Discover Top Freelancers in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican filmmaker known for his documentary work and music videos. In 2001 he began as director, videographer and editor in the award winning Geoambiente, on which he travelled through the island's natural habitats and cities, working with scientists and communities to reflect on current environmental challenges. In 2005, he directed and edited the feature documentary "Aljuriya", which examined the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the perspective of activists involved in the struggle. Gabriel is also recognized for his Emmy Award winning musical feature “Sono, Sono, Tite Curet” (2011), the bio of a legendary musical composer and his legacy throughout Latin Amercia, and New York. In 2014, he was the recipient of the international fund Doctv for his feature documentary “Armonía”, about the struggle of a small town unemployed music teacher. He has also worked as freelance editor and videographer in feature films, documentaries, music videos and commercials.

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

Throughout my 20-year career as a photojournalist, I have contributed my skills as a visual storyteller to international news agencies, publications and NGOs, as well as created and led projects in collaboration with photographers across the Americas. I also have experience developing multimedia products which advance an organization’s mission by creating or curating stories that accurately portray relevant issues, as I have done for the Inter-American Development Bank and the Human Civil Rights Commission. I would be eager to add my experience and skills to your project. Please consider the following highlights of my qualifications: · Developed multimedia pieces and photo essays on: the effects of global warming on the indigenous communities of the Amazonian river basin; the life of communities in one of the most polluted places in the world, Old Fadama, Ghana; and a series of stories on the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. · Created Pictoris, a non-profit collective formed by a network of Latin American photographers portraying the issues that affect marginalized groups across the continent. · Published widely in national and international publications, and experience working with international news agencies such as Getty Images, Reuters and Asablanca. It would be great to meet you, and learn more about your goals for the work.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Drone Operator
• Field Producer
• Production Assistant
• Portrait Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Audio Storyteller
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Post-Production Manager
• Fixer
• Video Editor - News

Born in 1996 in the island of Puerto Rico, Natasha Cánepa always had an active mind when it comes to art from doodling in her notebooks to drawing/painting in her art class. With the drive to become an artist, she pursued a bachelor's degree in Animation in 2014 at Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. During her time there, she would expand on her skillset through several aspects of production like storyboarding, character animation and post-production, inspiring her to take on multiple projects including her own student shorts with her third-year film “Ready to Fight” and her personal project “Lay Your Hands on Me”, an abstract animation with Boom Boom Satellites’s namesake song as its main theme. Her college path was soon topped with her senior film “Magic Play”, a project made by a small team of students, which was recognized by both SCAD and over a hundred festivals around the world including Puerto Rico’s LUSCA Fantastic Film Fest where it would earn the award for Best Local Animation. Today, she is working as an independent artist with her one-woman studio, Natasha Cánepa Animation Studios, offering multiple services in animation production along with leading the brand Forever Boricua which covers her traditional hand painted works inspired by the vibrant lifestyle of her island. Her client work ranges from advertising to educational material through businesses including Invision and Creator Up with each one being taken care of with highest regards to quality. Meanwhile, her production work can be recently seen in the short film “Metro6” as Writer, Storyboard Artist and 2D Effects Animator, Min Micglaugh’s All Nighter Survival Guide as Storyboard Artist and in her next short, “Place to Place”, a project that was primarily made during quarantine in 2020. Outside of work, she would connect with young artists on social media and regularly help them with sharing their art and her advice in developing their brand in the digital age.

• Animator / Visual Effects Artist
• Creative Director
• Production Company
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Sound Designer
• Colorist

Ana is a Colombian visual journalist based in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Her work has been published by UnivisionNoticias.com, The Village Voice, WNYC, El Pais, El Diario La Prensa and Voices of NY. She is a New York Times Student Journalism Institute alumna and holds a master’s degree in visual storytelling and health journalism from CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Ana is passionate about multi-platform storytelling, social issues, immigration policy, health and climate change. Awards and exhibitions Photoville Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar (Short Term Documentary Project, Honorable Mention).

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - News
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Production Company
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Translator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant

Television Producer (news, sports, entertainment, special events and special series) for more than 25+ years in Puerto Rico and United States. In the last couple of month has worked for companies such as ESPN producing an special serie in the USA and lately for CNN Domestic covering Huracane Irma in Puerto Rico. Other companies that I have worked as a freelance producer included Al Jazeera America, Univision and Telemundo Network, Showtime, HBO among others.

• Fixer
• Field Producer
• Creative Director
• TV News Producer
• Production Assistant
• Translator

Soy Director de fotografia. Vivo en Puerto Rico. Soy una persona extrovertida. Me gusta aprender. No hay nada que me haga mas feliz que mi trabajo. Tengo una Van de Produccion para alquiler que cuenta con un un gran inventario de luces y griperia, cámaras y monitores. Damos servicios de produccion y consultoria. Contamos con un estudio y otros servicios. Puedes ver mas se nuestro proyecto en @azucafilms @van.zuca @vemostudios Estamos siempre en la mejor disposición de ayudar.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Product Photographer
• Creative Director
• Production Company
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Digital Content Creator
• Fashion Photographer
• Social Media Producer
• Corporate Videographer
• Graphic Designer
• Gaffer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

Journalist with experience in traditional and digital newsroom based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I've worked as a field producer and fixer in stories about the aftermath of Hurricane Irma and María, agriculture and education. I have a diverse network of community leaders, organizers, and activists from all over the island.

• Field Producer
• Video Editor - News
• Fixer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Reporter / Journalist

I'm a storyteller, independent journalist, editor, and content producer. I've had experience in print and digital outlets, mainly writing or producing content about social movements, gender/equality, politics, among others. *MSc Media, Communication and Development from the London School of Economics. * BA Journalism from the University of Puerto Rico.

• Copywriter
• Copy Editor
• Reporter / Journalist
• Field Producer
• Social Media Producer
• Digital Content Creator

Documentary & photojournalist based in Puerto Rico. I’ve worked as a freelance photographer for Bloomberg, Anadolu Agency, Americares and other local or regional news media. My work has been published internationally, including in TIME, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• Production Assistant

Currently in my fifth year of BA in Communications with a major concentration in Digital Production and a minor in Photography. I have worked as a production assistant in various projects, as well as directed, photographed and edited personal projects.

• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Production Assistant
• Translator
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• Transcriber

Since 2008, Jaime Villa Ruiz has honed his craft as a filmmaker to create striking moving images that tell a story. Starting as an Art Department Coordinator and Set Dresser, Jaime later transitioned to working behind the camera. His projects have taken him around the world with clients like Amazon Studios, Awesomeness TV, ESPN, Fandango, Facebook Watch, Flex, HBO, LA Metro, Lifetime/ AE, Nike, Tastemade, and many more. In 2014, he won a Craft Award at NYU’s First Run Festival for his cinematography in the short The Banaue Boy. His first feature film as a cinematographer, Pecado Original, won Best Foreign Film at the DTLA Film Festival in 2018, continuing its festival run at the Austin Film Festival and the Chicago Latino Film Festival among others. The film is now distributed by HBO and AppleTV+. Recently, he shot and directed Pachyman’s El Benson music video. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Jaime enjoys aromatic Caribbean coffee, boxing in the mornings, reading anything from self-help books to revolutionary history, and pointing his film camera at anything light touches.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Sound Mixer
• Gaffer

Storytelling, whether real or imagined, is an art form as well as a craft. I'm an award-winning screenwriter, film director, journalist, and architect, but when people ask me what I do, I tell them I'm a storyteller. I have been working alongside, and increasingly, leading creative teams in the development and production of award-winning film, journalism and architecture projects for over 11 years. Most recently I was named a Finalist in the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Screenplay Competition for my short film, Rich Like Julio Lobo. I have worked with major global news organizations like Gizmodo, Global Citizen, Univision, VOA ( Voice of America), Circa News, and Al Jazeera to provide groundbreaking news coverage of the devastation caused by Hurricane María on the island of Puerto Rico. My academic background includes Master’s level studies in Architecture at Washington University of St. Louis, one of the top 10 programs in the nation, and Bachelor studies in History at Tufts University in Boston. I also studied film at the New York Film Academy and the Academie de Paris, and architecture at The Helsinki Institute of Technology. How can I help you tell your story?

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - News
• Production Company
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Fixer
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Reporter / Journalist

Cristian Carretero is a filmmaker originally from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He graduated with a B.A. in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College, and also studied cinematography at FAMU (Prague). In 2014 he received his MFA from New York University. His films are mainly concerned with the contemporary Puerto Rican and Caribbean reality. In 2016 he won two Emmy Awards for producing the documentary “Semillas” and the science television show “LCC” both made for WIPR TV. His original work has screened at BAM Cinematek, Anthology Film Archives, Montreal Film Festival, Denver Film Festival, Habana Film Festival, Sydney Latin American Film Festival, San Francisco Short Film Festival, Clermont Ferrand Film Festival, just to name a few. In 2013 his acclaimed short about dominican immigration, "Yolanda" won Best Short Film at the Festival de Cine Global Dominicano, Screen Loud Film Festival at the Anthology Film Archives, and the Carl Lerner Award for social significance, among other international recognitions. His short film "This Island”, commissioned by the French Institute, won Best Short by at the Festival de Cine Europeo. In 2015 he produced the experimental short “Diptico” commissioned by the “Santurce es Ley” urban art festival. In 2016 he finished a short shot in Harlem, New York, titled “The Ticket”, which debuted in the Habana Film Festival. He currently works as a freelancer collaborating with companies including National Geographic, CNN, i24, CienciaPR, among others.

• Commercial DP
• Fixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Sound Mixer
• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

I am a communicator with extensive experience covering topics as economic, political and cultural issues, which has allowed me to expand my vision of the world. I have the necessary determination to carry out complex tasks, standing out as a responsible, agile and collaborative teamwork. My main goal is to complete milestones on an excellent timeline to stand out the company's goals and highlight future growth. I have developed skills in graphic design, interviewing, hosting programs and producing. I'm just like a chameleon, learning at a fast paste and collaborating to get projects done. Oh, and I'm a fluent Spanish and English speaker and writer.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Translator
• Transcriber
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Audio Storyteller
• Social Media Producer
• Creative Director
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Post-Production Manager
• TV News Producer
• Copywriter
• Copy Editor
• Digital Content Creator

I have a 20 year career as a print journalist covering all types of events, including the crime beat, infrastructure, judiciary and legislative matters. Interested in expanding my career toward the production side.

• Field Producer
• Copy Editor
• Copywriter
• Reporter / Journalist
• Transcriber
• Translator
• Fixer

I have lived in San Juan, Puerto Rico since 1996. I have traveled extensively in the Caribbean, Europe and in Africa and Indonesia. Clients include Getty Latin America, Pfizer, Telemundo, Glaxo and others.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Fashion Photographer
• Typographer
• Copywriter

BA Telecommunications minor journalism and internship in Spain publicists and public’s relationships

• Hair and Make-up Artist
• On-Air Reporter / Host

Multi-platform content producer and project manager Tamaris Cañals has assumed many roles in the entertainment business. For more information please visit website at www.lunaticaproductions.com

• Creative Director
• Field Producer
• Fixer
• TV News Producer
• Production Company
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Translator
• Production Assistant

I’m a freelance videographer, with knowledge in different areas as DP, camera operator, DIT, gaffer and documentary.

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

Based in Puerto Rico Videographer - Photographer

• Video Editor - Commercial
• Event Photographer
• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - News