Discover Top Freelancers in Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Kevin McKinney is an Emmy award winning cinematographer, A festival award winning filmmaker and a proud father. He has been in the film industry for 20 years working on countless commercials, television series, web series, studio films, and independent films. His lighting has been featured in American Cinematographer magazine and his inventive rigging on "Shitty Rigs". McKinney began his work in documentary film while attending The University of Kansas, and continues to produce and shoot films, including the award-winning feature film, Corporate.FM, which follows the self destruction of the American radio industry.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Drone Operator
• Sound Mixer
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant
• Corporate Videographer
• Audio Storyteller
• Commercial DP

I am an Emmy nominated freelance video and film producer based in the Midwest. I frequently work with many local and national charitable and “Do-Good” organizations to produce promotional stories and content. I am very blessed to help create those pieces. I have also worked with Kansas City area ad agencies and filmmakers and frequently assist in live event production. I have also had the privilege of working and shooting in beautiful countries such as Uganda and Honduras. Basically, I am here to help you tell the story you want told. I am a husband, a father to four amazing boys, and a friend to anyone who needs one.

• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - News
• Senior Editor

With decades of experience and tens of thousands of projects under his fingers as co-owner of Mixing Room Studios, Chris Acker has established himself locally, regionally and nationally as one of the top audio engineers/producers in the business. Every project, whether a single voiceover tag or one with extensive sound design, is given the ears and experience it deserves. He takes pride in developing a trust with each and every client, ensuring that their project will be the absolute best it can be.

• Sound Mixer
• Sound Designer

I am currently a senior studying Strategic Communications at the University of Missouri. I am majoring in journalism and desire to one day work in an advertising agency for the creative department. As a student of the world's first journalism school, it has opened many opportunities and allowed me to develop my work over the years. I have been responsible for developing advertising campaigns, creating content across multiple media platforms while gaining professional experience.

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

As an award winning Director of Photography I bring a passion for creating story telling. Over 15 years experience working with companies and networks from small businesses to fortune 500 companies. As a cinematographer with a strong editing background this unique combination of abilities makes me the right person for your production.

• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Corporate Videographer
• Drone Operator
• Production Assistant
• Audio Storyteller

With 20 years in the field, I'm a full time freelance cinematographer, photographer and drone pilot. Having traveled to almost 30 countries, there aren't many places I won't go to capture amazing content. I am regularly based in Missouri and Los Angeles.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Drone Operator
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Company
• Creative Director
• Field Producer
• Corporate Videographer

Storyteller with experience producing tv and media from development through post production. Work background primarily in Reality TV, unscripted, and true crime. Social and easy to get along with, team player and great at collaboration. Midwesterner. Mom. Coffee lover.

• Field Producer
• Transcriber
• Copywriter
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Production Coordinator / Crewing

Wynn Ponder began his first freelance video marketing business in 1991, serving Wichita advertising agencies, manufacturing companies, banks, and health care clients. For 10 years after that, he was senior copywriter for Armstrong | Shank Advertising, writing for such clients as Farm Credit, Rent-A-Center, Master Machine, Kennedy & Coe, Friends University, Westland Corporation, Heartspring School, Riverside Health System, Willie C's restaurant, Timberline restaurant, and many more. Wynn served as marketing communications director for Pioneer Balloon Company for two years, then returned to freelance video marketing, where his clients included Protection 1, Kansas Department of Labor, Kansas Department of Commerce, Home Vesting, PK Technology, Bethany College, and many more. In 2007, he started a video marketing business that has served such clients as American AgCredit, University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, American Bonanza Society, Choose Networks, US Logo, Redbox, American Diabetes Association, Wichita Art Museum, and many smaller Wichita companies and organizations. Wynn also wrote and directed the short film, "Denial," in 2014 and the award winning 2018 rock documentary, "The Life, Blood and Rhythm of Randy Castillo."

• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Production Company
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Copywriter
• Sound Designer
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Post-Production Manager
• Animator / Visual Effects Artist
• Fixer

Over the past 20 years, I have a flawless track record producing, directing and editing content with world class creative agencies, television and film production companies and Fortune 500 companies which include Yahoo! News, People TV, NBC Universal, Travelocity, Real Time with Bill Maher,  Getty Film, Oracle, Organic, WAG Entertainment, MAK Pictures, 60 Minutes, Harvest Creative, Hint and Thrillist. In 2022, Jon directed and edited the feature documentary, Class of COVID- 19 which recently won the 2022 International Black Film Festival- Nashville Best Long Documentary, Kansas City Film Fest International Audience Choice Award for Documentary Feature and the Silver Remi Award at WorldFest- Houston International Film Festival. The documentary also screened at the Portland Film Festival and the Twin Cities Film Festival. In 2018, Jon directed, produced and edited the award-winning feature documentary film, Uncommon Allies. Uncommon Allies is currently on Amazon Prime, Apple, TV, Roku TV and VUDU. Over the past several years, Jon collaborated with Oscar and Emmy award winning filmmakers on many independent projects.  He was a producer and DP on the feature documentary film, Beyond Laughter and Tears, released in March of 2016 directed by Oscar award winner Doug Blush.  Jon's past experience includes working as a director, producer, DP and editor at Yahoo!.  Jon played a hands-on, key role in establishing Yahoo! as a forerunner in original online video productions.  This was Yahoo’s first step into original TV style series (webisodes) productions.  He directed, edited and produced 5 original webisode series while at Yahoo! focusing on topics such as travel, lifestyle, subcultures, music, news, and politics.  He's worked with TV hosts Bill Maher, Charlie Rose and Richard Bangs.  Jon's last project at Yahoo! was creating a video profile of the President of the United States in the White House Roosevelt Room.  It was the first time in history a sitting president conducted an interview solely for the internet.  This project was a tremendous success and received international attention and millions of video streams. In 1998, Jon was a video producer for the world’s first e-commerce website with broadcast film footage.  The company was acquired by Getty Film in 2000.  He has also produced, directed and edited several short films.  

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - News
• Field Producer
• Production Company
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant
• Non-Fiction Film Director

Specialties: Sony XDCam, Sony a7iii camera, Panasonic GH5 DSLR camera, Panasonic GH2 DSLR camera, and Panasonic AG-HPX 300 cameras, licensed and insured Part 107 drone pilot, extensive experience with Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop, producing/directing live productions, hard camera operator on live sports productions, Newtek Tricaster 850, Chyron/Lyric graphics, I currently work full-time at Speedway Motors as a video producer, producing videos featuring classic and race cars. I also produce instructional and educational videos for people wanting to know how to install certain parts on their cars and which part is best for the application they're using. I used to work at Time Warner Cable/Spectrum as a producer/director for Nebraska on Demand, as well as Spectrum Sports--a regional all-sports network. I produced and directed local high school football and basketball broadcasts for Spectrum Sports and am part of our team coverage of Huskers football and basketball. I produced High School Round Up: a bi-weekly magazine local sports show that features area high school sports stories. I was also the lead producer for other specialty shows, such as the Husker Football Recruiting Special and other Husker athletic related shows, and special series such as High School Rewind and Conversations. I have also produced a series called "The Good Life on Demand," which examines the must-see places and events across Nebraska. Before graduating from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a broadcasting degree (August 2003), I started working at KOLN/KGIN-TV in Lincoln, NE in April 2002 as a part-time videographer. In December of that same year, I was promoted to a full-time videographer position. I covered stories ranging from elections, Husker sports, the Hallam Tornado, and Hurricane Katrina. I also set up/shot nightly live shots with our microwave truck. From Mar 2006-Dec '06 I worked as the assignment editor, coordinating reporters' stories and planning news coverage throughout the day and long-term. My wife and I started our own videography business, Five C Video, in 2006. We shoot and edit numerous types of video jobs, including corporate and business videos, sports videos, weddings, recitals, and other events. I am also available for freelance video work, including producing and directing broadcasts, running replay, and other camera operations, with my own or provided equipment.

• Production Company
• Documentary DP
• Fixer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Production Assistant
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Reporter / Journalist
• Drone Operator
• Field Producer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Digital Content Creator
• Commercial DP
• Post-Production Manager

Ty Jones is a Kansas City based filmmaker who has produced, directed or director of photogram for movies, TV, and Web Series that have gained worldwide attention and have played at some of the top film festivals around the world. He has directed and produced over 40 short films and 3 feature films over the past 7 years, many playing around the world at festivals and getting worldwide distribution. Below is a list of a few of the films and also his Reality TV work. DP-The Gnomist — 2015 Tribeca, Hot Docs, LA Short Fest, When fairy homes mysteriously appear in a suburban forest, four women, driven by unquelled curiosity about the origin of this whimsy, find that believing in magic is the medicine they need to overcome their personal struggles and tragedies. Director , writer, Producer — LAST BREATH—Grand Jury Award nominee Dances With Films, Best feature OMAHA FILM FESTIVAL. Temecula Film Festival, Garden State Film Festival Best Feature,

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Production Company
• Drone Operator
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Gaffer
• Grip
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Fixer

Arin Yoon (she/her) is a Korean American documentary photographer and visual artist based in the Kansas City area. Her work focuses on the military community and the impacts of war, displacement, notions of family, women and issues of identity and representation. Arin is a National Geographic Explorer, a We, Women Photo artist, and an International Women's Media Foundation fellow. She is a member of Women Photograph and Diversify Photo and an alumna of the Eddie Adams Workshop and the Missouri Photo Workshop. Her work has been featured in National Geographic, The Washington Post, Reuters, NPR, ProPublica, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, among other publications. Arin has exhibited at venues such as the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History in Seoul, Daegu Arts Center, Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, Anthology Film Archives and A.I.R. Gallery in New York. She has an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts and a BA in Political Science and a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. She is HEFAT certified.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Portrait Photographer
• Landscape Photographer

Don Shepard (USA b.1959) is an award winning photographer living and working in the United States. He's a visionary and an explorer. A photographer of people, places and things. He's rapt with the desire to create honest imagery that transcends time. Educated in forensic and medico-legal photography, Don developed his craft during a career as a law enforcement detective, producing thousands of images used in the prosecution of violent crimes. ​ He retired in 2009. ​ Don is a vetted member of the Kansas City chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and the Chicago chapter of the American Photographic Artists (APA), both of which hold their members to the highest creative and professional standards. He has produced images for national publications including Million Dollar Round Table, Golf Digest, Scientific American and others.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Fashion Photographer

I have a degree in Graphic Design from Iowa State but I fell in love with the camera my second year of college. After picking it up for the first time 6 years ago, and bringing it with me almost everywhere since; I've been putting down the camera more to be a Stills Assistant to train and learn under the local Commercial Shooters My ADHD brain has allowed me to learn and explore many artistic avenues throughout my life such as designing custom typography, filming and photographing skateboarding, playing drums in a punk band, and DIYing the majority of the things I own. Having this heavy multimedia background allows me to offer unique solutions and abstract ideas, not only in conception but through theoretical and tangible execution.

• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Event Photographer
• Production Assistant

I've been working behind the camera for about 10 years, filming documentary, nature, broadcast commercials, branded content, music videos, and more. On and off set you can count on me to keep a level head and positive attitude. I respect my crew, clients, directors, talent, and other collaborators. While I'm a perfectionist at heart, I also know that there's a bigger picture to think about in any situation. My work experience spans from small, run and gun doc teams filming on location to scripted productions with a full crew in the studio.

• Commercial DP
• Drone Operator
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Colorist
• Documentary DP
• Production Company
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Corporate Videographer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

I am an Audio Engineer and Video Editor from Albuquerque, New Mexico. For the last 4 years I have been working in commercial advertising in and around Kansas City. I have been a part of over 300 national broadcast spots including spots for Facebook, the NFL, Godaddy, Evergy, Toyota, The Kansas City Kansas Fire Department and many more. My skillsets include Original Music Composition, Sound Design, Foley, Studio, (remote and local) Recording/Mixing/Mastering, On-Set Sound Recording/Mixing, Video Editing, Compositing, as well as Color Correction and Grading

• Sound Mixer
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Music Composer
• Sound Designer
• Colorist

I am Travis Hampton. I am a filmmaker out of Kansas City Missouri who specializes in Camera operation and Cinematography. I have also worked in other positions such as Grip/Gaff, on set sound, and as a production assistant. Some of my recent work includes sound for “Lost and Alone” (IX Film Productions), Camera for “The Fountain City Smoketacular” (IX Film X The Bird Comedy Theatre), and as an actor for “Trust Me” (Warehouse Ensemble). I am very flexible and interested in all positions in production.

• Production Assistant
• Gaffer
• Documentary DP
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• On-Camera Talent
• Grip

Noe Ramirez is an up and coming comedian based out of Omaha NE. While sharing his perspective as a Mexican-American he blends storytelling and observational humor to create relatable material that resonates with audiences of all backgrounds. Whether it's growing up in a Mexican household in the US, or navigating the complexities of culture and identity, Noe has shared his life experience, making folks laugh all over the country. With a high energy and silly style, Noe Ramirez is a comedian you don't want to miss out on!

• On-Camera Talent

With nearly a decade of experience in broadcast commercial film production, I'm capable of handling any project you might have. I have a proven track record. My reel, found on my website, shows the level of productions I take on and those are only the ones that will fit into a 60-second video. I've been a part of nearly 300 productions since 2017, and I have the equipment and people to pull of a production of nearly any scale. I'm able to produce documentary content, commercial advertisements, and internal corporate videos with skill and precision.

• Production Company
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP

Ben has performed onstage with several companies and groups for many years. He has taught workshops and classes in acting, improvisation, and Shakespeare for all ages for multiple groups/organizations. He has directed high-school, university, and regional productions. He has appeared in local and national commercials for television, print, and radio as well as voicing characters for several cartoon series including, “Archie's Weird Mysteries”, “Horseland”, “Dino Squad”, and “Liberty's Kids”. Ben has a BA in Theatre with an emphasis in Acting/Directing from the University of NE-Omaha.  

• Audio Storyteller