Discover Top Freelancers in Salinas, California, USA

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"

• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Audio Storyteller
• Copywriter
• Fixer
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Animator / Visual Effects Artist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Sound Designer
• Colorist

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.

• Field Producer
• Production Company
• Creative Director
• Fixer
• Production Assistant

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.

• Creative Director
• Production Company
• Fixer
• Field Producer
• Translator
• 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.

• Documentary DP
• Creative Director
• Production Company
• Field Producer
• 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.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Translator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

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.

• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Production Company
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Reporter / Journalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

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".

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Fixer
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

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.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Production Company
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary

As a kid I was sure of one thing: when I was older I was going to be a Ghostbuster. I was going to haul my Proton Pack and Ghost Trap around in the Ecto-1, live in an old firehouse, and save my hometown from the tyranny of paranormal beings, three of my best buds in tow. When I came to learn that Ghostbusters weren’t real, but were instead fictional characters created for a movie, I did the rational thing and made my first and only career move into film making. The logic being, maybe I couldn’t be a Ghostbuster, but I could help make them… and hopefully meet one. Before attending film school I toured the country playing rowdy punk music with my non-Ghostbuster best buds. I gained a lot of experience on the road and through it accustomed myself to being exhausted, uncomfortable, and sometimes starving all the while chasing after creativity as fast as our beat-up van would go. I eventually made my way to San Francisco where I attended the Academy of Art University and studied cinematography. I again found myself in a state of lacking human comforts, but overflowing creatively. As a result of that experience and the connections I made within my program I was able to get myself onto set working as a First AC on numerous films, commercials, and music videos, leading me into my current role as a Director of Photography. As such, I practice technically adept filmmaking with a focus on igniting the imagination and pulling on the heart strings of my audience, the kind of film making that would make anyone want to be a Ghostbuster.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

My name is Rosa Amanda Tuirán and I am a Mexican documentary filmmaker, photographer and investigative journalist based in the Bay Area. I received my Master of Journalism from UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in May 2020. I worked as a News Video Fellow at BuzzFeed News and was a National Association of Hispanic Journalists Fellow at CBS News in 2019. In March 2020, I was part of the COVID-19 reporting project with the Investigative Reporting Program and The New York Times to help meet the need for comprehensive reporting on how the Covid-19 crisis affected California. After graduating, I worked on a PBS Frontline investigation, and have continued to pursue independent work about climate change and insecurity in Mexico. In November 2020, I published an investigation in The Counter about a meatpacking plant in Southern California that illustrates the national failure of OSHA to protect workers. Longreads recently included the piece in their best COVID-19 reporting of 2020. This year I worked as a series Producer for OceanX about the wonders of the ocean and those who explored it and I produced a Ford Foundation-funded podcast series about the murder of journalists in Mexico.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Field Producer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Translator
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Production Assistant

After more than two decades telling stories, sharpening my skills and leading others in the craft — I’m still inspired myself by the power of the medium. Most recently, as Managing Editor for Video & Audio at McClatchy, I led a team of journalists producing impactful daily and long-term projects. The team was a scrappy startup inside of a legacy media organization. We developed new workflows, trained staff and tackled technology challenges. Our video producer team worked with reporters, editors and photographers at the Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee, Kansas City Star — reaching new audiences in powerful ways. Our high impact team told the story behind the Miami Herald’s investigation of Jefferey Epstein - Perversion of Justice. The team also explored the conditions at the U.S./Mexico border with the Emmy award-winning Wait at Matamoros for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In Sacramento, the documentary S.A.C. tackled the fallout from a police shooting that led to protests and community soul-searching. Prior to McClatchy, I was part of the America’s Heartland production team for KVIE Public Television. America’s Heartland chronicled the story of American agriculture for more than a decade. I traveled the U.S. (and world) as a producer and reporter for the show. Awards 2020 Lone Star Emmy Award: The Wait at Matamoros 2016 Northern California Emmy Award: Yes! We’re Open 2015 Northern California Emmy Award for Documentary: A Likely Story

• Drone Operator
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Field Producer
• Content Strategist
• Executive Producer

Jun’s 13 years in journalism have taken her from reporting on Alaska Natives’ opposition to oil drilling in the Arctic National Wilidlife Refuge, to the fight against the U.S. military expansion in Guam and Okinawa. She’s interviewed Chinese-American grocers who live along the Mississippi Delta, and covered the resistance against Monsanto’s use of herbicides in Puerto Rico. And she spent over 5 years on filming the documentary Futbolistas 4 Life, about youth from undocumented families in East Oakland and a student-led fight for a safe place to play in response to the violent deaths of their classmates. Jun has worked on documentaries that have premiered at SXSW and broadcasted on ESPN and MSNBC. Her work can also be seen in the Washington Post, the Associated Press and KQED. She joined AJ+ three months before the Al Jazeera channel officially launched in 2014, back when they were one of a few news organizations experimenting with video for social media. Her AJ+ team Untold America won three Regional Emmy Awards, and Futbolistas 4 Life was an official selection of the San Francisco International Film Festival. She’s a '19 Online News Association Women’s Leadership Accelerator fellow and a jury judge for the International Documentary Association awards. She’s a former SFFILM House resident and BAVC National MediaMaker fellow. Her work has also been supported by Women in Film, Glassbreaker Films, the Berkeley Film Foundation and other funders. Jun grew up in Oakland, California and Kobe, Japan, has also lived in Los Angeles, Cork, Ireland and along the Mississippi River in Northern Illinois, and has traveled to over 20 countries across Asia, Latin America, Europe and North Africa.

• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Field Producer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director
• Post-Production Manager
• TV News Producer

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.

• Creative Director
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Motion Graphics Designer

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.

• Commercial DP
• Production Company
• Fixer

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.

• Production Company
• Documentary DP
• Fixer
• Commercial DP
• Production Assistant

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.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - News
• Production Company
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Field Producer
• Fixer
• TV News Producer
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Sound Mixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• 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.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Creative Director

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.

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

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.

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

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.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Sound Mixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial