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At school, Bennett discovered his first loves, drama and painting. However, he didn't enjoy acting as much as devising the scripts and painting was a lonely endeavour and an under-appreciated art form. After school, Bennett's appreciation for social sciences lead him to a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Durham University where he had time to start messing around with cameras. All of a sudden, filmmaking seemed the perfect fit for his lifelong passion. He suddenly had the freedom to use his creative sensibilities to bring life to real world stories. Bennett currently works freelance in a range of production disciplines including advertising, documentary, music videos and film. He has worked for commercial clients such as Arla, Guinness and Johnnie Walker and has made video journalism content for ITV and the Daily Telegraph. His recent film, 'A Man and His Horse,' was awarded Best Short Doc at the LA Cinema Festival of Hollywood.

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Colin Nusbaum collaborates on film, television, and commercial projects that feature dynamic storytelling and a strong visual aesthetic. He is the cinematographer and co-editor of Caveh Zahedis documentary The Sheik And I, which premiered at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival, where Film Comment called Sheik the festivals top film. In the last year, Colin also lensed feature narrative films Allure and Audition, which are both set to be released in 2013. He is currently editing the feature length documentary Tough Love, for director Stephanie Wang-Breal, which will be aired on POV in 2015. While on other documentary projects, Colin has been fortunate to work alongside award-winning directors Richard Hankin, Alex and Tanya Meillier, Michael Moore, Bob Richman, and Liz Garbus on projects for HBO Documentaries, PBS, Overture Films, and A&E Television. His television and commercial clients include Nickelodeon, Google, ISSUE Project Room, WaterDefense.org, and many others. Colin is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.

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My name is Xavier Burgin. I was born in Washington DC's cold embrace, raised in the thicket of rural Mississippi, earned a degree from Alabama's largest educational plantation, and now reside in Los Angeles. I am an African-American male currently in my third semester as a graduate student at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. I am applying through P.O.V. specifically dealing with Black Male Achievement. I direct, shoot, and produce narrative and documentary films that speak to poignant personal problems or circumstances in the community. I've directed and shot two documentaries. One dealing with mental illness in Southern Communities, and another about the tornado which hit Tuscaloosa, AL in 2011. I'm currently at USC's film school studying directing and cinematography. My last film dealt with the expectations of black male athletes to follow sports, even if they have another passion.

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Hi, My name is Jillian Arnold. I am a cinematographer from Chicago who lives in Los Angeles. I love human interest stories about courageous individuals who overcome impossible odds. I have an undergraduate degree from The University of Wisconsin-Madison and a graduate degree from Chapman University under the guidance of Bill Dill, ASC. After school, I became a camera operator/cinematographer for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA in Pasadena California.  My first mission was the 2008 Mars Phoenix Lander, a successful mission to the north pole of Mars. My work with the Mars program continued with several projects including parachute, mobility, drop and rocket testing. Along with TV ops engineer, Cory Borst, I developed the high resolution, high speed, 3D shooting product that is in place today for image analysis engineering tests. On August 5th, 2012, I participated as the lead camera operator for the Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity rover. Curiositys feat of landing a rover the size of a mini cooper on Mars is said to be a mission

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HI, My name is Matt Proctor and I'm a freelance videographer, writer and editor living in Brooklyn, NY. I was referred to your company by Shibani Balsaver, with whom I recently worked on a couple of shoots for Unicef. I have a background in many different kinds of storytelling, from fiction and poetry to theatre and film, and have a real passion for getting to know people and assembling narratives through oral and on-camera storytelling. One of the things I'm passionate and curious about are the effects of gentrification on native residents of a place, and certainly Brooklyn in the early 2010s is rife with its effects. I'd like to do a series of stories on the people who live here now, how their neighborhoods are changing beneath their feet, but also film their lives and customs as they are now so we have some record of them before they're gone. For instance, I live next door to Baptist Church in Park Slope. Every Summer they bus in kids from the South to hand out water and lemonade on the corner. I would love to see how their experience of the city may differ from mine. I also worked in restaurants for a while and would love to do a story about the lives of foodworkers in NYC.

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I am a 2013 graduate of the Medill School of Journalism, specializing in multi-media journalism, with a focus on politics and cultural reporting. I have nearly a nearly a decade of experience as a writer, reporter, and researcher. My interests include national security, political organizing, human rights, and climate change, among many others. From 2013-2014, I worked with Susan Farkas, a veteran TV producer, on short-form documentary projects completed for the UN’s International Foundation for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Al Jazeera’s program America Tonight. I also spent five months as a news assistant with NY1, where I conducted interviews and filmed video used by reporters and anchors as part of their daily packages and investigative pieces. Last fall, I was a researcher and production assistant with Jigsaw Productions, where I assisted a team of producers assembling multiple episodes for a documentary series, Death Row Stories, which aired on CNN. I grew up in New York City, and graduated from Georgetown University in 2005. From June of 2005 until September of 2007, I worked in Washington, DC for Rep. Louise M. Slaughter and the House Committee on Rules as a press and communications staffer. I then joined the Obama for America campaign as a field organizer. I worked in Iowa for three months, primarily focusing on high school outreach in towns around the state. After the caucus on January 3rd, 2008, I campaigned for Obama in Utah, Texas, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Montana, and Ohio. In May of 2009, I joined the staff of Media Matters for America, where I was a writer and media analyst until May of 2010, at which point I left the organization and moved to Chicago, IL to pursue journalism. I was an intern at the Chicago Reader from September until December, 2010, and subsequently contributed freelance blog posts and pieces to that paper.

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For the past decade Ryan Sarnowski has worked as an artist and educator. Ryan's first feature, "Passing the Baton: The Joe Sims Milwaukee Striders Story", aired on Wisconsin Public Television and he is currently working on his second feature length documentary "Last of the Lawsonomists". He also is Co-Director of doc|UWM, a documentary center based at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he has worked with students to produce over 120 short films. Ryan holds an MFA from UWM in Film Production and a BFA from Florida State University. Ryan enjoys tell stories of common people living uncommon lives. He strives to understand the social implications of his characters as they accomplish something seemingly ordinary but circumstantially difficult or change the world in their own way. Ryan comes from a background in both traditional and experimental forms of visual storytelling. Ryan aspires to incorporate more art into his documentaries while staying true to its subject. He believes unexpected visuals complement a films stories and themes while creating a unique way for viewers to engage with them. He is applying through POV to accelerate the approval process.

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NOTE: I'D LIKE TO PITCH TO POV FOR SHORT DOC ON BLACK-MALE ACHIEVEMENT & WAS TOLD TO MENTION THAT HERE. THANKS! Shannon Cohn was born and raised in rural Mississippi. The roots and realities of such an upbringing keep her compelled to tell authentic stories that inspire and challenge an audience to look beyond differences to the common threads that make us all human. She produced the short narrative films Sulphur Mountain with Mark Webber, The Memento Mori Project with Paz de la Huerta and The Potential Wives of Norman Mao with George Takei. Shannon produced the award-winning feature documentaries Neurons to Nirvana, Being in the World and 2012 Time for Change with Sting, David Lynch and Ellen Page. She produced and appears on camera in the documentary series, Sea Nation, which follows her and a friend as they sell their possessions and hitchhike on boats across the world. The show currently airs in over 60 countries on Discovery Channel International and National Geographic. Shannon attended the Graduate Film Program at NYUs Tisch School of the Arts and has a law degree from Vanderbilt University.

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After having worked for Rotary International for seven years as an international grants coordinator (I am fluent in Spanish and French), I decided to return to school to get my masters degree at the Medill School of Journalism in the hope of developing skills to tell meaningful, impactful stories. After completing my first documentary, I was hooked. Now that Ive graduated, I would love to work for a company to make quality short news or documentary pieces. I believe my experiences working as a video journalist for Agence France-Presse and making a short documentary would be assets in developing pieces like these. I am interested in covering news of all topics as can be seen in my video reel on my website: www.ashleylapin.com. I like to hunt for stories that are human interest stories. In addition, I like to cover breaking news. As long as I have the video camera in my hand, I will find a story and make a piece out of it.

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Ron Adkins, (Stylized as Mister@dkins depending on my mood) born and raised in New York City has been behind the lens, shooting, some of the most memorable and influential figures from music, television, and film. Its highly unlikely that you arent familiar with at least one project that he was behind. With over 10 years of experience within the industry, Ron brings with him a strong storytelling and artistic background, which gives him a unique visual eye as, witnessed in his diverse work. His knowledge of writing scripts, storyboards and treatments gives him the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment. As a film student, Ron was awarded Best Documentary Director at the MoMa Thompson Ave Festival 2004 for his documentary Subway Entertainment, a short film documenting subway street performers. Fresh out of College Ron then was presented with the opportunity to work with 50 Cent where he was responsible for producing content for his label.Ron also speaks and instructs video courses at a variety of education institutions such as The Digital Arts Experience and The Harlem Childrens Zone.

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Hi, I am applying through POV under the American Promise assignment. I'm Sam Hampton PhD, co-founder of Docs In Progress, a nonprofit located in the DC metro area dedicated to creating community through documentary. I have two recent films. Hidden Books the Art of Kumi Korf, about a Japanese American artist, received the CINE Golden Eagle Award. Mr. Stokes' Mission, the story of a Civil Rights educator and plaintiff of Brown v. Board of Education, has played at many film festivals and schools. My current project is a one-hour documentary titled, Transcending Surgeon. The film is about trauma surgeon Dr. Edward Cornwell III, who is the Chief of Surgery at Howard University Hospital in Washington, DC. The film explores Dr. Cornwell's family upbringing, mentors, education and other guiding forces that led to his successful career. It does so in the context of African American pioneers in medicine, and that many of his patients represent the realities of another side of urban African American life, communities beset by poverty, inadequate education and and violence. Transcending Surgeon is a story that connects with viewers in a way that is real and thought provoking.

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Passionate. In one word, that's how my closest friends would describe me. I have moved from veterinary medicine to pure mathematics to documentary filmmaking. I finished my first short documentary, Atomic Dream, for my thesis at UC Berkeley last year. I am endlessly curious and fascinated by people. And I have an eye for design. For stories, I tend to be attracted to character studies, stories related to science, in some way, and anything that pushes the boundaries of visual storytelling. Good stories move us emotionally and change, if even slightly, the way we perceive the world around us. I will chase down any story that sparks my interest. And once I'm on the scent, I don't give up. I grew up in Denver in a lower-middle class suburbia. One like any other. I moved to Santa Barbara in 1999 where I earned a B.Sc. in Mathematics. I also received a Masters in Mathematics from UW - Madison in 2008 and a Masters in Journalism from UC Berkeley in 2013. So, yeah, I would say I'm curious and passionate.

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I am a 23 year old photojournalist that just graduated from Brooks Institute. My goal as a filmmaker is to filter truth to the public on issues such as, corruption in politics, corruption with pharmaceutical drugs, the imbalance between the rich and the poor, and what is our foods evolution going to look like in the next decade. The video link I sent you is a 30 min documentary that me and two of my classmates worked on for 3 years. It is a story about alternative living and creating a life surrounded by nature. The story is told through a young family that lived in a yurt, in Ojai CA, and brought there daughter into this world through a home birth. There is nothing that I enjoy more than telling and creating a packable story to share with others. I spent a year locked in a room editing this documentary and I know that it is only the beginning of my career as a documentarian and film editor. I know that I would be a great contribution to your team. I have an excellent work ethic and am very committed to projects. I look forward to collaborating in hopes to create media that matters, through stories that matter.

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Hi team I'm Ranjini Srinivasan, a digital journalist from Columbia University. I am extremely passionate about doing stories that propel a social change. I've worked as a onemanband reporter for NBC, News 12 and NY1. I've been an associate producer for PBS' Worldfocus, a pilot international newscast. I've developed strong bonds in the community I've reported in and my sources are still in touch. I did exclusives on a domestic violence victim and got her case worker on camera, for the first time. I am passionate about human interest stories. I feel privileged to meet people from diverse backgrounds and earn their trust to share their stories in the community. Stories that would inform, educate and / entertain. I also did a 24-min documentary on Parents of children with autism, from concept to air. I have managed newsroom crises and can think on my feet if something doesn't turn out as planned. I thrive in a like-minded team that is passionate about great visual story-telling and believes in team work. My link: www.beyondheadlines.tv has my news reel and documentary. I am working on other stories. I truly look forward to hearing from you. Best Ranjini.

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When I found out that Brian Babylon hosted a weekly comedy show in Bronzeville, I immediately thought that there was an interesting video piece there. The show was something unique for a neighborhood known more for its urban decay than for its entertainment options. I biked out to the heart of Bronzeville twice with a camera and sound equipment in my backpack. I got some great footage and had some good laughs. Then I organized an interview with Brian at his place of work and put together the video in time for the launch of the South Side Weeklys new website. He loved the video, and so did my editors. Many other reporters at the paper had had ideas for video projects but I was the only reporter to follow through with a finished product for publication. A good storyteller has to know how to craft a narrative over multiple mediums. I have taken the effort to gain experience in all aspects of documentary video production, DSLR photography, audio editing for radio, and news writing. Please visit my profile at http://dovebarbanel.wordpress.com/ to view clips of my work in video, photography and radio as well as my written articles. Thank you.

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My background is in filmmaking. I am in development of a long form documentary about transnational abandonment and immigrant women's rights. The process of creating a film is quite long and there are many stories passing by that I think need attention, so I'm eager to move more into news. I am interested in focusing on immigrant and refugee stories: struggles of undocumented immigrants, families separated by borders, refugees creating new homes, cultures shifting in a new landscape. Having lived in NYC for the past 8 years, I have worked alongside, befriended and taught people from all over the world. Their unique perspectives and struggles form an important part of our identity and chapter in our history. And, I believe their stories deserve attention from a thoughtful, open eye. I am also interesting in doing profiles on unique individuals: the Olympian back to daily life after the games, principal dancers traveling with the American Ballet Theater, the community leader behind the political machine. Giving others a glimpse of these public figures when they are not in the spotlight will provide an unseen perspective and reflect the culture that produces these roles.

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A pioneer in the DIY filmmaking movement, Boonsri has been profiled by several prominent media publications, most recently in TechCrunch and Scientific American, for her innovative use of digital technologies. As a journalist, Boonsri has written and produced thought-provoking features on issues such as genetics, medicine, astronomy, consumer technology, startups, privacy, and the BYOD trend. She has written for Discover Magazine, Thomson Reuters Venture Capital Journal, Wired, Forbes, CNET, Business Insider, CBS interactives SmartPlanet and BYTE. She has interviewed some of the worlds top scientists and entrepreneurs such as paleontologist Jack Horner and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. She holds a Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she studied particular collision and complex systems in the pharmaceutical industry. As an undergraduate, Boonsri studied microfluidics and material science. Boonsri is based in New York City.

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At worst a I'm a con artist, at best a raconteur. I'm also a writer and filmmaker. In Feb. 2013 I was handpicked by the Sundance Institute to participate in their inaugural Screenwriters Intensive with my feature script DOLORES. Most recently I was credited as co-director & editor of THE STATE OF ARIZONA (ITVS) about Arizonas controversial Papers, please law. Currently I write on a freelance basis for websites such as Remezcla and Warscapes about film, music, culture, politics and heavy existential stuff. I like to tell stories about and within the Latino community regarding immigration, race, gender, labor, social justice, women issues and identity. I like to explore questions in the LGBT community that deal with sexuality, shame and normalcy (how it's defined and by whom). I have interest in politics and policy, specifically how they function on an everyday level and directly impact individuals. Lastly, I have a deep appreciation for art, and love to wax philosophical about how aesthetics, technology and culture meet/collide.

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Sabrina Thompson is a videographer, photographer and creator of KUUphotography.com a multi-media haven for clients to showcase their life's moments through cinematic short films or incredible photography. In 2013 Thompson partnered with Frontline Solutions' production of Under Construction, a racial justice and movement building video project that tells the story of twelve organizations working to improve the lives of Boys and Men of Color (BMOC) throughout the United States. These 12 organizations span the U.S.from Jackson, Mississippi to Anchorage, Alaskaworking with diverse populations of young men. Under Construction tells the story of these organizations and the communities they serve in four distinct and complementary ways: A narrative written profile that tells the story of the organization; A photographic essay; A brief (5-7 minute) documentary video; and an info-graphic program model that depicts the organizations activities and impact. Under Construction is a collaborative effort with the aim of expanding the conversation about what it looks like to effectively promote opportunities for young men of color through a range of innovative, community-rooted approaches.

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My name is Christina Brown and I am a military veteran and Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist, based in New York City. Last week, I discovered Storyhunter.tv through Eric Paternot, when he spoke to my video story telling class at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where I am a MS student, specializing in documentary film-making. Most recently, I developed, co-created and was the host of the international talk show, "Our Take," a news and lifestyle show featuring people and stories related and of interest to women, of the African diaspora, that aired on Arise Media Networks, (arise.tv). I was a network news anchor and correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC cable network, but before embarking on a career in broadcast news I spent several years in the U.S. Air Force. I'm most interested in covering issues that affect military veterans and women. My print articles and opinion pieces have appeared in the Huffington Post & I'm currently developing a docu-series about returned veterans' adjustment to life back at home.

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