oniah is a writer, journalist and visual storyteller based in the Bay Area who has written for Pigeons and Planes, California Magazine, Blavity and others. She's currently a video producer at KQED.

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Digital Media Producer with 15 years of hands on experience ranging from filmmaking to corporate video to event video to television. The years have pushed me into being a solid all-around type in film and video production, often serving as a camera op / DoP, AC, DIT, sound recordist / mixer, field manager and producer. However, my areas of focus are directing and editing, which allow me to shoot better with post in mind, as well as understand the process of vision and pull it all together. Can't be the master of all. But my diverse background allows me to see the big picture and get projects done, either as a lone wolf or as part of a team. For my production company, one studios, I often subcontract a wide array of dependable, experienced production professionals. So, if you're in need of a bigger team just let me know and I'll reach out to my network. For me, it's all about doing everything I can, including using my resources, to allow for a successful project. I'm currently based in San Francisco and often travel throughout Northern California for assignments. Travel to out of state, or even out of country, is not a problem....passport ready. I look forward to working with you! No matter the circumstances or how much of a challenge, let's get it done!....always with a good attitude. We're lucky to be doing this kind of work.

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Jim Granato is an award-winning filmmaker based in Oakland, California. Since 1996, he has directed and produced several short films and music videos. His recent films, A Day With My Boy: Slug War (2014), was licensed by PBS and premiered on their Online Film Festival, and Angels (2013) was nominated for a Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. He has made music videos for Sonny & The Sunsets, Rogue Wave, Ramon & Jessica, Pancho-San and The Bobbyteens. D Tour (2009), his first feature length film as director and producer, has won several awards including the Golden Gate Award for Bay Area Feature Documentary from the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Jury Prize for Best Documentary from the Bend Film Festival. D Tour premiered nationwide on the PBS Emmy award-winning program Independent Lens in November 2009. He is currently working on a second feature film project with underground "budget rock" legends, The Mummies. As a freelance Director, Producer, Videographer and Editor, Jim Granato has worked on projects for The History Channel, The Travel Channel, Court TV, Adobe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oakland Museum of California, The Exploratorium and dozens of independent filmmakers and organizations worldwide.

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Writer/director/cinematographer/editor. Originally from Málaga (Spain), Fran Guijarro is a multicultural creative director and filmmaker based in San Francisco, CA. He started his career as a junior copywriter at Proximity BBDO Spain, where he was promoted to Associate Creative Director at age 24, after contributing multiple DMA Echo, John Caples and El Sol awards to the most awarded direct marketing agency in the world in 2003 and 2006. In 2007, supported by laCaixa Full Scholarship Program, he arrived in San Francisco to complete an MFA in Copywriting at the Academy of Art University. Fran was nominated for Valedictorian, graduated with Cum Laude honors and was selected as “Copywriter of the Year” on two occasions, as a result of taking honors at D&AD, Clio and Addy awards. In 2009, he landed an internship at Venables Bell & Partners, and then a job as an Associate Creative Director at the A-List multicultural ad agency, Alma DDB. There, he worked for The Clorox Company and McDonald’s accounts. During his four years at Alma, Fran also taught at the Academy of Art University. After 13 years making ads, Fran felt like sprinkling his love for storytelling across films, too. So he went to study EICTV (International School of Film and TV) in Cuba. His short films 'Mexican Cuisine' and 'The Mural' have been screened at over 100 film festivals worldwide, including Cannes SFC, AFI Fest and several other Oscar-qualifying festivals, and have received 26 awards. He is currently working on his first feature-length documentary titled 'Moses', a project supported by SF FILM, formerly know as the San Francisco Film Society. Fran has also spoken at Creative Mornings and TEDx San Francisco, and he's a part-time instructor at the Academy of Art University.

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Experienced Emmy-award-winning photojournalist with an artistic eye who thrives in fast-paced, high-pressure, high-energy working environment of TV news and internet broadcasting. Demonstrated success setting up and executing a wide range of work for multiple shows and web platforms, meeting deadlines, and troubleshooting as problems arise. Versatile self-starter and multitasker who works quickly and efficiently on independent shoots and as a key team player. Reputation for quality production and portfolio that includes daily news packages, live shots, special reports, and sports including Warriors, Giants, and Raiders highlights. Content seeker with strong work ethic and positive attitude. Strategic vision for unplanned breaking news events. Recognized proficiency at in-camera editing, enabling ease for reporters and producers to log, and transition to raw video over various platforms, including social media. Accustomed to all news environments.

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Monterey Peninsula-native cinema camera operator/owner since 2014 with extensive experience as 2nd camera/BTS camera on docs, docu-reality, fashion, narrative films, and lead producer of many live video events. Owner of camera systems generating digital film up to 6k 60fps or 2.5k up to 120fps. Drone pilot/cinematographer with 6 years experience. Expert SlingStudio user with Vimeo Premium & WebinarJam Executive subscriptions for live streaming, private broadcasting, or remote/local video village solutions. Silverstack Offload Manager user for all your DIT needs. Proud father of three boys, former professional athlete, actor, healer, motion picture educator, and performing arts center technical director. Through his company, House of 8 Media, Mike enjoys contract work as a DP or B Camera Op for commercial, documentary, and narrative digital content ranging from TV commercials, docu-style brand videos, short-feature films, infomercials, and especially live events. He thrives under the pressure of live streaming as a single crew member running multiple-cameras, audio mixing, projections, on-screen graphics, and switching cameras....sometimes all at the same time. As a department lead, Michael nurtures the spirit of ensemble in a positive, fun, safe environment with demonstrated experience at advanced A/V Setups and successful crew engagement while maintaining a peaceful, enjoyable workplace even under the most time-restrictive, public circumstances. In conversation, Michael keeps great notes. In preparation, he is an eagle scout. During the shoot, Michael is a knight in arms who uplifts the crew and always makes the client happy.

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Hi! I’m a video producer and writer on a quest to tell new stories and to examine the accuracy and implications of established narratives. My videos, articles and audio stories have been published by Business Insider, Insider, Slate Magazine, the Orlando Sentinel, VII Foundation, The Chautauquan Daily and Dublin South FM in Ireland. Before joining Storyhunter, I worked as a video editor, producer and animator for Business Insider, where my videos received over 15 million views across YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook. Some of my most recent documentary and video essay projects trace the battle surrounding a Confederate statue in a small Florida town, and the way 'Parasite' director Bong Joon-ho recycles and perfects moments from film to film. SKILLS • Adobe: Premiere, After Effects, Audition, Lightroom, Illustrator, Photoshop, Media Encoder, Prelude • Video: Pitching, research, pre-production, shooting B-roll, interviewing (reporting, audio, lighting, framing), sourcing imagery, organizing footage, scripting, narration, editing, animation, refining audio, color correction, subtitling, using CMS and Xchange, launching and growing online video series, setting and achieving views goals 
• Journalism: Video and podcast production, news and culture reporting and writing, still photography and editing, writing captions, leading and organizing production teams
 RECOGNITION • 2020 NPR Kroc Finalist for “The Statue That Won’t Go Away”
 • Official Selection 2019, SPLICE Film Fest in the Short Documentary category for “What We Used to Be"

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I've managed and created digital media for corporations, non-profits and education from locations around the world. I'm passionate about storytelling and traveling, having visited over 40 countries and produced programming in over a dozen. * Over 20 years creating and managing media projects, live event video and webcasts, personnel and production logistics for technology corporations and nonprofits . * Expert in video production from concept to completion, through all phases of pre-production, studio and location shooting, and post production from edit to distribution. * Experienced team leader and mentor of employees, volunteers, contractors, and students. * Administrator of project plans, digital content management, online event platforms, documentation workflows and vendor relationships. * Advanced budgeting, scheduling and related workflow process skills. * Expert knowledge of Mac and Windows OS, Adobe Creative Suite, Google Docs, Microsoft Office, online learning tools. Professional work includes Silicon Valley Fortune 10, SMB and startups. Pro-bono work for the Burning Man Organization, Rebuilding TogetherSF, Relief International and others.

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I am an Emmy nominated producer and director with experience developing, producing, directing and editing more than 400 hours of content. My portfolio includes docu-series, documentaries, original branded digital programming, digital series, VR, feature films and commercials. From 2007-2010, I served as the Producer of New Media at 51 Minds Entertainment. My leadership and responsibilities included overseeing on-air special programming and all stages of creative series development, strategy, production and post for digital and social media platforms. Under my leadership, 51 Minds Digital/Vh1.com produced 3,000+ episodes totaling over 350 hours of digital content. During this time, 51 Minds’ digital platform initiatives set landmark standards for their distribution partners. After 51 Minds Entertainment, I went on to produce a number of on-air projects, for production partners such as Facebook Watch, Amazon Prime, MTV, VH1, Discovery, Bravo, A&E, We TV, Lionsgate and others. Recently, I served as the Co-Executive Producer for the Discovery Channel documentary ‘The Swim’, chronicling a long distance swimmer’s attempt at crossing the North Pacific from Japan to San Francisco. I currently serve as Co-EP at Sharp Entertainment, overseeing the production and post production on a variety of shows. With a keen cinematic eye and sense of visual storytelling, coupled with vast experiences in digital content, non-scripted, traditional TV space, feature length film and documentary production, I have a uniquely extensive skill set encompassing the development, content creation, production and post-production of a wide variety of formats to execute the highest digital standard across all platforms.

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Producer/Director/Cinematographer from Brooklyn, NYC. Now residing in the Bay area. Freelancer for KQED Arts & Sciences. Currently commissioned by the Oakland Museum for 3 films about West Oakland set to screen in july 2016 til 2017. Back in NYC I was Producer for two seasons of a TV show called "Behind the Unsigned" for FuseTV. The show was a reality-docu series that profiled unsigned talent receiving notoriety independent of a record label deal. Soon after I created my own indy series called "Say Something Worth Something", SSWS for short. It was a play on the MTA transit slogan "If You See Something Say Something". It profiles artist and creators in the NYC Metro area that I felt deserved a platform. The series was picked up by Complex mag. and AfroPunk Festival. This series is what garnered the attention of KQED. I really enjoy working on docs long & short. I have a feature length doc on gender identity I completed this year in the role of Lead DP called "We Exist".

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Sarah has spent the last 15+ years working at major media companies such as MTV News, the U.S. Information Agency, C-SPAN, CBSNews.com, A&E Television Networks Interactive, and the 3-D virtual word, Second Life. She worked on the Dreamworks film, Just Like Heaven, starring Mark Ruffalo and Reese Witherspoon in San Francisco and Line Produced the low-budget indie sci-fi film, In World War. She directed/produced/shot/edited the award-winning feature documentary cult hit, Meditate and Destroy. She has embraced the medium of film to bring much needed awareness of ‘sacred cinema’ to audiences. Her love of film began at age 12 when she received the Fisher Price PXL2000 toy camera as a gift. Sarah received an undergraduate degree in Broadcast Journalism from Virginia Commonwealth University and spent one year in England studying media arts at the University of Plymouth. Sarah is dedicated to her mission of serving holistic health & wellness businesses. She loves meditation, cats, gardens, oceans, and drinking hordes of chai.

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After a decade in the film & video industry, Dan realized that in a web-centric world, the captive audience that broadcast commercials took for granted no longer exists. He believes that authentic, entertaining, and meaningful content is what drives people to share a story--not a powerpoint slide filled with value propositions. He started Slow Clap in 2014 with the hopes of having an outlet to tell stories authentically; something he rarely got to do once he left film school. Dan was trained at NYU, where he received a B.F.A. in Film Production from the Tisch School of the Arts. He originally grew up on the Main Line of Philadelphia, but has lived in San Francisco’s Mission District since 2008. He’s collaborated with hundreds of brands like Sony PlayStation, Capital One, TNT, Apple, Google, Norton, Campari, Blue Shield of CA, and Environmental Defense Fund. His short films have appeared in festivals like SF DocFest, Oxford International, Cannes, and others. When you ask his team, they will tell you that Dan is the first to acknowledge when he’s wrong. It’s that sense of integrity and transparency that has helped him grow Slow Clap and keep clients happy. And these core values carry through into the work. What Dan loves most about running his own business is the collaborative relationships he has with his clients. Always open to brainstorm a new project, or contribute to an existing campaign, he loves developing and producing stories in a truly collaborative way. Dan won’t mention his interests outside of work, because Slow Clap is his passion and it keeps him busy around the clock. But if you spend any time at the office, you will definitely meet his better half, Rahel, who’s the secret sauce of Slow Clap’s success.

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Meera Angelica Joshi is an international filmmaker who was born in New Zealand, raised in Australia and currently lives in New York, USA. Meera started making films in high school which gained recognition from teachers and peers. She followed her dream to New York University to pursue writing and directing. While at NYU she gained skills in producing, art direction and editing which helped inform her decisions as a director. She interned on films such as They Came Together and Chinese Puzzle as well as the Dr. Oz Show. Combining her interest in Himalayan art and film, she interned in the film programming department at the Rubin Museum of Art where she helped curate their documentary series, Lunch Matters. Since graduating, Meera has completed two films and worked at Bloomberg as a video editor. At Bloomberg, she learnt a lot about producing unscripted pieces and developed a love for documentary. She currently works as a freelance producer and editor and is producing a web series called "How We Met" documenting the hilarious, unexpected and profound ways people come together.

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Margaret Cheatham Williams is an Emmy-nominated independent film producer and editor, currently seeking opportunities and collaborations in the film, audio, and outdoor space. Previously Margaret Cheatham was a documentarian at The New York Times, where she pitched, produced, shot and edited narrative and documentary video and photography. She regularly collaborated with the graphics department to create interactive content. She is particularly driven to stories that examine the intersection of health, family and personal identity. Through deep character exploration, she aims to tackle intimate issues including gender, fertility, and sexuality. In 2018 she piloted Conception, a highly visual and lyrical exploration of the myriad ways that women become mothers, and the journey that ensues. In the series, we introduce you to six women — each with a transformation uniquely theirs — in first-person accounts of love, regret, doubt and strength. Season II addresses the complexities of raising children in our modern era – We asked parents: What does it mean to raise children in the context of #MeToo, the immigration discussion, the opioid crisis and the gun debate? Her other work at the Times took her to Pyeongchang, South Korea where she covered the Winter Olympics, to Brazil, and all over the US, where she has reported on postpartum depression, politics and produced 360 video. Margaret Cheatham’s work has been recognized by the Livingston Awards, the Hearst Foundation, Pictures of the Year International, the National Press Photographers Association, Society for News Design, and the South by Southwest interactive awards. Her films have premiered at AFI Fest and the Margaret Mead Film Festival. In 2016 she was selected as an alternate for the Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship, which provides opportunities for U.S. citizens to participate in an academic year of overseas travel and storytelling on a globally significant theme. She has been a multimedia coach at the North Carolina Photojournalism workshop and has served as judge for the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism contest and the White House Press Association. Previously she a video intern for The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and MediaStorm, an award winning multimedia production house. She completed a bachelor's degree in 2011 from the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied photojournalism and French. Margaret Cheatham loves pineapple, lives in San Francisco with her husband, and the other love of her life – their West Virginian mutt, Duma. Her company, Moxie’s Daughter, is named for her mother, the best photo assistant she’ll ever have.

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I’m a French-American journalist who films, produces, and edits documentaries. I'm a film fellow and producer at Still I Rise Films. I shoot and edit films for A Moment in Time Productions. Most recently, I directed and edited a short documentary that spans 10 years of San Francisco's "Flower Man." The film won the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Documentary at the United Nations Association Film Festival and the grand prize at the 2021 San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival. My current film, a short documentary about a community activist and how she stepped up to help the Latinx community when COVID-19 hit, premiered at the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival and is screening at the United Nations Association Film Festival, the San Francisco Latino Film Festival, and the Los Angeles Latinx Film Festival. I edited "We All Break," a feature documentary on Haitian Vodou and jazz funded by The Shifting Foundation and I filmed parts of a feature film that premiered in Berlin in the fall of 2021. A grantee of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, I produced and edited illustrated stories on the challenges low-income students have faced during the pandemic over the course of a yearlong project. A story in that project recently won the Online News Association General Excellence for Online Journalism Award. I started my career as a print journalist, writing and editing for magazines and news websites. I've reported for The Associated Press, I worked as news manager at Yahoo and I'm the co-author of "San Francisco: The Unknown City" (Arsenal Pulp Press), which was shortlisted for a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year award. My stories have been published in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times among other publications. I helped start and run Mission Local, an award-winning news website. I've filmed and edited video for television, news outlets as well as corporate clients. I hold a Master's degree from U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism with a focus on multimedia journalism. I’ve been a Carnegie-Knight News21 fellow and a U.C. Berkeley fellow. I've created and ran video workshops and taught video at U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism as well as high schools in the Bay Area. I've spoken at journalism events around the United States including the Online News Association.

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Free-Lance, Award Winning, Documentary Filmmaker and Cinematographer (Experienced x 10 Years) 20 x years US Military Experience - Specialties - Experienced Filmmaker and Video Journalist In Austere War Torn Environments, Subject Matter Expert In Military and US Veteran Affairs, US Foreign Policy, Counterterrorism, Environmental National Disaster Crisis and Response To Include Artic, Wildland Forest Fires and Hurricane Flood Conditions, US Stateside Domestic and Fringe Organizations To Include Worker and Political Unions, Super PAC Donation and Lobbyist Groups, Anti-Government and Racial Populist Movements and Organizations, US Government Foreign Policy and National Security Correspondence, Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice Issues, Travel Journalism, Restaurant and Food Industry, Live and Staged Sporting Events, Comedy, Satire, Video Art, and Underwater Video and Photography, Independent Commercial, Narrative, Documentary Filmmaker, and Producer

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Melina Tupa is an award-winning Argentinean and Brazilian journalist and documentary filmmaker, specializing in human rights and Latino issues across the world. She started her career as a print reporter for Billiken magazine and Diagonal Newspaper in Argentina but soon moved onto visual journalism. She worked for five years as an associate TV producer, three of those years at Turner Broadcasting System. There she wrote and produced short news formats that aired during commercial breaks, in-between shows and were shared on social media in nearly every Latin American country. Melina holds a Bachelor in Journalism degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina and a Master of Journalism degree from UC Berkeley, focusing on Documentary Filmmaking and Photojournalism. At the Berkeley J-School, Melina was awarded a TV/Documentary Merit Fellowship and the Carlos M. Castañeda Journalism Scholarship. Her documentary thesis The Search, told the story of Estela de Carlotto, the president of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, whose grandson was abducted during the Argentinean military dictatorship. The documentary is a Student Academy Award finalist, a recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Excellence in Journalism Award for Student Special Project in addition to several other awards, and has been featured in different film festivals across the world. In her free time she enjoys playing the guitar, singing and taking 35mm photographs.

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