Discover Top Freelancers in Recife, Brazil

Based in Pernambuco, Brazil, João Velozo is a freelance photographer specialized in covering urban violence, human rights, and environmental issues, most specifically those taking place in the Brazilian Northeast. Once a Biology major, he quit the academic area in order to focus on photography, through which he felt he could promote bigger changes and social justice. His work as a photographer reflects his continuous dedication to humanitarian and environmental causes. During the Covid-19 pandemic, João reverted the profit made from the sale of his photos to food donations for poor families in his town - an act that aligns with his lifelong personal and professional beliefs. Listed as one of the main photographers of his generation by the 2016 TV show Caçadores de Alma (Soulseekers), João has previously worked for Deutsche Welle, NPR, VICE, Folha de São Paulo, Zero Hora, Diário de Pernambuco, and Doctors Without Borders. He was also one of the recipients of the Yunghi Grant 2018 Award for his work on the population struggling with the lack of access to water in the Brazilian Northeast. In 2020, his book "São Francisco", a visual narrative about the drought in the Brazilian semiarid region, won the Troféu HQMIX festival, the most important Award for comics in Latin America. Since 2019, he also collaborates with Contact Press Images as a contributor. João sees journalism as a way to connect those who cannot speak to those who want to hear.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Documentary DP

Thiago Hora is majoring in Communication with specialization in Audiovisual, It Technician with experience in film photography, capturing and editing audio, Film producer and director. Operates in the audiovisual production chain since 2005, has worked and performed several projects for ethnographic documentaries and cultural. Thiago has been Secretary and President of ABD-Sergipe, a cultural association nonprofit advocacy of the interests of documentary filmmakers and short films, which developed several management skills, corporate communication and cultural policy. Has taught workshops in the area of ??video and photography to low-income communities. Have also worked as a producer, editor and publisher of video content to the Website and Electronic Media of The Institute of Social Rebuilding. He also worked as a producer on the Foundation Aperipê de Sergipe, network radio and television public of Sergipe state, but also on TV University of Pernambuco - TVU. Makes filming and editing weddings for the company is Valsinha Filme Movies and film photographers in the company Bateu Castelo. I like to hunt life stories of people who serve as examples of a new paradigm of sociability.

• Documentary DP
• Sound Mixer

Zoe Sullivan is an experienced multi-media journalist with expertise on environmental, gender and urban issues. She has reported from a range of places in Latin America, the US and Europe for outlets such as the Guardian, Al Jazeera English, Marketplace, DW, and National Public Radio. She produced a half-hour radio documentary examining flooding and land-loss issues in southern Louisiana and Venice, Italy, and has reported on conflicts around hydropower dams in the Brazilian Amazon. Zoe has a BA from Brown University in Development Studies and an MA in participartory research methods from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex (UK). Zoe won support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism in 2015 for a report on the lending practices that trap Guatemalan migrants in debt.

• Fixer
• TV News Producer
• Sound Mixer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Translator

Over 15 years shooting video for TV documentaries, news and entertainment (including cinema and advertising). Member of ABC (Brazilian Association of Cinematographers). Very experienced in underwater and nature pictures. Can easily multitask (one-man-crew, if needed) or work in full size crews. Have been traveling a lot for different TV jobs, mostly for nature and social related documentaries. Worked on award wining projects.

• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• Fixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Translator
• Video Editor - Documentary

Criativo, versátil, determinado e comunicativo. Com sede de cultura, conhecimento e pessoas. Conhecer por observação direta, inserindo-se na vida cotidiana de um grupo para compreender as relações sócio-culturais, os comportamentos, ritos, técnicas, saberes e práticas das sociedades visitadas.

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

I'm a brazilian, latinamerican videomaker. Interested on culture stories, documentary, journalistic and politic videos. // Sou brasileiro, nordestino e vídeo maker. Me interesso por histórias de cultura, documentários, reportagens e políticas. Pedro Luna.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Corporate Videographer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• TV News Producer

7 years experienced with after effects, motion graphics design and video editing.

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