Discover Top Video Editors - Documentary in Salinas, California, USA

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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• Video Editor - Documentary
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Field Producer
• Full-Service Live Production
• Colorist

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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I'm an Editor, Producer, Director and Fellow at UT Austin with a master's in film production, currently dividing my time Austin, the Bay Area, and the Republic of Georgia. I have extensive experience in video editing for documentaries and social media with an adept knowledge of the Adobe Suite. I have also edited, produced, and directed short documentaries on conspiracy theories, Dementia, and childhood grief that have played at Oscar-Qualifying film festivals throughout the U.S. I edit quickly and can edit audio, do color correction and grading, and work with video graphics. I am passionate about helping brands, organizations, and artists connect to their audiences on a visceral level. I have edited social media content for esteemed outdoor organizations such as Mountainfilm and American Field. In the early days of TikTok I was hired by them to create content for their platform and within 4 months my account amassed 200,000 followers and 50,000 - 20 million views per video.

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Award-winning filmmaker and editor with a quick eye, a balance of technical and creative strengths and a talent for crafting emotionally-engaging, character-driven stories. Fernanda Tornaghi brings Brazilian flair and congeniality to her TV, film and corporate work. Her specialties span reality, documentary and fiction formats. She prides herself on being the kind of quick study who was able to high dive into editing for the Rio Olympics without any prior sports experience. She’s been known to make hard-nosed directors cry with her storytelling. Her feature documentary Queen of Brazil premiered at the 2008 Rio International Film Festival. It was awarded best feature at the 2010 NY Brazilian Film Festival and nominated for best documentary at the 2009 Zurich International Film Festival. Fernanda began her career in NYC and worked with independent filmmakers Bill Brand and Abigail Child. She also served as assistant editor to renowned Brazilian editors Leli Figueiredo, edt. and Henrique Tartarotti, edt.

• Video Editor - News
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Kathleen is a documentary filmmaker. She serves as the Social Media Manager and Film Assistant at Flying Carp Productions. After receiving her BA in journalism and documentary production from Flagler College in 2015, she has been working in the San Francisco documentary community for award-winning independent production companies. She assists filmmakers with all aspects of production including social media, data research, film-trailer editing, shooting interviews, fundraising management, and distribution. She has a passion for journalism and documentary production. She interned as a researcher at the CNN headquarters in Atlanta. Her projects have included reporting on the homeless crisis in Atlanta, which won her a Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Award. She traveled to Kenya where she produced a short documentary film, "Living Positive." This film highlighted the amazing work of the Safe Water Aids Project in Kenya.

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I’m a creative & current Producer & DP in the SF Bay Area whose passion is character-driven stories that reveal an underlying issue. I love what I do, and that comes across in my work with you, and the product I deliver. Recently, I was honored to be Director of Photography on Warner Brother's award-winning movie 'Batkid Begins' (2015), Video Exhibit Producer for Global Lives Project at Lincoln Center, NYC (2016), and to film for NBC's 1st Look (2016). As a Producer & Director, I've successfully crafted award-winning videos for tech start-ups & fortune 500 companies to build brand awareness & also work independently as a documentary filmmaker on inspiring & emotionally engaging films, which has brought me to Vietnam, Cambodia, India & Brazil. In addition, I'm a filmmaker for the Global Lives Project, a collective that films 24-hour lives around the world, as part of a global collection of day-in-life videos. My fortes? Ideating & Creative collaboration, Putting together a dynamic crew, Cinematography, Storytelling, Directing on location. Team player.

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

Mateo Hinojosa (M.A. in Documentary Film, Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires; B.A., Northwestern University, summa cum laude) is a filmmaker (director, producer, cinematographer/videographer and editor), as well as an educator, facilitator, and artist. A Bolivian-American based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he works worldwide, exploring issues of social justice and education; public space and art; politics and performance; spirituality and health; and individual identity in collective struggle. He has worked filming neurosurgeries, street art, local cuisine, theater, activism and indigenous ecological knowledge. He has taught cross-cultural documentary skills to diverse groups, from Native American youth to U.S. college students. His feature documentary, Spectacular Movements, follows young actors in Bolivia as they struggle to revive the critical spirit of the recent revolution through popular theater and street interventions. He is the Media Director at The Cultural Conservancy and Director of Woven Path Media.

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• Video Editor - Documentary
• On-Air Reporter / Host

Adam Garrett-Clark holds a Bachelors of Science in Print Multimedia Journalism from Emerson College, Boston Massachusetts. While backpacking through Central America he founded a monthly Tourism Magazine, in Leon Nicaragua. As lead writer, editor and ad salesman, LeonEazy published six issues, distributing 1500 copies in town, and became a force in the local economy. In 2007 he returned to the states, taking a job as an ad salesman for a weekly newspaper in Northern Manhattan, New York. His intent was to write. By the end of his three years, Manhattan Times created a staff writer position for him and he was developing a series of short news documentaries for the website. ​ In 2010 Garrett-Clark returned to San Francisco taking temporary work as a Pedicab driver while looking for a job in media. Seduced by the beauty of making a living on a bicycle, his cover letter writing fizzled out. Taking on freelance journalism projects throughout that time his work has included: Video evidence collection for Law Firm Siegel & Yee, Scriptwriting for explainer video series MinuteVideos, post production for Independent Lens series The Revolutionary Optimist, Research assistant to Wired Magazine writer Gary Wolf and Joshua Davis on separate occasions. Production Assistant and or Consultant on various documentary projects, Produced videos for the arts center, The Crucible, which exhibited at the Oakland Airport, and wrote for Patch San Leandro.

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• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
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• Video Editor - Documentary
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Isara is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and freelance director of photography and editor based in Oakland, CA. Her verité cinematography is noted for demonstrating the trust she earns with her subjects and her ability to considerately perceive and represent complex truths at the heart of each story. As a Video Producer for KQED Arts (PBS/NPR affiliate in the SF Bay Area) Isara produced, edited and shot a dozen mini-docs for the web reaching a nationwide audience. She produced and edited the Portland episode of the pilot season of KQED Art’s Webby Award-winning web series If Cities Could Dance, which highlights dancers around the country and the social issues they address with their art. She shot for KQED’s Regional Emmy-winning video A Border Wall of Piñatas Brings a Community Together. Her work has also appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, CrossCut Seattle, EdSource and The Grotto Network. She has been involved in feature documentaries on Netflix, CNN, and MSNBC. Isara has directed, shot and edited short documentaries in the San Francisco Bay Area for the East Bay AIDS Center; Women Organized Against Life-Threatening Disease (WORLD), a grass-roots Oakland org helping unhoused women understand and wean off opioid abuse; and for the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, the only public high school in the US with a World Art curriculum. She holds a masters degree in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was selected as a Documentary Fellow. She grew up in a neighborhood of Boston, MA.

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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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I am an Emmy® nominated Oakland-based video producer + editor with a passion for creating powerful and engaging visual content. I am a graduate of Northwestern University, and George Washington University’s Institute for Documentary Filmmaking. She was the 2011 George Stoney Fellow at Working Films, and a 2013 BAVC Mediamaker Fellow. In 2016, she received an Emmy® nomination for “Women Dancers Redefine Oakland’s Street Dancing Scene”, published on KQED Arts. Stemming from a background in psychology and the non-profit sector, her focus is on mission driven content. In the past I have worked on feature documentaries, online courses, short documentary & video journalism, and short marketing content for non-profit organizations via outlets including KQED, The New York Times, TED, and others. I believe in the power of media to expose stories and truth, spark conversations, and break down barriers.

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• Video Editor - Documentary

After graduating from Wesleyan University as a Film Studies major – Tara moved to Los Angeles in 2011 where she interned on the TV show Leverage before landing a job at the boutique ad agency Illumin8Creative. Within two years, Tara rose from Assistant Editor to Lead Editor, cutting trailers and sizzles for clients like Sony, Lionsgate and Miramax as well as company profiles and corporate videos for clients like Bank of the West. Here, Tara discovered a passion for doing documentary style shorts and in 2013 started a freelance business specializing in the creation of shorts for non-profits. In March of 2014, Tara was hired as a freelance editor at Brave New Films and shortly there after joined the staff as their Lead Editor. In 2015 she had an opportunity to merge her advertising and documentary experience through her directorial debut – Racism is Real – the biggest success Brave New Films has had to date with over 18 million views across Facebook and Youtube and was featured in outlets such as Vox, Buzzfeed, Upworthy, Time magazine, the Independent, and the Washington Post. Later that year, the Executive Producer of the shorts team stepped down and Tara stepped up. Her first two pieces as the new Executive Producer/Head of Production received millions of social views and upon completion, she was asked to Co-Produce Robert Greenwald’s feature film “Making A Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA”. Since then, she has continued to oversee all development, production, and post for all Brave New Films shorts, animations and interactive games – including campaigns such as “the Bail Trap.” Now Tara has moved to the bay area and ready to find amazing projects to dedicate her talents towards.

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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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• Production Assistant

Dedicated and meticulous Producer / Videographer / Editor with an eye for detail and an excellent record of employer satisfaction. Comprehensive experience with all aspects of video production and post-production. I'm a San Francisco based producer, director, cinematographer and editor. In the late nineties I began to build design, multi-media and video production boutiques where, writing and producing original television and integrated marketing campaigns for local and global brands (Symantec, Seagate, EVault, Citrix, PBS, Oakland Museum of California, Mollusk Surf Shop) allowed me to hone my visual storytelling skills. Now as co-creator and director of photography for SeaLevelTV my camera work can be found capturing short documentaries about people whose lives are driven by and connected to the ocean. Telling stories is my passion. Whether they be cultural documentaries like his SeaLevelTV work or my camera work on docs such as Forever Chinatown and Not Without Us.

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Sub64Films specializes in documentary content for film, television, and brands. Founder Kevin Gordon is a Student Academy Award® winning documentary filmmaker whose films have screened at festivals across the world. He is drawn to inspirational, cinematic, character based storytelling. His film Dreams Awake won a 2010 Student Academy Award and was selected for the “Filmmakers of Tomorrow” program at the Telluride Film Festival. He worked as an associate producer and field producer on "I Almost Got Away With It" a 13-part documentary series for Discovery and has also worked on productions for PBS and Facebook and directed for the New York Times' OpDoc Series. His first feature-length documentary TRUE SON about a 21-year-old trying to save a city in crisis premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival and has been picked up by Fusion TV, a new collaboration between Univision and Disney. Kevin received his MFA in Documentary Film and Video at Stanford University.

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I'm a San Francisco-based storyteller working for a more equal and integrated society. I'm dedicated to challenging taboos and illuminating truths by giving voice to marginalized populations through film. I am in the post-production phase of my SF Film Society-sponsored short documentary, There Is a Place, about a musician who visits various Alzheimer's care facilities in the SF Bay Area. The film explores how contributing to a collective musical sound within a circle of peers brings out presentness, playfulness and a sense of connection in the face of memory loss, loneliness, and the end of life. Aside from my personal film projects, I've worked with corporate, nonprofit and solopreneur clients to deliver compelling videos that serve their messages. These projects include both documentary-style and narrative shorts, and I drive these projects from creative story development to production, direction and post-production.

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I am a documentary filmmaker, directing feature length documentary films. I have been working with social justice groups to create media to tell their stories for 12 years. I have produced hundreds of short videos to be shared online. I have been creating media around worker's strikes, election campaigns, etc so I am used to producing videos on tight deadlines. Much of the work I do has a press component; I often provide interviews, photos & broll reels to press. In 2010 when my work supporting immigrant rights communities in my home state of Arizona drew national coverage, I began getting freelance assignments for radio, PBS Jorge Gestoso Investiga, CNN Espanol, NBC National, TeleSur, Democracy Now, Bill Moyers and Al Jazeera's Faultlines (line production). I am an editor so I capture professional video/ audio with all of the components to tell a story. I came to video journalism through advocacy media but I understand the difference.

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