Discover Top Freelancers in San Mateo, California, USA

I'm a journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area who's recognized for connecting to people and relaying information that's vital. A 2022 Kiplinger Fellow at the Scripps School of Journalism at University of Ohio, I'm skilled at localizing climate stories and promoting solutions. My most recent nonfiction book, "GIRL WARRIORS: How 25 Young Activists Are Saving the Earth" (April 2021, Chicago Review Press), earned a Kirkus starred review ("Engaging, brilliant, and intersectional: a must for shelves everywhere."). My next book, Climate Champions: 15 Women Fighting for Your Future, is due out in 2023 (Chicago Review Press). I'm currently interviewing "Gen Z climate-change activists discuss some of the most pressing issues facing our planet," for "Unearthed" at YAHOO. I've also planned and executed live stream interviews at outlets such as The Lonely Whale.

• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Copywriter
• Digital Content Creator
• Content Strategist
• Reporter / Journalist
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Senior Editor

I’m a visual journalist in San Francisco. Before moving to news and documentary I worked for a decade as a commercial producer creating content for agencies like Leo Burnett, design studios like IDEO, and big brands like Google and Apple. I’ve also produced for CNN, The Washington Post, and Público, Portugal’s largest newspaper, as well. In 2022, I completed my master’s at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism after working for a decade as a commercial producer. My thesis documentary Hasta la última gota, following the fight for water and a new constitution in Chile, was published in The Intercept. The film also screened at the Mill Valley and Banff Mountain Film Festivals. I work in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

• Video Editor - Documentary
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer

Kat O’Toole is a documentary cinematographer based in Oakland, California. She delights in falling into the rhythm of another person’s life while filming handheld. She loves collaborating with directors so that the images they make together can best support the story. She creates beautiful, comfortable and intimate interview setups that allow her collaborators to sink in and open up. Most of all, Kat takes pride in pre-production planning because having all the tools you need frees you up to follow an unexpected thread to someplace even better than you planned to go. Kat studied at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke. Her work has been shown on PBS, the BBC and at Sundance Satellite Programming.

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

Matt Martin, the owner of MVP Media, has been creating digital media since 2003. He founded MVP Media, based in Fresno, CA, in 2011. Matt loves to create concepts, write scripts, create storyboards, shoot in a cinematic style in 4K raw utilizing camera movement with steadicams, motorized gimbals, sliders, and drones. He also enjoys editing, creating motion graphics, and 3D animation using Cinema 4D. MVP Media has grown into a team of talented people taking projects from concept to finished product. We've created commercials, corporate videos, real estate, and event videos for more than 80 clients including BD Medical Technology, Coherent, Farmers Insurance of Fresno, Giro Pack Inc., Omnicell, Prison Fellowship, and many more.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Creative Director
• Production Company
• Motion Graphics Designer

I'm a documentary filmmaker with 9 years of experience in producing, filming, and editing for media organizations and businesses. My career started in a newsroom in Sacramento as part of their special projects unit. I now own a production company and have worked to create docs, and other forms of video content for nationally recognized brands and TV networks like Footlocker, Nike, Adidas, VICE, AJ+, Bloomberg, Weather Channel, ATTN, MSNBC, and HEARST. My documentaries range in focus from massive fire issues in California, to water rights all over the U.S. I've earned 9x regional Emmy awards, a Cronkite, an Edward R Murrow award, and my cinematography is featured in Ron Howard’s latest film with National Geographic, “Re-building Paradise".

• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Corporate Videographer
• Drone Operator
• Production Company
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Colorist
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist

Hello! I've been a filmmaker for 7 years, running a small production company in the SF Bay Area. I've had the honor to film projects all over the world (South Sudan, Laos, Honduras, just to name a few). I am passionate about telling compelling stories in a way to really connects with the audience. Currently my largest finished project is a short documentary about micro-lot coffee farmers in Honduras. It has been shown around the world and has garnered three film festival awards. This film was a personal project that I used to learn all the aspects of filmmaking, so I did all aspects of the film and it was a great learning experience! My favorite projects are ones where I get to be involved in the strategy and development phase and when I get to travel.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Company
• Creative Director
• Event Photographer

I have had a 16+ year career as a video producer, shooter and editor. I’ve created hundreds of video stories in collaboration with dozens of high profile clients and content producers. Previously I produced at TripAdvisor, shaping travel content into concise original pieces for their global brand partners. I also spent time as a Senior Producer creating pieces and series’ at wellness startup, Thrive Global, as well as viral platform, Upworthy. I honed my craft as an editor at CNN and won an Emmy as a PBS videographer. I also directed an award winning feature documentary film that has nearly 350k views on YouTube. I’ve played every role in the production process from camera op to lead producer, director and more.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Fixer
• Commercial DP
• Production Assistant

Originally from story-rich Mississippi, I began making films with my parents' home movie camera & friends in the early '90s. Now working mostly in the world of narrative and commercial media, I spent much of my formative years living, learning & working on film/TV sets in New Orleans and abroad. Naturally curious and very inspired by travel, my passions revolve around filmmaking, writing, still photography & design, more or less the case since 6. I've spent a substantial time just roaming about everywhere with a camera as a great admirer of everyday history & the physical world and generally staying ahead of the curve. Which could explain my fascination now with all things Unreal and aerial imagery. Thanks for looking!

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Drone Operator
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Copywriter
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Commercial

Emily Fraser is an Oakland based documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. Her work has screened at Doc NYC, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, LUNAFEST, the International Wildlife Film Festival, and the Pacific Film Archive, among others. She also teaches film production and eco cinema classes at Santa Clara University and California College of the Arts. In a previous life, she worked as an environmental consultant, focusing on projects in conservation, resource management, and alternative energy. Emily holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental policy and art/architecture from the College of William and Mary and an M.F.A in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University. She shoots primarily on a C300mii.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Commercial DP
• Production Company
• Gaffer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

Emmy Award winning Bay Area / Sac based DP, camera operator, FAA certified drone operator and sound recordist with over 20 years experience. Owner of a Sony FX9, FX3, Canon C300 Mark II, Blackmagic Pocket 6K, Phantom 4 drone, 1080 HD Sony PMW-500 XDcam, Sound Devices 664 audio mixer / recorder with Lectrosonics 411a Series lavs. News, corporate, documentaries are his specialties with clients such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Late Show with David Letterman, CNN, MSNBC, ESPN, MLBtv, Bloomberg TV, The History Channel, PBS etc. Based out of Sacramento and serving the Bay Area and Los Angeles, Felix has full audio and video gear available on request: (c-stands, HMI's, LED's, silk scrims, light kits, Dana Dolly, booms)

• Sound Mixer
• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Gaffer
• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - News
• Event Photographer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Drone Operator
• Production Company

I have 30 years working professionally as a freelance writer, primarily with the Reno Gazette-Journal. This includes my work being disseminated to other Gannett publications globally. I've also been published in the Los Angeles Times and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. My stories include entertainment features, human interest, casino gaming, sports-betting and live sports coverage. I also have more than 15 years experience in the Nevada gaming industry. I worked for six years as a craps dealer in Las Vegas. In Reno, I have more than 10 years in the sports-betting industry from ticket writer to supervisor to sportsbook manager. My responsibilities as sportsbook manager included setting and moving daily betting odds, overseeing banking regulations, customer relations and hiring employees.

• Reporter / Journalist
• Audio Storyteller
• Copy Editor
• Copywriter

Owner and founder of Active Alliance creative, Jason Charles Smith got into film by sneaking his parents video camera out of the house and filming his friends and him doing stupid stunts on skateboards, bikes and the like. He started his production career in 2004 working for NBC helping with the Olympic profiles of some of America’s top athletes. From there his career took off working with the likes of NFL Films, ESPN, and The Discovery Channel to name just a few. During his years he made it a point to learn every aspect of production and post-production to make sure his talents were well-rounded. Today he loves working on documentaries telling stories of those that the world would otherwise pass by, as well as working with entities that are making the world a better place for all of us.

• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• Animator / Visual Effects Artist
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Senior Editor
• Corporate Videographer

Jonathan “Bridge” Wilson is a San Francisco based professional Production Sound Mixer who has been providing high-quality audio for mediums such as TV, film, documentaries, commercials, reality, corporate, promotional, online content and more since 2016. He also has earned a BFA in Music Production & Sound Design for Visual Media from the Academy of Art University in 2017. Jonathan’s professionalism, tenacity, and creativity is what makes him stand out from the rest of the sound community. His goal is simply to make sound, sound better. Jonathan also was a former army Ranger who served in Afghanistan from 2010 - 2013. He also has lived in China for 2 years and did some sound work there as well.

• Sound Mixer

For over 10 years I have learned the ins and outs of both large and small scale video production through hard work and hands-on experience. I have built a television studio from scratch, created an entire video department from the ground up, acted as company-wide video quality control, and have seen through the creation of shows from start to finish. I have worked for startups, large corporations and for myself as a freelancer. I know what it takes to get a video production completed with the highest standards while not going overboard with budget and concept. Most importantly, I know how to delegate and use an individual’s strengths to the group’s advantage.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Commercial DP
• Reporter / Journalist
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Animator / Visual Effects Artist
• Documentary DP
• Production Company
• Full-Service Live Production
• Corporate Videographer

Josh Freund is an award-winning documentary, narrative and commercial filmmaker. His diverse clientele range from leading brands like Nike, Mattel, Chevrolet, and Jameson Whiskey to Grammy-winning musicians. Josh's first feature film Do U Want It? won Audience Award at New Orleans Film Festival in 2017 and at SF IndieFest in 2018 and will be streaming in October 2019. He owns and operates ABIS Productions, New Orleans’ premiere video production company dedicated to creating video content for bands and musicians. Josh graduated with a BSJ from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism in 2012.

• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Fixer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Field Producer
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Senior Editor
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Corporate Videographer

Hello, I am a documentary filmmaker, sound recordist, and video producer based in the Bay Area. In a former life I was a Multimedia Producer with KQED/PBS Digital Studios of the Emmy Award winning series ART SCHOOL. Since then, I have formed my own production company MIND•SPACE•TIME that has created short-form video stories in partnership with NY Times, PBS NewsHour, AJ+, Southern Documentary Fund, to name a few. My own documentary films have won awards and screened at many prestigious film festivals around the world including DocLisboa, BFI London Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, European Media Art Festival, and many more.

• Documentary DP
• Production Company
• Field Producer
• Sound Mixer
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Audio Storyteller
• Podcast Producer

Leaf River is a journalist, filmmaker, drone cinematographer, editor, and as of recent, one man production crew. His work has appeared in AJ+, BBC, Reveal (currently Center for Investigative Reporting), Fusion, and Color Magazine. His work tends to focus on the injustices and plight thrust upon the overlooked and left behind members of modern society. He has begun working on his own feature length documentary about an immigrant woman who finds strength and meaning through working with wild horses in New Mexico. He is always ready for the challenge of taking on new work and has the gear and knowledge to handle it.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Drone Operator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Grip
• Commercial DP
• Reporter / Journalist
• Sound Mixer
• Creative Director

A graduate of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a focus in Directing and Producing, Robert Wagner has been making films since the age of eleven. He's had the privilege of working under some of the most successful creators in feature films and commercials on high-profile projects such as Horrible Bosses (New Line Cinema), Tower Heist (NBC Universal) in addition to numerous national commercial campaigns (GEICO, Nike, Quickbooks, Nissan). Obsessed with the truth in narrative, he believes that everyone has a story to tell. At the core of his work is an intense motivation to tell stories that remind us all of the humanity we share.

• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• Production Company
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Copywriter
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Fixer
• Commercial DP
• Production Assistant
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

Since 2009, James Hall has shot and edited deeply human short films for clients such as National Geographic, TIME, VICE News, People & Power, Al Jazeera America, AJ+, 60 Second Docs and others. Along with being reliable and skilled with the camera, sound, directing and producing, and editing, his greatest strengths lie in his interpersonal skills, always making real connections with both subjects and crew, and his knack at improvising creative solutions on the fly. He began his career in 2003 as a photojournalist, and is based in the Bay Area, CA and frequently takes on international projects.

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

Kevin is an award winning director, producer, shooter and editor based in San Francisco. He has created videos for Bloomberg, CNBC, CNET, Reuters and various independent clients. He has experience as a one-man-band videographer as well as a director of full tv production crews. His passion for video storytelling has allowed him to travel across the US and internationally. He has over two decades of professional experience with cameras, lenses, lighting, sound, editing software and music production. He 2009 He has received numerous accolades and awards including two Emmy Awards in Videography and Producer/Editor for his work at Plum TV in Vail, CO.

• Art Director
• Music Composer
• Sound Designer
• Creative Director
• Senior Editor
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - News
• Sound Mixer
• Field Producer
• Gaffer
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Motion Graphics Designer