Waqas M.
Boston, MA, USA
$10 - $10
3 reviews- Reporter / Journalist
Boston, MA, USA
$10 - $10
3 reviewsNew York, NY, USA
$200 - $20000
2 reviewsNew York, NY, USA
$300 - $1000
I'm an Emmy award-winning New York City and Los Angeles based editor of documentary films, commercial videos, investigative new videos, reality & documentary TV series, behind-the-scenes documentaries, social media videos and more with over 10 years experience. I additionally work as a multimedia producer, story producer, and story consultant for a wide range of companies. My most recent work includes freelancing as a Senior Video Editor for The New York Times, where I have edited several documentary and news video series including "Quarantine Diaries," "Diary of a Song" (featuring Billie Eilish, Lizzo, and Kacey Musgraves), and "Stressed Election," which was nominated for a 2021 News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Editing: News. I also currently freelance for a wide range of media platforms including Netflix, HBO, AMC, and Nickelodeon. My work as a commercial video editor has appeared everywhere from national ad campaigns to a billboard in Times Square for clients including Netflix, HBO, National Geographic, Adobe, Paypal, TED Talks, Paypal, Google, YouTube Originals, Sephora, Lyft, Salesforce, Clif Bar, Men's Health, The Cooking Channel, The LGBTQ Center of New York, Link NYC, Lyft, Outside Lands Music Festival, UC Berkeley, TED Talks, Google, and Planned Parenthood. The social media videos I edit for news and social media issues platform ATTN: have received tens of millions of views. I also edit for several other widely followed social media platforms such as NowThis News, BuzzFeed, Vice, Refinery 29, Big Think, Upworthy, Mic, Brut, Tastemade, and Zoe Saldana's social media production company, BESE. For Apple Music's social media platforms, I produced and edited "Broken Record," a documentary series on songs that have made a social and political impact featuring Patti Smith, Bono, Keith Richards, Sheryl Crow, and other artists. As a multimedia story producer, I have worked on numerous projects including "War Ink," an interactive website on Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their tattoos, "This is Watts," featuring the stories of people who lived in Los Angeles during the Watts Riots, and "Stonewall Forever," a documentary and living monument in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. I have also worked as a story producer and editor for Riot Games, where I researched and scripted videos for their platforms. In 2020, I won an Emmy for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series as the editor for AMC’s “Legal Ethics With Kim Wexler," a companion web series for AMC's "Better Call Saul." As a TV editor I have worked on shows for Nickelodeon, HBO, and PBS. I recently edited behind-the-scenes documentaries for Disney, Netflix, and AMC as well as video retrospectives for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. I got my start as a documentary film editor working alongside renowned documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles of the Maysles Brothers ("Grey Gardens," "Gimme Shelter," "The Gates") and have since worked as an editor on several short and feature-length films. I am the editor of "Soledad," a feature-length documentary following three inmates after their release from one of California's most violent and overcrowded prisons, and recently co-edited "Voices Beyond The Wall," following a group of orphaned teenage girls living in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, murder capital of the world, as they learn to write poetry about their lives. I was the editor on Roku TV's Lesbian Bar Project, a docuseries following three lesbian bars across the country hosted by Lea Delaria. My work for the New York Times was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy. My work on the docuseries Lesbian Bar Project was nominated for a GLAAD award. My work editing promos for the TV show Better Call Saul won an Emmy Award. In addition to making films, I record and conducts oral history interviews across the country for StoryCorps, a National Public Radio and Peabody Award-winning project dedicated to preserving the stories of everyday Americans at the Library of Congress. My work as a radio editor has been broadcast on NPR, WNYC, KPCC, KQED, KALW, and PRI's The World. You can view my portfolio and recent samples of my work at: https://www.kevinoliveredits.com/
New York, NY, USA
$650 - $2000
KAREN B. SONG is a video Director, Producer, Cameraperson/DP, Editor & Writer, who has worked with the advertising industry’s top agencies and a diverse roster of clients, to create commercials, branded content, radio ads, live events media, promos, video signage, client pitch proposals & industrials. Among the many premiere brands she’s worked with, she’s directed & produced campaigns for American Express and the US Open, shot a documentary style branded-content web series across 5 continents for Mini Cooper/BMW & VICE Media, and produced Black History Month TV promos for the Disney Channel. She’s the Creator, Director, Producer & Editor of several documentaries with international subjects (Russia & Korea, and is currently in production with "Sundays at Cafe Tabac," a documentary feature film about women's empowerment and visibility, and in development for a documentary about women surfers. She also currently has narrative feature films and a TV series project under various stages of production & development, and continues to concept and shoot music videos for various Grammy-nominated artists. She began her 20-year career in the entertainment industry producing and commissioning music albums on major labels, TV programs, and music videos, working with some of the biggest artists of all time. With a stint in live events that spanned production, development and marketing roles, she also has provided various media and production services for countless non-profit organizations and their live events. She has worked with Tony Award-winning director Jack Hofsiss who mentored her in the theater, and a collection of her stage plays titled "Love and Other Natural Disasters," was staged and produced Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Repertory Theater. She is a graduate of Brown University and is an avid surfer.
New York, NY, USA
$650 - $850
Mary Catherine began her production career by traveling to Hungary to document the plight of the Roma, and produced, filmed and edited "Through Roma Eyes," for Storyful. She went on to work on documentary programs for CNN, PBS, CBS, HBO, Lifetime, and IFC, and many others. She produced a live-animation economics series, "Punk Economics with David McWilliams," and an immersive travel series "Kenny Wild" for Sky 191. Mary Catherine and Cornelia released their first independent film "A Mighty Man: The Father Gerry Roche Story" about an Irish missionary who was murdered in Kenya, in 2012. Most recently, Mary Catherine was an Editor on "The C-Word," a film Directed by Meghan O'Hara (Fahrenheit 9/11) and Executive Produced by Morgan Freeman. Mary Catherine graduated cum laude from Harvard University, and earned her MS at Columbia School of Journalism. She is currently a Video Producer for HuffPost.
New York, NY, USA
$500 - $1500
A lifelong storyteller, relentlessly curious and driven by a passion to break the mold, innovate and challenge the status quo. An uncanny ability to find a compelling story angle in any assignment or opportunity, big or small from covering the Hollywood red carpet interviewing the world’s biggest stars, to scouring the world’s biggest tradeshows as a reporter finding stories of innovation in the everyday and ordinary, to creating, writing and producing new shows and storytelling approaches, to exec producing original commissions and developing and producing content in the brand space. As a reporter, host and MC, Christian’s easy manner and empathetic nature allow him to build trust quickly with interviewees, from A level talent to CEOs and industry leaders, to those less comfortable in front of a crowd or camera. He has a rare ability to put people at ease and open them up, engaging in thoughtful conversation, drawing out insights through well researched questions.
Hoboken, NJ, USA
$400 - $1000
Director, Writer & Videographer with experience in Commercials, Fiction, Internet, TV & Documentary. I've lived and worked in Seville, Madrid, London, New Delhi, Mexico City and New York City. I write film scripts, articles, and fiction narratives, and I direct films, documentaries, and commercials. Here a few other facts you may want to know about me: - My first Feature Film as Director Bad Vegan and The Teleportation Machine was premiered at the Brooklyn Film Festival 2016 and will be part of the Woodstock Film Festival. - I co-wrote two feature films with Mexican director Humberto Hinojosa: Paraiso Perdido, released in 2016 and Camino a Marte, to be released in 2017. - My short film Miss Mystery has screened at Coney Island Film Festival, Long Island Film Festival & NYLA Film Festival. - I've directed many commercials and fiction projects in Spain, UK, India, Mexico and the USA. Also, I have spent time as a columnist for Nylon Magazine Mexico.
Boston, MA, USA
$5000 - $10000
Jeremy S. Levine is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker dedicated to telling innovative, intimate, cinematic stories. As a freelance director, producer, editor, and cinematographer, he has created branded content for companies like 23andMe, Ben & Jerry's, and the Brooklyn Brewery. He has produced, shot, and edited segments for outlets like PBS NewsHour, Nat Geo, and Time Magazine. And he has worked as a freelance filmmaker for non-profits including the Dramatists Guild Fund, (RED), and the Covenant House. Levine's films explore race, trauma, and disillusionment and seek to unearth buried tragedies and work towards the often-elusive goal of reconciliation. An Emmy award-winning filmmaker and two-time Sundance Institute fellow, his work has screened at over one hundred film festivals around the world including the Berlinale, Tribeca, and Sundance, streamed on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Sundance Now, Starz, and Hulu, broadcast nationally in nine countries, and received 18 festival awards. His last feature documentary, For Ahkeem, is a love story set against the backdrop of the Ferguson uprising and the school-to-prison pipeline. For Ahkeem played as an official selection of over 60 film festivals where it won 10 awards, including 8 “Best Documentary Awards.” The film was named in Top 10 Lists by both Entertainment Weekly and People and was included on the “Unforgettables” List by the Cinema Eye Honors, a list that IndieWire wrote “helped to define documentary cinema in 2017.” He recently released The Panola Project, a short film that chronicles the journey of the unstoppable Dorothy Oliver to vaccinate her rural, Black town of Panola, AL from the convenience store she runs out of a mobile home. Nearly 99% of adults in her town have received the shot in a state with one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. The Panola Project was an official selection of over 35 festivals including Sundance, Hot Docs, and the DOC NYC Shortlist. The film received five Special Jury Prizes, three Audience Awards, and two Grand Jury Prizes, including the Oscar-qualifying Best Documentary Short Award at the Florida Film Festival. The film was released with The New Yorker, featured on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and The Last Word, and written about in over 50 publications including USA Today, The Boston Globe, Business Insider, and People. In 2006, Levine co-founded the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective (BFC), a community of professional filmmakers dedicated to collaboration and mutual support. He is currently developing projects about a former white supremacist turned vagabond clown, a personal documentary-horror film, and a hybrid film highlighting the deep bond between two men who met in prison.
New York, NY, USA
$350 - $550
Vienna Alexandria Maglio is a freelance, multimedia journalist and producer based in Jersey City, New Jersey who has worked on stories across the United States and internationally in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Her past work has focused on issues of social justice, human rights, gender, citizen journalism and the intersection of journalism and technology. She has worked on various programs within Al Jazeera English (AJE), including AJE's award winning new media program, The Stream and AJE's, 101 East, a weekly current affairs and documentary program focusing on Asia and the South Pacific. Most recently, Vienna collaborated with an all female crew of journalists, producers and photojournalists on Her America: 50 Women, 50 States, a groundbreaking digital road trip amplifying the voices of everyday women. She holds a Master's degree in International Relations from The New School for Public Engagement, where she concentrated on human rights and media. Previously, she has worked with the Brooklyn-based international human rights organization, WITNESS.
Jersey City, NJ, USA
$350 - $700
Accomplished producer and editor in television, online, and print media fields for 15+ years delivering original and collaborative content in live, breaking news environments. Specialize in editing with Adobe Creative Cloud and AVID for both daily shows and long form projects, earning 5 Emmy Awards and 9 nominations in total for excellence in production. Driven by a passion for creating and developing high quality unique content, I produce and edit daily and long form elements for a variety of television programs, including creating montages set to music, special profile features and interview pieces. Instrumental in supporting the launches of both the MLB Network and NHL Network, both have grown into nationally acclaimed organizations. Since then my fervor for this industry has advanced into leadership development where I currently lead a team of 5 producers and have promoted as many as 9 over the course of my career. I am always eager to connect and network within the industry to find exciting new ways to bring information and entertainment to the masses. Areas of Expertise: Adobe Premiere, AVID, Photoshop CC, After Effects, Microsoft Office, ENPS
Hoboken, NJ, USA
$350 - $750
Before starting CaveLight Films, Jordan wrote and produced numerous TV and documentary projects for Travel Channel, A&E Network, Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, as well as produced TV commercials abroad for brands that include Adidas, Samsung and Head & Shoulders. In 2008, he produced the feature length documentary, Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story narrated by Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins and directed by Emmy Award winner Scott Goldstein. Jordan has also produced multiple short documentaries for SgpMedia, which are on permanent exhibit in major museums including the Newseum in Washington, DC, The Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and the Tolerance Center in New York City. He also occasionally does freelance video work for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Jordan earned his Masters from the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
New York, NY, USA
$400 - $1200
I am an Italy-born freelance multimedia journalist based in Brooklyn, NY. I've covered various national stories for Fusion TV and the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, shooting and editing video news stories and short documentaries. I covered the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy in 2016, self-producing an award winning 16-minute documentary. I covered the construction of the southern leg of the same pipeline in the swamps of Louisiana, shooting and editing a short documentary for Fusion TV. I covered many Black Lives Matter protests around the country. I produced video stories following the acquittal of officers involved in Freddie Gray's death. I self-produced a short documentary about the aftermath of the shooting death of Alton Sterling at the hands of the Baton Rouge police. In 2017, I worked as a video producer on two feature-length documentaries, both dealing with the legacy of racial segregation and violence in the South. The projects are now in their post-production phase. In 2019, I worked as the U.S. producer for an Italian prime-time science show, managing the production of a 90-minute episode on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. I managed a 25-person crew around various U.S. cities and secured access to NASA facilities, booked interviews, scheduled traveling. I cover breaking news, crime and courts for the New York Daily News. I cover climate change-related litigation for Climate Liability News.
New York, NY, USA
$100 - $500
As an entertainment news journalist and on-air personality, my self-starter work ethic coupled with an unyielding commitment to journalistic integrity, breaking-news timeliness, camera-readiness, high-performing digital content, and positive audience engagement will be welcomed additions to any team as I positively promote the renown publication in each task I am granted. Boasting 10 years of digital reporting experience, with 5 years of management experience—including a high-level position— I am currently the Editor-in-Chief, On-Air Personality, and Social Media Administrator of entertainment news website Cheekywiki.com. With a unique and fun way of captivating audiences, coupled with a quick wit, I get to the heart of each story. As a digital content creator, I thrive in a fast-paced and detailed oriented environment. Singlehandedly growing Cheekywiki.com’s social media following to over 250K worldwide subscribers, I am proficient in social media management, devising SEO content promotion strategies, and producing interactive viral content. I am also an accomplished unscripted television producer and program creator, developing Hip-Hop talk/game show “Lyrically, I” and Hip-Hop sex/relationship podcast “Raw SECS!” With great passion and journalistic professionalism, I’ve worked as a live correspondent at the 2019 Black Girls Rock! Awards, the 2019 Millennium Tour, 2018 Soul Train Awards, 2018 BET Hip-Hop Awards, ComiCon, Jay-Z's Made In America Festival, and many others. In addition to my extensive background in entertainment news production, I’m proficient in news reporting, writing, and producing across all genres. I strive to maintain a diplomatic demeanor, even in the face of technical challenges or group debates. I am respected and well-liked by my peers and my opinion is often sought after because of my dedication to digital media excellence and willingness to listen fairly to others. I promise to work tirelessly to exceed your highest expectations and to purposefully fulfill your organizational goals.
New York, NY, USA
$600 - $1200
Rachael is an award winning journalist and producer, based out of New York City, whose career has spanned over 10 years, with stories broadcast on multiple national and international networks, live newscasts, long format factual programming and documentaries. As an Australian who holds a Canadian Citizenship as well as a U.S. Green card, she has been fortunate enough to travel the world to cover a variety of social, economic and political content, whilst living abroad in various geopolitical climates. Rachael was granted the Rory Peck Scholarship to complete her Hostile Environment and First Aid Training, enabling her to travel deeper into disaster zones, military and political events with internationally recognized certification. Rachael has been highly recognized across the industry for her work, awarded the 59th Annual Southern California's Journalist Award for Best International Feature and Best Social Media Coverage by an Individual as well as the Clio Entertainment Grand Winning Entry for her work on ‘The Greatest Showman Live' - the world's first live commercial for a theatrical release. Rachael also owns her own production company Post Road Pictures, a full service production company specializing in the creation and delivery of unique film, television, digital, broadcast, commercial and branded content worldwide.
North Kingstown, RI, USA
$500 - $1500
“Tim, you are the most determined and unflappable person I have ever met.” -Gov. Tom Ridge, former Secretary of Homeland Security, United States of America. Tim Gray is a national award-winning documentary film director, producer and writer based in Rhode Island. Tim has produced and directed 17 documentary films to date on the personal stories of the World War II generation. All of Tim’s films air nationally on American Public Television and also globally in such countries as China, Australia, France and England. Tim’s film travels have taken him to: Guadalcanal, Corregidor, Bataan, Manila, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, the Russell Islands, Banika, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, France (eleven times), Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg (twice), Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany (twice). Tim has won 5 Regional Emmy Awards for his films, 2 International Indie Film Fest Awards and a National Programming Excellence Award from American Public Television.
Hoboken, NJ, USA
$250 - $2500
I'm a film director and editor for social documentary and narrative projects worldwide. I freelance for several television production companies in Haiti, Colombia and Guatemala. I am the creative director of Gabriel Films, documentary production company in New York, where I reside. I work since 2010 in Haiti, where I trained a local team of audio-visual production. With his team, I have produced over 65 short documentaries for the work of NGOs in the country and now I'm carrying the first season of a television series called "A FOREST GROWTH IN HAITI". Some of my most recent work includes a cooking show in Guatemala called DESAFIO CULINARIO, broadcasted in Guatemala’s prime time. I was the editor for the Australian documentary FRACKMAN in 2014. I directed and edited the documentary CAST THE FIRST STONE, winner of the "Bahamas Film Festival Spirit Of Freedom & Documentary Audience Award for Best Documentary" in 2013.
New York, NY, USA
$350 - $800
Chris was born in New York City and raised outside of Annapolis, Maryland. His love of acting and filmmaking started at a very young age. From putting on performances for his family, to watching endless amounts of movies and TV. He always knew he wanted to be in the industry somehow, but when he was younger sports was his passion. He played baseball, football, and lacrosse and excelled in all of them. But shorty after graduating high school, he decided that his love of acting and film was the path he wanted to take. Chris moved back to New York City in 2004 and started auditioning at various acting schools. He ended up choosing the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts and became a Mesiner graduate in 2007. Shortly after graduation he teamed up with some buddies to make the web series "Recession Whores", which led the way to the starting of his production company "Rebel Lens Productions". After co-founding Rebel Lens, Chris joined more of his friends in the comedy group "The
Brooklyn, NY 11216, USA
$500 - $750
Crystal Kayiza grew-up in Oklahoma and is now a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker and 2018 Sundance Ignite Fellow. Her work focuses on pursuing more nuanced and diverse storytelling about Black communities. She is a recipient of the 2017 Jacob Burns Film Center Woman Filmmaker Fellowship. As a Woman Filmmaker Fellow she directed and produced, Edgecombe, a short documentary examining the ways trauma repeats and reinvents itself in a rural Black community in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. After graduating from Ithaca College in 2015 with a degree in Documentary Studies and Production, Crystal spent two years at the ACLU working on racial justice and criminal justice issues. Her documentary work and writing has been featured in The Nation, Scalawag Magazine and OkayAfrica. She received a Heartland Emmy Award in 2012 for her film All That Remains, which profiles Boley, Oklahoma, one of the nation's last all-Black towns.
Hoboken, NJ, USA
$1 - $1000
Alberto Ferreras is a writer and filmmaker known for his award winning novel “B as in Beauty”—published in the U.S. Spain, and Italy—, and for “Habla”, a 14-part documentary series created for HBO Latino in 2003. He is also one of the creators of “El Perro y el Gato”, a bilingual children’s animated show for HBO Family, and “Madres y Comadres” the first web-novela produced by Kmart for the Hispanic market of the U.S. He recently made his debut as a screenwriter with "Que Viva La Música" official selection to Sundance 2015. Ferreras has directed advertising campaigns for Dish Latino, HBO, MetroPlus, Verizon Wireless, and Walgreens among others. His Spanish version of the song “What it feels like for a Girl” was included in Madonna’s Drowned World Tour, and he recently collaborated with Los Crema Paraíso in their new album "De Película". He is a feature contributor for Vanity Fair Spain and a frequent guest speaker at the Smithsonian Latino Center. He was recently chosen Fan Guest
Boston, MA, USA
$550 - $1500
Award-winning television producer and host, Dan Egan is the owner of Degan Media, a New Hampshire-based media production and content creation company that has produced television, livestream and created programming for international, national and regional distribution. An accomplished author and action sports journalist, Mr. Egan has covered three Olympics and is a weekly contributor to Boston.com and produces for the US Sailing Team. His "Edging the Xtreme" radio show is featured on RadioBDC.com. First known as a world renown extreme skier, he is considered a pioneer of action sports. Egan has appeared in countless action sports films and his exploits have been featured on the Discovery Channel, ESPN, MTV, ABC, NBC. A sports consultant, he most recently produced a webinar and content for the NH "Life of an Athlete" substance abuse prevention campaign. Mr. Egan is an international motivational speaker and He is also runs and guides adventure trips from the Arctic to the Alps.
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