Discover Top Freelancers in Salinas, California, USA

A freelance radio reporter for more than forty years, my beat has been San Francisco, The Bay Area and Northern California. I cover news, features and sports.

• Audio Storyteller

I'm a print, radio and visual journalist currently based in Beijing, China; available for work of all kinds.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Sound Mixer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• TV News Producer
• Music Composer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Field Producer

• Sound Mixer

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• Copy Editor
• Reporter / Journalist

• Reporter / Journalist

• Reporter / Journalist

• Audio Storyteller
• Translator
• Transcriber

• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary

Visual designer and producer for AJ+

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

Hello! My name is Madeleine. I’m an imaginative and meticulous film and commercial video producer, who brings passion, authenticity, and a fierce work ethic to every project. I have a strong record of leading projects from ideation through completion and have worked within a wide range of budgets and timelines. A versatile team player, I've confidently taken on senior producer roles on feature films, episodic series, music videos, and national commercial campaigns, while also thriving in supporting capacities. Originally from Portland, OR, I earned my BFA at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts and spent several years working in Los Angeles before relocating to the Bay Area in 2016. I'm driven to tell human stories and to help amplify the voices of underrepresented populations. I believe a video is the ultimate group project, and I'd be excited to collaborate with you to bring your story to life!

• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Creative Director
• Field Producer

My name is Alan and I am a DP, Director, and Video Editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I attended Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, earning my BFA in Film Production with an emphasis in cinematography. I started my career in Los Angeles as a freelance cinematographer, shooting short films, music videos, and independent feature films. Notably, The Phoenix Project (2015) had a limited theatrical release, was reviewed in the LA Times, and received a distribution deal, ultimately landing on Netflix. After re-locating to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2016, I established myself as a commercial director and DP. I have created content for Google, Airbnb, Ford, Autodesk, HP, Uber, Dupont, and many other well-known brands. I have navigated shooting overseas, worked with celebrity talent and a Michelin Star chef, and directed campaigns with custom set builds and six-figure budgets. With 10+ years of professional filmmaking experience, I have a strong attention to detail and a deep understanding of visual storytelling. My leadership style is based on the understanding that production is a collaborative effort, and I strive to lead with confidence and empathy.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director

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.

• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Production Company
• Field Producer
• Sound Mixer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Audio Storyteller
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Production Assistant
• Grip
• Reporter / Journalist
• Fixer
• Sound Designer

Hi, I'm Chris Layhe, a native of Cheshire in the UK, but US based for the past 20 years. I started out life as a documentary director and editor at the BBC in London, before creating my own UK company to allow me to expand into the DP and editor roles on film, broadcast and corporate projects. Today I'm San Francisco based and I concentrate more on DP, editor and colorist work - using this synergy to get the most from any story in each of these key disciplines in both the visual and sound. Of course, you never fully give up directing once you have it in your system, and I do still direct some pieces, like music videos. But I prefer to offer this as an added extra to working with me on your team - having an editor who understands the whole process and is as happy rewriting a section of the script or providing notes to a camera team as he is cutting an hour long special makes for an easy life! The same with a DP who can step in to help in a crunch, or direct and shoot 2nd Unit.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• Sound Mixer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Eric Ivey is a DP, camera operator, and editor living in the San Francisco North Bay. He has just completed his directorial debut short documentary Not Worth Killing which tells the story of the unlikely friendship between a catholic nun and a convicted murderer living on death row in an Alabama prison. He shot, produced, and edited a three-part documentary series on Waldorf Education, Learn to Change the World which has been translated into 25 different languages and has screened for audiences across the globe. He has filmed, edited many short-form documentaries including the Vice exclusive 'Happy Birthday Oscar Grant, Love Mom' and Being Seen, which participated in more than twenty film festivals winning awards earning the Prix du Documentaire at Cannes Festival International Sur du Handicap. He also produced a hand full of the narrative short films including A little Death, which won Best Genre Film at SF IndieFest. He has a passion for cinematic storytelling and considers himself lucky to make it his work.

• Documentary DP
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Creative Director

Casey has shot for NowThis, MTV, Frontline/World, Comcast Streampix, Nissan, and FoodMattersTV, among many other local and national producers. Her work includes nationally distributed television commercials, independent feature documentaries and short narrative films. In 2013, she premiered her feature documentary directorial debut The Organic Life to sold-out crowds at the 36th Mill Valley Film Festival, where it was included in the prestigious Active Cinema circle. The film won Best Documentary Feature at the Santa Cruz Film Festival and is available online on Hulu, iTunes, and Amazon. Mongolia: Land Without Fences aired as a FRONTLINE/World "Rough Cut" in 2007. In 2008, Casey received a Fulbright scholarship to produce Los Famosos, a feature length documentary set in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She spent 2010 in the Dominican Republic as the First Unit Director of Ballplayer: Pelotero, an award-winning New York Times’ Critics Pick and in San Francisco as an assistant production coordinator for The Two Escobars, an award-winning ESPN 30 for 30 documentary. In addition to freelance work, she currently teaches film production at Cal State East Bay.

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

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.

• Documentary DP
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• 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.

• Documentary DP
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Reporter / Journalist
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

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.

• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Documentary DP
• Field Producer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Commercial DP
• Sound Mixer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Digital Content Creator

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
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial