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Visual journalist (photo and video) currently based in Washington, DC specializing in documentary and editorial visuals whose work has been published on CNN, NBC News, AJ+ (Al-Jazeera), Fusion, NPR, and other news outlets in addition to working corporate clients such as the United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), The Human Rights Campaign, Starbucks, People Magazine, etc. Armando finished his tenure as a communications fellow in 2014 at the United Nations University for Peace where he also worked as their official photographer/videographer documenting the different dignitaries and events occurring at the University. He also received a Master's in Media, Peace and Conflict studies from the aforementioned institution and holds a Bachelor's in Political Science. Armando's work has been exhibited in California and Washington, DC where he received 'Best in show' during the 'Exposed DC' exhibit at the Longview Gallery. He's also a proud alumni of the Eddie Adams Workshop XXIX. For more on his work visit: www.okaybokeh.com

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CUTTER HODIERNE is a documentary cinematographer. He has also worked as an award-winning feature film director. His debut feature film FISHING WITHOUT NETS, a story of pirates in Somalia told from the perspective of the pirates, won 'Best Director' at the Sundance Film Festival and was called "Sundance's most beautiful film" by The Wrap. His short film of the same title garnered international acclaim, including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance. The short was expanded into the first scripted feature film financed by VICE Studios and distributed by FOX. Cutter was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film and was a fellow at the Sundance Screenwriter's Lab. Cutter's work in interactive mediums includes VR experiences like STRENGTH IN NUMBERS - NBA FINALS VR for OCULUS, A virtual museum exhibit: BERLIN WALL VR and art-installation films like OMNIA PER OMNIA. Cutter has also directed commercials for major brands like Intel, Microsoft, AEG, LiveNation, (RED), and others. Cutter began his career directing music videos in Washington, DC before traveling the world with U2 directing tour documentaries for the historic U2-360 Tour.

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Journalist, news and non-news producer with more than 20 years experience in all aspects of media production. Fahimeh started her journalism path in Iran and she worked in numerous newspapers. She always kept her eyes on areas such as social, women, laborers and the young generation’s issues. In 2010 she started her career at Radio Free Europe, Radio Farda, where she still works from Washington DC. Fahimeh is the producer of Radio Farda’s weekly social magazine and also she has played a significant role in starting Frda TV as the lead TV presenter and host of the morning show. She joined VOA Persian in 2016 and worked as one of the best TV presenters and news anchors. After 2016, she continued her career with Radio Fada and started a significantly successful and well known debate series named “Taboo”, in which she discussed some of the most controversial political, religious, gender and cultural taboos in Iran. She is currently working on a new docuseries for Radio Farda, focusing on censorship in Iran. She is also well known for her extremely popular podcast series named “Ghazayeye Irani” which digs deeper in Iranian culture and society through food and its rituals. She also won the silver medal of 2022 in New York festival for radio and TV production for her radio documentary: “My censored life”.

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I am an American-Iranian citizen and a freelancer who lives in Washington D.C. Two times winner of NY Film Festival 2022 & 2023 as a Cinematographer/Videographer in making documentaries for VOA. 20 years of experience in production and live broadcast and has worked with many News Networks like VOA, BBC, Al-Jazeera, Volant Media/Iran International TV, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Fox News, OWN, The Hill and many more. Skills: Director of Photography, Cinematography, Videography, Video Editing, Live News and Event Director, Technical Director, Switcher, Line Producer, Producer, Gaffer, Grips, Audio Technician, LED Wall Operator. I have traveled the broad to cover many events such as World Cup 2014 in Brazil, Mobile World Congress in Spain-Barcelona, P5+1 Iran Nuke program in Austria-Vienna, War in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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For the past 15 years I've worked as a producer and creative strategist in the fields of social enterprise, science, technology, and international development. I've produced countless short-form miscellaneous and promotional videos for a variety of individuals and organizations and have had films screened in festivals around the world. To date, I've held screenings at the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, the Puerto Rico International Film Festival, and the Culture Unplugged Online Film festival. In my spare time, I'm a social media consultant specializing in campaign strategy and analytics as well as an adventure photographer/filmmaker specializing in rock-climbing, ice-climbing, and motorcycle sport.

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12 years of experience in TV journalism and digital media Video-editing content for TV as well as social media platforms, creating tailor-made and one-minute stories for social media platforms including Instagram and Youtube Producing daily news shows, special coverage during breaking news situations, line producing in the control room Filming interviews, narrating news stories and doing voice-overs Able to work under duress and time constraints

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PRODUCER & DIRECTOR with 10 years of experience in the film industry. Hard working professional with an in-depth understanding of film production process, storytelling and the postproduction pipeline. I speak English, French and Spanish.

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Timothy Wolfer is a journalist and filmmaker. For over a decade he has been working on stories of humanitarian aid and migration. His work has taken him to 40+ countries; places like South Sudan to tell stories of the conflict, Bangladesh to cover stories of the Rohingya fleeing Myanmar, Cuba as the country first opened to U.S. humanitarian assistance, and Haiti days after the 2010 earthquake. His latest film The Right Girls follows a group of transgender women headed to the U.S. Border with the 2018 Large Migrant Caravan. This film was distributed on Amazon, iTunes and Google Play. He has also produced numerous, short docs for PBS stations, winning him a regional Emmy. Wolfer was also present on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th filming as a mob breached the building and the footage, he shot there was featured by the New York Times. His gear includes, FX9, FS7 A7R3, as well as audio and full lighting kit.

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Farhan Alam, has been in the film and television industry for over 16 years. He has worked as a cinematographer, director, and editor on many award-winning programs. Recently his feature film, Sawaan, was Pakistan’s official entry to the 90th Academy Awards in the foreign film category. Sawaan has also won numerous awards in film festivals around the world, including best director and best film and can be currently seen on Netflix. Farhan’s passion includes bringing social issues to the mainstream public, be it editing a documentary on the side effects of dry cleaning or just contributing ideas to fellow film makers. Farhan has also worked for four years as a cameraman, editor, and producer at Voice of America. Some of the productions that he has worked on are Kahani Pakistani and View360, for Kahani Pakistani, he has shot, produced, and edited numerous episodes. Before joining Voice of America, Farhan worked on an episodic documentary covering Pakistani film celebrity Reema’s new life in the United States. During this documentary shoot he also covered the historic 2012 elections and traveled to multiple cities around the country.

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Kate Medley is a documentarian, doing storytelling and digital for good causes, companies, and campaigns. In her ten years with Whole Foods Market, Medley traveled the world documenting the stories of farmers and producers growing our food. As an instructor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Medley teaches a class on visual approaches to documenting place. In her capacity as a filmmaker with the Southern Foodways Alliance, Medley has created several documentary film projects that explore Southern culture through stories about food. Medley received her bachelor’s degree in photojournalism from the University of Montana and her master’s in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi. She has worked as a photojournalist for newspapers across the South, including the Charlotte Observer, the Chattanooga Times Free Press, and as a lead contributor for The New York Times.

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August 2014 – November 2020 Freelancing for national and international video-productions in the DMV- &Tri-State-Area, NIH, Oracle-University. Life-stream, LiveU, multi- and remote-camera productions. 2020 Oxford, MS Film Festival, camera for 3 short documentaries in the official program Beyond the Brink” Documentary 2018 Camera Department February 2012 – August 2014 Employed and partnered with Yellow Cat Productions Inc. in Washington, DC until August 31. 2014. Documentary projects for the Smithsonian Museum, WDR-West German Television, “American Homeplace” a long term documentary project. In addition, working for international and national TV Broadcasters and Film/Video Productions in the DC/NY-East cost area. Summer Camp instructor for “Beginning Filmmakers” at The Little Theater of Alexandria. Member of TIVA. February 2010 – January 2012 Freelancing for ARD-German Television, France Television, Swiss Television and other international and national TV Broadcasters and Film/Video Productions in the DC/NY-East cost area. Evacuated after the earthquake of January 12th 2010, with spouse and 5year old son, by USAID (Employer of my wife Katherine) from Haiti to Washington, DC. Co-production for UNESCO in Haiti. Member of WIFV and TIVA 2010-2016 November 2008 – January 2010 Move to Port-au-Prince/Haiti Productions for the Restavek Foundation and German Film/TV May 2007 – October 2008 Move to Pretoria/South Africa and Paternity leave National and international co-productions in South Africa for Al Jazeera, France24, N24-German Television and independent Corporate productions. February 2003 – April 2007 Senior Cameraperson and Trainer for national and international, civilian and military staff of the UN-peacekeeping mission, MONUC in the D.R.Congo. Corporate for VODACOM, CELLTEL 2001/2002 Trainer and Supervisor for Filmmaking with multimedia postgraduate- classes at the FAWAcademy/Fortbildungs Akademie der Wirtschaft/Advanced trainings academy of business, Cologne Germany October 1997- January 2003 Independent national and international documentary productions for ARTE/Franco German TV -Network, DW/German International Broadcasting Organization, HR/Hessian Broadcasting (public broadcaster for the German state of Hesse), NDR/Northern German public Broadcaster, UNTV, ZDF (Second German public Television) and other broadcasters, independent national and international Film- and TV- Productions. January 1994 – October 1997 Freelance Camera-Person for national and international public Broadcasters, Film- and TV-Productions June 1988 - December 1993 Freelance-Assistant for Film and Video, Broadcast Audio, Cameraman for Deutsche Welle/DW, West German Television/WDR, ZDF and independent national and international Film- and TV- Productions. Nov. 1985 – May 1988 Assistant at Film-Studio-Kurt-Pit Mueller KPM, Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 1986-2002 Member of the Cologne-Film-House. 1990 Film workshop with academy award nominated cinematographer Slawomir Idziak. 1992 Film workshops at the European Summer-Academy at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin “Masters of light” with Academy Award-winning and nominated cinematographers Henri Alekan, Haskell Wexler, Billy Williams and director Wim Wenders. 1993 Production Assistant for award winning director Peter Greenaway’s “The Baby of Macon” 1997 Seminary for Documentary Film with German award winning Axel Engstfeld FILMOGRAPHIE (SELECTION) 2006 Celltel Launch with Jazz-Legend Manu Dibango, in Kinshasa, D.R.Congo. DOP and First Camera 2005 “Un Amour Pendant La Guerre” (A Love During War) 63min Docu- Drama, Cameroun/D.R.Congo by award winning director Osvalde Lewat- Hallade. Camera and supervision of the sound recording. “The Peacekeepers” 83min Documentary, Camera Department - TV-Spot, HIV/SIDA for ONUSIDA and PAM. DoP and Co- production. 2004 Vodacom TV-Spot for D.R.Congo. Camera 2003 “Le corps des femmes: Front cache de la Guerre en RDC” (Women’s Bodies: The Hidden Front Of The War In DRC ) MONUC-Production, shown on TV5. Camera 2002 “MONUC”, “Radio Okapi”, “Garamba National Park”, “ Okapi Breading Station and Epulo-National Park” all D.R.Congo. Camera, Coproduction for UNTV/Turner Foundation - UNDP and Turner- Foundation projects in Nigeria. Camera 2001 “The eradication of the Guinea Worm in Northern Nigeria” for UNTV/Carter Foundation. Camera, Co-production. - “The Afghan crisis”, the difficult situation of refugees in Herat/Afghanistan” for UNTV/WHO. Camera and Co-production. - “A German soccer trainer in Teheran” for HR. Camera and Coproduction - “Emergency manager in Herat” for DW. Camera Co-production. - Portraits about the Mexico-City film and music scene for ARTE. Camera and Co-production. 1998 “The difficult situation of Tajik women” a “UN in Action”- film at the Chicago TV-festival 1992 “Costalero” best Newcomer short-documentary-film at Hannover Film festival, Germany 1990 - 1994 HFF/Film TV-Academy, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany Cinematography Guest Student and Tutor for Cinematography and Animation 1983 - 1985 University of Cologne, Germany English studies, Psychology, Zoology, Studium Generale

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I began making films while in college and have since grown a freelancing venture into a company that produces and directs video projects for universities, Fortune 500 companies, and numerous national and regional organizations. I bring a dynamic catalog of experiences into projects as I’ve performed almost all of the roles involved in a commercial grade video production. I love bringing together a production team and approach that fits the story. Though there are crew that I work with often, I’m comfortable working with almost any team and I’d be the first to say that we need to look at the concept and ask, "what is really going to allow us to make this the right way?" When not working on a production, I’m usually playing with my two boys or exploring beauty in the great outdoors of North Carolina.

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I work primarily as a Documentary Storyteller. I am committed to social equality and fair representation of marginalized populations. I believe a documentary project directly reflects the relationship between the filmmaker and those being filmed, thus, my work explicitly represents the trust, commitment and reverence I have established with those who share their story with me. I make my films with the intention of connecting people, alleviating ethnocentrism, and providing visual and narrative evidence to help people learn about the world in which we live, consequently sparking a reaction, probing questions and exploring the idea of social change. By harnessing the power of narrative visuals and technology, I am able to contribute to an art that provides an accessible and entertaining avenue for people to learn, grow, connect, and act.

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We are an award-winning, full-service video production company based in Washington, DC with more than 30 years of professional production experience. Leveraging our state-of-the-art studio facility in Northern Virginia, we produce everything from creative TV commercials to corporate marketing videos, training videos, documentaries, virtual studio productions and more. We have an in-house pool of videographers, animators, technicians, and storytellers ready to provide complete video production services and onsite AV support for your next corporate production or event. As a GSA-registered company in Washington, DC, we are proud to serve clients in every sector, including federal government, private businesses, associations, universities, nonprofits, and some of the world’s leading multi-national brands.

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Hello! My name's Mitchel Worley and I am a man of many film hats. I like to consider myself a utility player on a film set. I am a producer, director, cinematographer, and editor. For the past six years, I have worked avidly to turn what was a hobby in high school into a full services film production company: mwfilms. In it's short lifespan, mwfilms has produced television and web content for political campaigns throughout the United States. We’ve been behind the lens for short films & documentaries that have gone on to win awards and be featured in film festivals across the country. And finally, we’ve created stellar music videos for Florida and Virginia’s flourishing “DIY” music scene. mwfilms is always taking on new clients and new projects! Contact us and allow us to be the creative engine behind your next ad campaign, music video, short film, or documentary!

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I'm a highly-experienced video and film producer with a track record of producing projects that attract an audience and get results. My series "Cash Cab" is one of the most successful TV series of the last 15 years, and I won three Emmys for my work as Executive Producer, Director and Show runner. Since leaving "Cash Cab," I've created and produced two TV series for Nat Geo Wild and MSNBC. I've also produced dozens videos and spots for corporations, non-profits and organizations, and have created viral content for clients big and small. I work closely with clients to create concepts, write scripts, storyboard, design productions, direct in the field, and deliver highly-effective videos and films.

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I am resident of Carrboro, NC but originally from the Seattle, WA area. I speak English fluently and some broken Mandarin. I've been working in the fields of documentary film and photography for 9 years. I have been on assignment in 30 different countries, including 12 different countries in Africa, 5 different countries in Europe and many more in Latin America and Asia. I've shot for companies such as FOX, CBS, Gatorade and ESPN, among many others. In addition to extensive documentary film cinematography I am a very competent documentary and portrait photographer. I also have experience as an editor and colorist in Final Cut Pro X. I have been a freelance filmmaker and photographer for 9 years now and am looking to continue to grow my clientele.

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Erin Hull is a freelance videographer and photographer working in North Carolina. Erin worked as a staff photographer and videographer at The Coloradoan for two years after interning at The Denver Post. She currently is a videographer for Duke Health. Erin attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received a Bachelor's degree in Journalism with a specialization in photojournalism. Erin's work has been featured in international publications and media and has been recognized by The Associated Collegiate Press, College Photographer of the Year and South by Southwest. Clients include: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Denver Post, The Houston Chronicle and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Kiyoka Rhodes (a.k.a. Kex) is an Emmy-nominated writer, producer and director of films and branded content for multiscreen platforms. She graduated from American University with a B.A. in Film and Media Arts and a minor in Graphic Design. Since then, she has directed and produced various commercials, films and other content for television with companies like NBC4 Washington, Comcast, The CW Network (DCW50), the American Bar Association (ABA) and with BBC Studios. Kiyoka is the Founder/Creative Director of KEX STUDIOS — a full-service production company specializing in film and video, branded content, and design. She is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and will continue using the art of film to tell stories with purpose and impact. #keepitmoving

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Amitabh Joshi is an award winning director and cinematographer. Amitabh has directed and developed a visual style for a wide array of films, branded content, and series. His instinct for story and cinematic style have placed Amitabh in high demand for productions both in Nepal and The USA. He has an extensive knowledge and cultural background to work in South Asia. Amitabh was awarded the Princess Grace JustFilms grant in 2012, The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation grant in 2013, and Center for Asian American Media Documentary Fund in 2014. Amitabh has worked as a cinematographer for Art21, Positive Exposure, and numerous documentaries.

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