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With a background in Anthropology and Photography, I am working on a Master’s Degree in Media Innovation. My goal is to illustrate the #ClimateCrisis. Photography is a lifelong passion of mine. I draw from my experiences working as an archaeologist across the country, in kitchens as a cook, and a father of two in order to connect with communities. Ever since I first picked up a camera as a child, I have been obsessed with chasing light and remain committed to a lifelong pursuit of storytelling. I use both digital and film to document people, places and things; all the while crafting engaging visual stories. Having studied the history of photography, I continue by studying contemporary photographer’s work to push my craft forward. As a Solutions-based journalist, I work to craft images focused on not just the problems, but how people overcome adversity and reach a happy ending. When not crafting stories that matter, I can be found traveling and camping with my wife and two daughters, tending a garden, baking bread, and playing the banjo. As an avid conservationist, everything I do is guided by the wisdom of Nature. For more information or to hire me, you can direct all inquiries through the contact form here.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Audio Storyteller
• Reporter / Journalist
• Podcast Producer
• Sound Mixer
• Graphic Designer
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary

I am an accountant by profession, but my passion for photography has led her to train in the Roberto Mata Taller de Fortografia (Roberto Mata Photography Workshop). My documentary-style work focuses on the social problems of her country. I had worked on the crisis experienced by the elderly in Venezuela, the rudeness of childbirth in very low socio-economic contexts, the health system and education in times of pandemic in vulnerable areas. I am a documentary and journalist photographer born in Venezuela based in Miami, I have develop long term visual projects about Venezuela ́s crisis, focused on collaborative ways to speak about the human condition under hostile contexts. I am part of the exhibitions of Women Street Photographer. As a Freelance Photographer I have collaborated for Prodavinci, Cinco 8, The New Humanitarian, Open Democracy, and AFP (Agence France-Press) I was awarded second place in the first biennial of documentary photography in honor of Venezuelan photographer Wil Riera with her work "Vejez Abandonada". I recently exhibited one of her photographs at ICP in New York.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer

Leanna Ernest is a Chicago based makeup artist specializing in commercial, editorial, and beauty makeup. From a young age she always possessed a love for making art, painting and drawing, and a natural curiosity to create. After graduating from music school with Bachelor's in Vocal Performance , she discovered it was possible to make a career out of makeup. She was drawn to makeup artistry because it allowed her to combine her many creative interests. Leanna loves both the creative aspects of makeup artistry as well as many opportunities to collaborate with other creatives. She also loves any opportunity to work with women and help them embrace their own unique beauty. Leanna is most known for her beauty, commercial and editorial work. She loves creating flawless, beautiful skin, fresh natural looks, and more avant garde, artistic looks. Her distinctive style and passion for makeup have made her a highly sought after artist. Leanna is represented by The Distinct Artist Agency in Chicago.

• Hair and Make-up Artist

Judi Ketteler has been writing stories since she was old enough to hold a pencil. Now, she is a collaborator in storytelling. She makes her living strategizing with businesses to figure out how to best tell their story, from websites and videos to speeches and books. Much of her current work involves content strategy and content writing for hospitals and healthcare systems. She's helped more than a dozen hospitals launch new websites, with content strategies built around empathy, clarity, and web writing best practices. She believes that clear communication in healthcare should be a human right. Judi got her professional start working at an agency as a copywriter, but has been on her own as a full-time freelance writer since 2002. A magazine-industry veteran, Judi has written for dozens of consumer magazines, such as Better Homes & Gardens, Good Housekeeping, Runner’s World, Self, Women’s Health, and many others. An essay she wrote for Whole Living won ASJA's award for "Best Magazine Essay" in 2011. She frequently contributes essays to NBCNews.com and The New York Times. She’s also a regular columnist for Cincinnati Magazine, where she writes pieces about the weirdness of midlife. Mostly, she writes about honesty, and is the author of WOULD I LIE TO YOU? THE AMAZING POWER OF BEING HONEST IN A WORLD THAT LIES (Citadel Press, 2020). She is also the author of two non-fiction books about sewing: SEW RETRO (Voyageur Press, 2010) and THE SPOONFLOWER HANDBOOK (Abrams, 2015). When she’s not writing, Judi loves running, yoga, reading, sewing, doing back flips on the trampoline, and going to flea markets. She lives with her husband and two children in Cincinnati, Ohio.

• Copywriter
• Reporter / Journalist
• Digital Content Creator

Evelyn has always loved to perform. She started with children’s theatre, attended a performing arts high school, and studied voice and acting. Even as an art major in college, she also performed in the theatre. She just can’t stay away. To this day, she continues to sing and act, performing with multiple choirs, theatre groups, and singing professionally with chamber choruses and as a soloist. What she knows about acting, interpreting words and music, and creating a performance informs all her voiceovers. Each project represents a story to tell, an emotion to evoke, an idea to express. She has the foundation to present a great performance, and carries with her the hallmarks of true artistry. She applies her love of performance in other professional situations, too – as a presenter, moderator, teacher, and narrator in educational and business settings. Her intelligence, her ability to inhabit a character, and a voice ranging from “champagne to whiskey” can bring words and characters to life.

• Audio Storyteller
• Graphic Designer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Art Director

As a proofreader, it is my honor and privilege to work with writers and content creators of all kinds. I'm a self-motivated proofreader with an exceptional command of the English language, an accurate eye for detail, and the skills to improve the flow and readability of written words. My aim is to guide aspiring and established writers to discover the unseen potential of their work through detail-oriented proofreading, unbiased and sincere feedback, and a spirit of collaboration. I am a graduate of Proofread Anywhere and completed the General Proofreading: Theory and Practice course, which is a hands-on training program of study designed to facilitate proficiency in the art of proofreading for content creators. My studies involved proofreading a minimum of 40 documents. Passing the course’s final exam required me to proofread a manually graded essay and earn at least a 90 percent grade to pass and receive my official Certificate of Completion.

• Copy Editor

John is a principal with Nimble Digital Media. He is a digital specialist, as well as a creative, technically savvy director/producer of film and video. With 25 years of traditional and new media production experience, John brings to bear proven visual messaging expertise, and helps clients develop and execute the right blend of tactics to achieve objectives across all screens and channels. He began his career as a photographer and director of photography, and soon moved into producing and directing for film and video. John has been responsible for a wide range of projects, developing and overseeing creative treatments, as well as managing crews and budgets on feature films, commercials, and documentaries. John has produced for British Channel 4, Japanese NHK, and German ZDF, PBS and other U.S. Networks. Additionally, he has consulted, produced and directed projects for major U.S. corporations including Abbott, Boeing BP, CDW and Groupon as well as Georgetown, Northwestern and Johns Hopkins Universities. An award-winning director and producer, John has earned an Emmy, three Tellys, A Kodak Award and Cine Golden Eagle. His work has placed in several international film festivals including Best Feature and Audience Award at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and Tribeca Features Festival.

• Production Company
• Field Producer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Executive Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary

(Mobile filmmaker, based in the U.S. but this platform requires a city so put Tampa as we are in and out of Florida often :) ) Koura Linda started writing out character development and script ideas and shot lists in her composition notebooks as a kid. Notorious for her elaborate crepe-paper birthday party decorations and painting murals on the walls of her bedroom, she was working as an art teacher's assistant as soon as she could legally hold a job. Fast forward about a decade, after stumbling in with Art Dept crew one summer, she quickly fell in love with production design and spent the next 10 years working on set and event design, eventually getting into full production design. Knowing that production design entails more than just the set, Koura studied acting and writing and camera and lighting, working as a day-player where she could, eventually taking a 3-day rigging intensive to become a certified set rigger and later working with electric, rigging lights on concert stages across LA. When she wasn't 50 feet in the air on a truss rig she'd helped build, she was studying design and make-up and wardrobe, eventually moving up to Art Director and then Production Designer then Event Producer for large private events, soon followed by Art Dept work in music videos, TV shows, and short films. With such a strong background and familiarity across so many departments with hands-on experience, it was a small jump over to Producing and Directing. Since the release of her first SAG short film in 2016, Koura has directed and produced just under 20 projects accepted to film festivals internationally, which have received over 60 award nominations and have won 22 awards. August 2019, Koura was awarded The Mico Award for Innovation, Courage, Excellence in Film in Las Vegas, for her career thus far as an Independent Filmmaker. In addition to work across various projects, including her podcast "Filmmaking (actually)", Koura is currently in development on her second feature film, the upcoming optimistic drama, "Comic Relief." Her first feature, "Catching the Light" filmed Sept 2020, is in post production and slated for release 2021.

• Production Company
• Creative Director
• Post-Production Manager
• Podcast Producer

Lindsey Seavert is an Emmy, Edward R. Murrow, and Alfred I. duPont award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker fueled by a calling to bring untold stories to light. ​The legacy of teaching in her family inspires Lindsey to use stories as a vehicle to empower, educate, create empathy and spark systemic change. Her parents were Minnesota public school teachers who gave her the gift of curiosity, so with a book and pencil often in hand, she began writing as a young child, and hasn't stopped since. ​She worked as a reporter at five news stations stretching from Northern Minnesota, Nevada, and Ohio before coming home to the Twin Cities and working as a reporter at WCCO-TV and KARE-11 TV. In 2020, Lindsey moved to a freelance journalist and filmmaking role after releasing her first award-winning documentary, Love Them First. ​The feature-length documentary, created at KARE 11, features a courageous Minneapolis principal fighting to get her students off the list of ‘failing’ schools while grappling with Minnesota’s vast achievement gap between Black and White students. ​The film, which received one of journalism’s highest honors with the 2020 Alfred I. duPont award, has been applied into collegiate educational curriculum, featured at national education conferences and utilized at countless education staff development workshops. The impact is only beginning, and Lindsey hopes to continue this advocacy, raising consciousness about the intersection of race and education, as she explores future film projects. Her work often focuses on women, families and children in underrepresented communities. Much of her inspiration comes from her late father, who spent his career advocating for teachers. ​Lindsey is dedicated to mentoring young journalists and volunteering in the Twin Cities community. ​Her hobbies include running, fitness and creative writing. The greatest chapters of her own story feature her family, her husband Ian, her son Stellan and daughter, Phoebe. They live in southwest Minneapolis.

• Documentary DP
• TV News Producer
• Field Producer
• Podcast Producer
• Reporter / Journalist

A media professional with more than 17 years of experience finding, crafting and editing stories -- including work in newspapers, radio, television and online news. As Executive Producer for Digital Media, I managed a team of five producers and four digital assistants creating content that recruits viewers to KIRO 7’s digital platforms, including our website, Facebook page, channels on Amazon Fire and Apple TV, and the KIRO 7 News apps. That role included creating and editing video for each of our platforms, planning and executing social media strategy, and coordinating all livestreams. Doubled KIRO’s daily traffic average in the first year, launched KIRO’s Smart TV apps and our Roku platform became the top local news station on that platform worldwide. Awards include a 2014 Emmy Award for political coverage, a 2017 Emmy for team coverage and a 2018 Emmy Award for crime coverage. As a reporter, I was among the handful selected to transition the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper into Seattlepi.com. Roles were often self-initiated, including video and audio projects. I also oversaw the vast P-I archives and coordinated the partnerships that led to preservation at the Museum of History and Industry and the Seattle Public Library’s Seattle Room. As a reporter at the P-I’s print edition, I crafted thousands of stories by building a network of diverse sources, including confidential sources, public officials, law enforcement officers, sports figures, historians, archivists, and trusted community leaders. After the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, I was selected along a handful of Hearst journalists to tell the stories of Sandy Hook. Stories ran in the network of Hearst Newspapers and news websites, and my contributions included text, video and photos. Additional experience includes a nightly news segment on KIRO Radio, a Seattle history podcast for Seattlepi.com, work at KJR AM and FM in Seattle, overseeing the KIRO 7 archives and creating a partnership to digitize and preserve those through the University of Washington Special Collections. Undergraduate degree is in Business Administration – Marketing.

• Video Editor - News
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Executive Producer
• Audio Storyteller
• Reporter / Journalist
• Transcriber
• Podcast Producer
• Social Media Producer
• Content Strategist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Fixer

Fatiha Belfakir is a freelance reporter. She has been writing professionally since 2018. As a reporter, she has found herself passionate about a variety of interests, including current events, culture, and politics to name a few. She worked for the Extremist Watch Desk at Voice of America, where she was provided with extensive exposure to news collection, interpretation, and analysis. She covered international affairs and she wrote about terrorism, human right abuse, and crimes. At the Baltimore Times, Fatiha Belfakir is covering Health, education and racism in the State of Maryland. She is constantly learning new techniques to tell a story to both local and international viewers. Additionally, Fatiha Belfakir has a master’s degree in Journalism from Georgetown University, a master’s in international Peace and Conflict Resolution from Arcadia University, and a master’s degree in public administration from Strayer University. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Languages and Communication Studies from the Highest Institutes for Languages and Communication Studies (ILCS) in Rabat, Morocco and completed her senior year at Lock Haven University, Pennsylvania under an international students exchange program.

• Reporter / Journalist

Alejandro de los Rios is an award-winning Cuban-Venezuelan writer and filmmaker based in New Orleans who has worked with the New Orleans Saints & Pelicans, Warner Brothers, MGM, HBO, A&E Networks, Netflix, ESPN, NFL Network and FOX Sports. Alejandro directed “Distant Mardi Gras” which premiered at the 2020 New Orleans Film Festival. He was the series director of “9 for No. 9,” a 9-part documentary on New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees. He won ‘Best Editing’ & ‘Best Sound Design’ at the 2015 New Orleans 48 Hour Film Fest and was named to the New Orleans Film Festival’s Emerging Voices Program in 2017. He directed and starred in the short film “Jalapeño Andretti,” which premiered at the 2017 Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival. Raised outside Washington D.C., he studied writing at Ithaca College and then worked as a freelance journalist writing for ESPN the Magazine, VICE, the Associated Press, Deadspin and others.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Drone Operator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Commercial

Mosheh is an Emmy, Murrow and Webby Award-winning Executive Producer who brings a veteran perspective to TV and digital production. Throughout his career, he has led teams at major media companies dedicated to building products and developing new approaches to storytelling and content creation for all platforms. He provides comprehensive solutions for video production, content strategy, brand messaging and digital transformation. He has experience developing content for mobile, social media and OTT platforms. In 2018, Mosheh was named the youngest-ever executive producer of the “CBS Evening News," where he led more than 150 personnel and coverage of everything from the war on ISIS to natural disasters, mass shootings to presidential interviews, building agile teams on the ground and from headquarters focused on producing award-winning content. Prior to that, Mosheh made digital history at the network, overseeing the launch of CBSN, the first- of-its-kind 24/7 live streaming news network in 2014 for mobile and OTT platforms. As the channel’s first executive producer, he led the hiring and build-out of the editorial and production operation—growing to a 100+ person team—producing a linear broadcast, original series and hundreds of daily VOD assets. Mosheh helped to build additional 24/7 streaming networks devoted to sports, entertainment and several local news operations.

• Executive Producer

I'm built to tell stories of people and brands moving the world forward. I have an inexhaustible energy and love for life that's simply contagious. A NYC native, I'm a filmmaker and aspiring award-winning Producer & Director. I moved to Washington DC to escape my hometown of Brooklyn, NY. I studied Digital Cinematography at Full Sail University. I am a strong conceptual thinker, outstanding visual and strategically focused creative with proven leadership abilities. Hands-on leader in creative concepting and strategy development. I have been consulting & working for non-profits & production companies to help with creative concept development for media, broadcast television, web & mobile. I have extensive understanding of marketing and brand objectives, consumer needs, and the value of effective communications. I believe that to be effective in today’s world, you need to know what your message is, how to communicate it, and where to strategically market it. As an artist I hopes to create compelling stories for television, features, and digital. I pride myself on incubating, developing, and producing work that speaks to a cross-cultural audience. ​

• Production Company
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Drone Operator
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Portrait Photographer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Event Photographer
• TV News Producer
• Fashion Photographer
• Social Media Producer
• Senior Editor
• Full-Service Live Production
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Creative Director

Selected as one of Variety Magazine's 'Top 10 Directors to Watch', Emily Abt has directed six feature films - four documentaries and two narratives. Her social issue, character driven films have premiered at Sundance and aired on networks such as Showtime, Starz and PBS. Known for taking on delicate subject matter with skill and diplomacy, Emily is equally passionate about narrative and documentary filmmaking with extensive experience in both as a writer, director and producer. Emily is also a seasoned documentary cinematographer and branded content director who has created films for clients such as 23andMe, Microsoft, Janssen, Pfizer and Oracle. Abt was a Brooklyn based filmmaker for 20 years who moved to the Bay Area in 2016 with her family when her husband became a professor at UC Berkeley. She is a member of New Day Films, Free the Bid, Film Fatales and the Collective of Documentary Women Cinematographers. Emily believes film is the most powerful communication tool of our time and loves to collaborate with fellow storytellers.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Production Company
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Commercial DP

My peers and colleagues often describe me as a newshound. Since 2007, I have contributed and launched local and national platforms (print, online, TV, and radio ) through reporting, producing, and project management. My specialties are helping organizations stimulate audience engagement and growth through digital and social media using native and targeted campaigns. I am passionate about storytelling and news coverage because I believe that journalists are the first draft writers of history and find it an invaluable public service to inform the public in with accurate info. In my spare time, I am an advocate for two significant causes close to my heart. One is creating more diverse newsrooms and coverage across the country through my involvement with the Boston and Southern New England Chapters of the National Association of Black Journalists, Inc. Second is helping the community of Grand-Goave, Haiti, through the work of the Be-Like-Brit Foundation, a non-profit that operates a Children's home and health clinic there established after the 2010 Earthquake. Lastly, I am passionate of all things aviation, and I am studying to get a private pilot's and drone operator license. You can find more about me by visiting my website at ronycamille.com.

• Field Producer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• TV News Producer
• Drone Operator
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Production Assistant
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Audio Storyteller
• Social Media Producer
• Executive Producer
• Content Strategist
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Reporter / Journalist

Described by Boards Magazine as the “Soulful Surrealist”, Ben portrays experience through unexpected images that are both touching and unsettling. This balance between charm and discomfort, humanity and visual-wonder is the heart of his work. Ben’s work has been featured in Boards Magazine, Shots Magazine, Stash Magazine, Creativity Magazine, Motionographer, and on countless blogs and festivals around the world. Ben was featured as a Best New Director at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival as part of the Saatchi and Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase and named a Young Gun by the ADC. His promo for the band Beast was nominated for Best Music Video at the Grammys. His holiday Campaign for Samsung garnered a Cannes Lion and he recently directed a VR experience through Wieden and Kennedy for Samsung. He has worked for clients such as Coca-Cola, Sprite, Google, Kellogg’s, Samsung, Unilever and Nintendo to name a few. Ben’s favorite films contain images and ideas that come from a personal place which have been transposed to unexpected visual worlds populated by charming, unforgettable characters. He wishes to transport audiences to places that are both familiar but imagined. Ben is currently developing his first feature film, Foxblood, a dark thriller, and in production on the VR experience Marco Polo Go Round, a surreal, romantic comedy that has been finance by telefilm Canada and Arte in France.

• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Creative Director

I am a director, producer, shooter and editor with experience in both editorial and branded content. I started my career working in documentary series on television at a small production company where I learned everything from being a production assistant or holding a boom pole, to producing, story editing, and directing. I worked on have been OCEAN WARRIORS (executively produced by Robert Redford) which traced activists, journalists and scientists working to fight poachers and organized crime in oceans across the globe, HBO’s CLASS DIVIDE which looked at NYC’s gentrification and growing inequality through the microcosm of one city block, and Emmy-nominated docu-seris FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM. Over the past several years, I have produced and directed branded content for companies such as JetBlue, Samsung, Google, Ballast Point and many others. My work has been seen by millions. I recently directed and produced my own short documentary, where it won the film festival it premiered at and will be airing on television later this month. I work on projects from concept to completion and am actively seeking the next story to tell!

• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Creative Director
• Post-Production Manager
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Field Producer

Rebecca Stern is a director and producer living in Brooklyn, NY. She directed WELL GROOMED, which premiered at SXSW and was released by HBO in 2019. She is the producer of TRE MAISON DASAN, a documentary exploring the lives of children affected by parental incarceration (IndependentLens PBS 2019). She is the Co-Producer of NETIZENS, a documentary delving into the effects of online sexual harassment (Tribeca 2018). She was the associate producer of “the bomb,” an innovative installation and film which premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival and the 2017 Berlinale Film Festival. She started out in documentary as the production coordinator of Academy Award nominated and Emmy-winning documentary CARTEL LAND, which premiered at Sundance, was broadcast on A&E, and released worldwide theatrically. She previously was a staff member of Picture Motion, the leading film impact firm, managing film marketing campaigns for acclaimed documentaries including FOOD CHAINS (2016 BritDocImpact Award) and THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING. Rebecca is also a NY Regional Representative of the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA) and a pga accredited producer.

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Creative Director
• Fixer

Suzette Burton is an award winning filmmaker, producer, and editor. While attending Pratt Institute, Suzette directed several films and video installations including a documentary entitled "Disconnected" about her father’s mysterious death. Since graduating film school, Suzette has co- produced the documentary "Daddy Don't Go" directed by Emily Abt. The film is also executive produced by Omar Epps and Malik Yoba. It aired on the Starz network in 2015 and screened at over 30 film festivals, winning 8 best documentary awards. Suzette has also worked as an assistant editor on the documentary "Little White Lie" as well as a producer and editor for a variety of companies such as WEtv/AMC Networks, Pureland Pictures, One Kreate, MRT Creative, The Moth, Atlas Media, Black Entertainment Television, Mr. Youth (Biggest Loser: Million Pound Match up tour, Neutrogena, and Microsoft), Stick Figure Productions (Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane). Recently she was an assistant editor for Unladylike2020 which is 26 short films and a broadcast hour on PBS American Masters profiling diverse and little-known American women from the turn of the 20th century, and contemporary women who follow in their footsteps. Suzette is currently a sizzle editor for Blumhouse Productions / Disarming Films and a documentary teaching artist at City Lore. She is also the owner of Concrete Dreams Productions L.L.C. and is directing a documentary entitled "Susy." She resides in the New York City area and looks forward to directing and producing more films in the future.

• Documentary DP
• Field Producer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Fixer
• Production Assistant