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Contessa G.

San Francisco, CA, USA

5 reviews

$650 - $1000 / Day

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About

Contessa Gayles is an independent documentary filmmaker, an award-winning journalist and an Emmy-nominated producer. She tells stories about identity, movement and social change, with a focus on race, ethnicity and gender. From 2014 - 2018, she was a producer at CNN, where she created, produced, directed, shot and edited award-winning original series and documentaries, including 'The Feminist on Cellblock Y' (2018 Vera Institute Award Winner, 2018 Eppy Award Finalist), 'Women Who March' (2018 Webby Award Honoree, 2017 Eppy Award Finalist), 'Women Who March: The Movement' (2018 Eppy Award Winner), 'This Is Birth with Lisa Ling' & 'This Is Sex with Lisa Ling' (2017 & 2018 Namic Vision Award Nominees), 'Unstereotyped' and the 2016 News & Documentary Emmy-nominated 'Feeding America's Most Vulnerable Children.' She has additionally contributed to VICE, PBS NewsHour, PBS Frontline, AFROPUNK and forthcoming independent documentary features, including 'Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project' (dir. Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster), 'Surge' (dir. Hannah Rosenzweig, Wendy Sachs) and 'Black Mothers' (dir. Débora Souza Silva). Contessa holds a B.A. from Columbia University and an M.A. in Journalism from New York University, with a concentration in Documentary Film. Her thesis documentary, 'School of Yoga,' screened at the 2015 DOC NYC film festival.

Top Services

Video Editor - Documentary
5 reviews
Documentary DP
Video Editor - News

Clients

Top Reviews

  • September • 2019

    Contessa is AMAZING. She is everything you want in an editor: organized, fast, responsive to feedback and creative. She didn't just do the job, she elevated the story. There were a lot of major edits that we needed to make before our publishing deadline and she quickly implemented them. I would highly recommend Contessa as an editor.

    Tupac at AJPlus
  • September • 2019

    Contessa was great. She was fast and easy to work with.

    Tupac at AJPlus

Top Projects

  • 5.0

    Produced for AJPlus

    Plastic Surgery Final

    • Video Editor - Documentary
  • 5.0

    Produced for AJPlus

    Plastic Surgery in South Korea Pt. 2

    • Video Editor - Documentary
  • 5.0

    Produced for AJPlus

    Plastic Surgery in Korea Pt.4

    • Video Editor - Documentary
  • 5.0

    Produced for AJPlus

    Plastic Surgery in Korea Pt.3

    • Video Editor - Documentary
  • 5.0

    Produced for AJPlus

    Plastic Surgery in South Korea

    • Video Editor - Documentary

Equipment

Camera

  • 4K Camera

Audio

  • Directional Microphone
  • Lavalier Microphone

All Services

Production Support

  • Documentary DP
  • On-Air Reporter / Host
  • Reporter / Journalist
  • News Shooter / Video Journalist
  • Field Producer
  • TV News Producer
  • Non-Fiction Film Director

Post Production

  • Video Editor - News
  • Video Editor - Documentary
  • Video Editor - Commercial

Miscellaneous

  • Fixer
  • Series Producer / Show Runner
  • Senior Producer / Project Manager