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2014-2015 W42ST Magazine New York, NY Photographer • Coverage of weekly assignments • Editorial • Fashion • Environmental Portraits • Photo Essay • Food 2009-2013 Contratiempo Magazine Chicago, IL - Editorial Board Member - Photographer and Videographer • Photographic journalism and video coverage of the different events produced by the magazine. • Contributed to the photographic section of the magazine 2009-2013 National Museum of Mexican Art Chicago, IL Photographer and Documentarian • Filmed and photographed community events for the Museum’s archives and produced four mini-documentaries. -Teaching Artist and Lead Mentor •Designed the curriculum for and directed an after school program targeting students with low academic performance including. performing arts, digital movie making, and photography.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist

Documentary filmmaker and doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Anthropology faculty at Bates College in Maine and working on a documentary film about storytelling and crisis in Iceland. Located in Portland, ME and occasionally lives in Reykjavík area of Iceland. Previously worked on research, digital media, exhibit and video projects for the Discovery Channel, The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, The Film/Video Dept. of The Walker Art Center, the Eric Carle Museum for Picture Book Art, Powell’s Books (Portland, OR), and most recently Curiosity Retreats, LLC. Specializes in interview-based documentary video productions. Skilled in nose-to-tail video production and post-production. Available for projects all over Midwest and Iceland. Will travel for the right project.

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

I am a creative in post-production who has been an Avid, Premiere, and FCP editor for more than a decade. I am fortunate to have worked with a broad range of clients including broadcast networks, corporate clients, ad agencies, and documentary filmmakers. Most recently I’ve been producing promos for broadcast and social media distribution. This diverse spectrum of work environments has taught me to work quickly and efficiently with a variety of producers, both as a team player and flying solo when necessary. I am adept at juggling projects, organizational tasks, implementing graphics, incorporating music effectively, and taking and properly executing notes. In addition to a background in all elements of post-production, I also have had considerable experience in pre-production and production, including content creation, shooting, and directing. I greatly enjoy exercising those muscles when the opportunity arises.

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

Currently in the United States but ordinarily based in the Middle East, I am a freelance photojournalist contributing to NurPhoto. My photographs have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, Bild, Le Monde, El Pais, The Globe & Mail, Haaretz, Getty Images, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, Deutsche Welle, United Press International, Bloomberg News Photos, New York Post, Mother Jones, Foreign Policy, DPA-Picture Alliance, The Jerusalem Post, Al-Quds, Monocle, National Geographic News, Archaeology, and Ma’an Images. I also served as the British Embassy-Tel Aviv’s official photographer for nearly a decade, and shoot routinely for other diplomatic missions, NGOs and private interests. I was selected as a 2020-2022 Harvard University RCPI Fellow to conduct a long-term documentary photography project. I was awarded a Rory Peck Trust Training Bursary in 2013 to participate in an intensive hostile-environment training course at Columbia Journalism School. In 2014, I was certified as a battlefield first aid provider by RISC Training.

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

Digital Bodega (DB) is a full-service boutique production company based in the South Bronx Post House that serves global brands and agencies, including Sony Pictures Entertainment, Nike, Jordan, Wieden+Kennedy, Time Warner, JPMorgan Chase and Atlantic Records with custom story-driven media solutions, strategic trends insight, and outstanding original content. DB is powered by top Ghetto Film School program graduates who apply their creative and technical skills to meet the needs of evolving needs of commercial clients. 100% of all DB profits go directly to support GFS’ free creative education programs, providing hundreds of young emerging filmmakers of color with unlimited access to industry-grade equipment, training, technology and resources. And what kind of stories can we tell? Corporate, Branded, Promos, Short Documentaries, Music Videos, Web content – you name it, we serve it. Take a look of some of our work below, and let us tell your story.

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

Sebastian Diaz is a New York based filmmaker and Emmy awarded editor (THE AND web series) originally from Mexico. His short documentary TOÑITA'S was a part of MoMA Documentary Fortnight 2014. His feature doc BRILLIANT SOIL was awarded the Material Culture & Archeology Film Prize at RAI Fest of Ethnographic Film, Edinburgh 2011. Sebastian photographed and edited the award winning documentary TIJUANEADOS ANONYMOUS. He co-founded BULBO Art Collective, which produced a documentary series broadcast in US and Mexico about Tijuana-San Diego border culture where he was raised (Univision and Channel 22). His work has been exhibited internationally at MoMA (NY), ARCO (Madrid), The MAK Museum (Vienna), InSite_05 (Tijuana-San Diego), among many others. He has recently produced work for organizations such as the BBC, the Guggenheim Museum and Carnegie Hall. Sebastian curates Mexican cinema in different venues in New York with his 'Proyector' film series.

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

Rachel Beth Anderson, a Sundance award wining cinematographer, has filmed around the world in several conflict zones including Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Egypt, Turkey, and South Sudan, for CNN Heros, PBS Frontline, Human Rights Watch, and independent feature documentaries First To Fall and E-TEAM. After participating in a Fulbright sponsored Journalism program based in Cairo, Rachel graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Journalism school where she filmed and co-produced a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award winning doc Breaking Down Barriers. Rachel officially made the move to Cairo, Egypt in 2010. During the 2011 Egyptian revolution Rachel worked as a videographer and field producer for PBS Frontline. Her footage from the uprising is also included in multiple long form documentaries for BBC, POV and independent feature films Zero-Silence and Uprising. Rachels award winning documentary, First To Fall, was borne of a 7-month journey spanning the Libyan war. Her directorial debut film was a Gucci/TriBeCa grant recipient (2012) and had its World Premier screening at the International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) in late 2013. Currently in the 2014 festival circuit.

• Documentary DP
• Sound Mixer

I am a documentary filmmaker, NYC born, with family ties to Ukraine. I work as a freelance shooter and editor for different clients. In 2004 I made an award winning feature length documentary on the Orange Revolution in Ukraine called "The Orange Chronicles". You can see it in the URL below. More recently I created and produce a web series on the New York City rock and roll scene called NYC ROCKS TV. It's a behind the scenes look at the characters and personalities active in the contemporary scene. We are currently in our second season, which you can see at www.NYCROCKS.TV Currently there is a major uprising in Ukraine. What started out as demonstrations in support of Ukraine's President signing a trade agreement with the EU looks like it will be a serious attempt to overthrow the current Ukrainian government. The opposition has called for a nationwide strike and resignation of the current regime. As during the Orange Revolution, demonstrators have set up a camp and fortified Independence Square as well as blocked government buildings. President Yanukovych has not blinked and does not look likely to negotiate. I am looking to go back now to film current events.

• Documentary DP

It is not unusual for my films to come out of my personal experience. A crucial component for me is to address what it is to be living at a certain moment in history. The Andre Show is the story of a young boy with AIDS my husband and I adopted shortly before he died during this global medical epidemic. 71 West Broadway: Ground Zero, NY is the street address of our loft located about 2 blocks north of the World Trade Center. I began filming that story from our doorstep during the terrorist attacks. The film follows the impact on us as well as the immigrant small business owners on our block as we all struggled to move back home after the evacuation of the Red Zone. Invisible Revolution captured a revealing interview with a young racist, Ben Smith, just 2 weeks prior to the deadly shooting rampage he went on in Indiana and Illinois before shooting himself. Among the stolen lives was the much beloved Ricky Birdsong, the former Northwest University basketball coach. This is the core of my voice as an artist in which my true collaboration is with the characters within my film.

• Documentary DP

I am a NYC based camera operator and producer with experience from all across the US and abroad. I've worked with the likes of ESPN, MSNBC, HGTV, MTV, and History. In addition, I've shot web based content for non-profits, such as the non-partisan group, Represent.us, which garnered national recognition and viral success. I'm experienced in a multitude of different cameras ranging from ENG to DSLR based systems; and I am well versed in verite-style shooting, as well as, location based lighting. I am an expert in the upkeep and operation of the following: Canon C300 and 5D/6D. Sony FS700/100, PMW 300, and EX-3. Panasonic HDX 900 and GoPro Hero cams. In short, what I can offer you is a tested professional, with a passion for visual storytelling, that can handle anything thrown my way. You'll rest easy having the confidence of knowing the job will get done up to and BEYOND your expectations. I'm hard working and passionate, two things that will absolutely be reflected in my work.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• Drone Operator
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

I am confident that my success in a wide spectrum of feature film and web video projects, in addition to my passion for reporting, makes me uniquely qualified to contribute for Storyhunter. Through years of experience working on feature films in Los Angeles as an editor, gaffer, and field recordist, I have developed the technical expertise necessary to enhance and distinguish my reportage. My experience ranges from editing a documentary about revolutionary journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, to conducting interviews with government officials, to producing an on-site documentary for a multinational corporation. Most recently, I produced, shot and edited a documentary about the oil boom in Williston, North Dakota. This project showcases my technique as both a reporter and visual storyteller, as I was responsible for developing government sources, winning the trust of oil workers at the labor camp I was staying in, and then designing a visual narrative that honored the integrity of this community while also shining a light on the challenges they faced.

• Documentary DP
• Sound Mixer

Hi, my name is Ines and I'm a New York-based multimedia journalist. I currently freelance as a correspondent for the Irish Times New York correspondent, and at ABC News Nightline. I cover all kinds of stories, often on a tight deadline. In the past year Ive reported from three countries for two networks and an international newspaper; and produced two documentaries one about illegal Irish immigrants arriving in America, the other about the conservative turn among young American Catholic priests, for which I travelled to Italy as part of a Scripps Howard endowed reporting team. I've also covered the Syrian conflict for the past two years, and events like the US Presidential election and the 2012 Olympics Games in London. But if I had to sum up the kind of stories I hunt,the ones that are my favorite, it's character-driven narratives that point to bigger social-justice issues. I prefer "embed" style process pieces told through a strong person/people about things that matter to at least one person. For example, I'm currently working on a juvenile justice story and telling it through the journey of one 12-year-old in Indiana, charged with murder. Looking forward to hunting!

• Documentary DP

My name is Mathias Magnason and I am currently freelancing as an editor and documentary filmmaker in the New York area. Between 2010 and 2012 I worked as a director and consultant for the Chinese independant TV station NTDTV in New York creating award winning documentaries and TV series such as Journey To The East and Free China. Human Rights, and especially abuse of human rights in China has been a big part of my journalistic work for the last ten years. I have also done documentary film work in Africa through UN and SIDA, and SVT in sweden. My two most recent works was editing a one hour documentary for Swedish Television about a native swedish musician working to bring the ancient Sami folk song to life again, and a shorter segment for NHK Science and Nature in Japan. I would like to hunt for stories about ordinary people entering extraordinary circumstances, discovering new aspects of life and themselves in the process. Universal questions and issues channelled through what is deeply personal and specific, is what interest me the most.

• Documentary DP

Gabriela Dematteis is an Emmy® Award Winning Producer and Director passionate about assembling, supporting, and leading creative teams in producing powerful visual content. With almost a decade of experience in the industry, she has worked for VICE Media, Refinery29, Tribeca Film Festival, Sundance Institute, Warner Bros. Television, CBS Television, Paramount Pictures, and Participant Media. Her work published on the VICE Media YouTube Channel, which has 17+ million subscribers, has notably been seen by millions of viewers worldwide. Some of her other projects have won an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish, been published on The New Yorker Magazine's digital site, and premiered at Toronto International Film Festival. Gabriela's favorite part of filmmaking is the opportunity it gives her to bring people together to share people's stories. She is excited to help produce stories that she believes will engage, inform, surprise, and impact its viewers.

• Field Producer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Post-Production Manager
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Senior Producer / Project Manager

Serge Kharytonau is a video journalist and documentary filmmaker based in New York City (Midtown Manhattan), United States of America. He is an independent journalist and media consultant with almost a decade of experience in media. Since 2011, Mr. Kharytonau has contributed to a wide range of European and Belarusian media. In 2018-2020 Mr. Kharytonau has been employed as foreign correspondent at the Current Time TV (a global television project of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty and the Voice of America) in the Republic of Belarus. In this position, he became known nationwide for his human stories, live broadcasts of mass protests, high-profile political interviews, and the coverage of 2019 parliamentary elections when he was able to record the proofs of ballot stuffing. In 2020, Serge was nominated for ‘Journalist of the year’ award of the Assembly of NGOs of Belarus. Serge Kharytonau is a World Journalist Fellow at the NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Executive Producer

I have 10+ years professional experience in post production, having done Assistant Editing and Short-Form Editing. Proficient with Avid, Premiere Pro, Adobe Suite, and Blender. Also know some FCP and DaVinci, and computer coding. Directed, edited, and co-produced the comedy movie "Who is Mike Bocchetti?", which was a cult hit when it premiered on Amazon in 2018. Credits include Food Network Digital, Delicious Miss Brown, ICC Soccer, VMware corporate content, iHeartMedia, American Pickers on History, Beat Bobby Flay on Food Network, The Flay List, Flipping Exes on Bravo, All In: The Road To The Classic, In the Mix with MattFx for Genius Kitchen, Mothman, Filthy Rich Guide, The Deed for CNBC, Stalked on Discovery, MTV's World of Jenks, and MTV's MADE (which won a Daytime Emmy). Filmed and edited "Rick Shapiro - Metamorphosis", available on Youtube. Wrote, illustrated, and published the "Invest Like A Pro, Kid" series.

• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Non-Fiction Film Director

I am an editor/producer with 15+ years of experience in the industry. I've created branded/docu episodes, social videos, promos and trailers for PBS, Salesforce, Vox, TED, among others. Many of these videos were distributed through YouTube, broadcast or a client's own website platform. I know Adobe Premiere inside and out, work through multicam edits with ease, and as a writer/producer I love scripting and collaborating with others to craft stories. With my producing background, I'm very organized, team-oriented, and work well under pressure in order to create great content ahead of schedule. Before I was an editor, I was a field producer and post-producer for networks such as Vice, History Channel, DIY Network, Animal Planet, A&E and others. I have directed teams in the field both in the US and internationally, and I've worked side-by-side with post-production crews in the edit. I have a wealth of experience across a broad spectrum of roles, which allows me to easily work with teams.

• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - News
• Senior Editor
• Audio Storyteller
• Digital Content Creator
• Post-Production Manager

Meredith Lawrence is an Assistant Editor for documentaries and unscripted TV. Most recently, she's been working with Paramount as the Lead Assistant Editor on the past six seasons of "Wild N' Out," as well as "MTV Unplugged" and the VMAs. Her heart is in documentary filmmaking, and she was the Assistant Editor for feature documentaries "So Sick" and "Rocky Flats." She also previously worked as a shooter/editor for Business Insider Today, the top daily news show on Facebook Watch, and interned with NBC Left Field and WGBH. She received a MA in News and Documentary Journalism from New York University and a BS in Film and Television from Boston University. As her Master's thesis, she produced, shot, and edited a 30-minute documentary exploring Armenian culture and history through family recipes. The topics that she is most passionate about include education, culture, food, the environment, and music.

• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - News
• Social Media Producer
• Field Producer
• Documentary DP
• Digital Content Creator

I’m an award-winning video creator and content strategist with a decade of experience in digital media production. I got my start in video during my college years in Paris, France, at a local production house where producing commercials for the Google Cultural Institute. I combined my international background with my passion for video when I joined the multimedia team at Human Rights Watch (HRW). There, I worked with human rights experts worldwide to create video content that breaks down complex issues into engaging narratives for a broad audience. I led the charge to reinvigorate HRW’s YouTube presence, leading to an 80% surge in subscribers, and I launched HRW’s TikTok page, defining the organization’s niche and developing new video styles tailored for the platform. Seeking fresh challenges has led me to produce real estate and lifestyle content for some of New York’s top real estate brokers, sharpening my storytelling toolkit in fresh ways.

• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Field Producer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Social Media Producer
• Digital Content Creator
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer

Ted Canova is an Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of podcasting for over 15 years. With a rich background spanning all media platforms, Ted began his journey as a college reporter at Emerson College. He seamlessly navigated between on-air and behind-the-scenes roles in journalism, serving as a news producer at WCVB-TV, a sports producer at WBZ-TV, and a news reporter in New Hampshire and Maine. His coverage extended to pivotal events such as the NH Presidential Primary, the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant, and the Challenger explosion. Ted's career trajectory led him to news management, where he helmed television news departments in Providence and Minneapolis for nearly 15 years. Returning to Boston, he assumed the role of News Director for WGBH-TV and Radio. Drawing from decades of experience in storytelling, production, and content strategy, Ted founded his multi-platform production company, Canova Communications.

• Podcast Producer
• Corporate Videographer
• Audio Storyteller
• Content Strategist
• Digital Content Creator