Discover Top Senior Producers / Project Managers in Santa Maria, California, USA

Martin Andres Markovits is an award-winning writer, director, producer and multi-media reporter. He worked as a freelance journalist in Latin America for publications such as the San Francisco Chronicle, The New Statesman, Fusion and the Huffington Post. He has produced video features for China Global Television Network and the PBS News Hour and was an international correspondent for CGTN America. He has reported extensively in Venezuela and Mexico covering both the Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro presidencies and also the Mexican drug war. Martin graduated with a master's degree in broadcast journalism from Columbia University. His directorial debut “Tupamaro: Urban Guerrillas” won Best Feature Film at the 2017 Beverly Hills International Film Festival and Best Documentary Feature at the 2017 UK Film Festival. It premiered on Nat Geo Mundo and ARTE. Martin is a Los Angeles native and graduated from UCSB with a degree in political science.

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Derek is a freelance video producer based out of Long Beach, CA. His creative journey began in the US Navy as the command photographer for USS Howard (DDG 83) a guided-missile destroyer. While onboard he engaged in documenting such activities as hunting submarines, foreign government training exercises, and volunteer work in underprivileged communities abroad. Beginning in 2017 he began his freelance career back stateside working with local wineries and small businesses in the bay area while completing his bachelor's degree in Radio, TV, and Film from San Jose State University. While in college he won awards for Best Cinematography and Scriptwriting for films he produced for college film festivals. His freelance career started to pick up speed in 2018 when he signed with Silicon Valley Clean Energy as their content creator, from 2020-2021 they completed a first of its kind, 5-hour training course on home electrification, serving as a tool to educate contractors and homeowners about living the all-electric lifestyle. Derek has been involved with productions with some of the top tech companies in the bay area including LinkedIn, Intuit, PayPal, and Apple. If you need a top-tier, professional, and easy to work with video producer, then Derek is no question the choice for you.

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Seventy Six Films is a dynamic film production company with over a decade of experience. Our talented team of creators will make your ideas come to life. From commercials, feature documentaries, music videos and brand films, we do it all. Our team is skilled in creating projects or boost an existing project through providing expert services in variety of positions such as DP, Director, Producer and more. We also provide high quality video and recording equipment for our shoots. This helps save time and cost for our Clients. In every project, our mission is to create impactful visuals for effective storytelling. We excel in helping individuals and organizations use video to tell their stories, share their message, and build marketing momentum for their brand. Whether it’s a brand documentary, a social media clip, or a commercial, we use creativity and the best industry leading technology to tell your story.

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Trace Dominguez is a curiosity explorer, science communicator, Emmy-nominated on-camera host, Telly-winning producer, and podcaster. He crafts stories that educate and inspire across all aspects of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (with some art thrown in for good measure). Trace is the producer and host of Star Gazers, the world's only weekly television series covering naked eye astronomy; it airs nationwide on PBS. Trace was the co-founder of Seeker (in partnership with the Discovery Channel; now part of Vox Media). With Seeker he hosted, wrote, and produced several digital properties growing an audience of many millions and earning over a billion views. His curiosity podcast "That's Absurd Please Elaborate" reaches several thousand listeners a month, and he creates and produces "Uno Dos of Trace, " a YouTube show with millions of views. Additionally, he consults with clients like the Environmental Defense Fund on digital strategy and creator strategy. Trace has a B.S. in Psychology from Western Michigan University and an M.A. in Strategic Communication from American University. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Formerly the Multimedia Editor at HuffPost, I moved to Colombia to pursue freelance projects, and I covered social and environmental justice all across the country, for Al Jazeera, Washington Post, Greenpeace, the BBC and more. I was recently awarded an O1 Extraordinary Ability visa to move to the US, and I am now based in LA, where I am working at a documentary production company. I have previously been awarded grants to film and produce experimental 360 videos to tell climate change stories, and I have training in - and experience of - reporting from hostile environments. I am currently working on a short doc for First Look Media, filming in a prison; an investigative feature-length doc filming in LA; and a number of short news packages for Deutsche Welle, the BBC and Al Jazeera. I am represented by UTA and split my time between LA, London and Colombia.

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J. Claude Deering has worked as a Digital Producer, Writer and Director for MSN, Funny or Die, CollegeHumor, Fullscreen, New Form Digital, Pitch.live and TBWA\Chiat\Day. He's the creator of "Things Are Going Great For Me", a Funny or Die talk show, produced by Betsy Koch ("Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles"). His web series, "The World According to Jeff" was a finalist for the Sundance Institute | YouTube New Voices Lab. And his work has been featured in The Huffington Post, Vulture and Bustle. He's also a lifetime member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors LAB. BFA - NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

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Director, Cinematographer and Producer with 10 years experience in Documentary, Commercial, Travel and Television. Produced and DP'd the Sundance nominated and Magnolia distributed documentary Whose Streets on the Ferguson uprising. Have shot and directed for Condé Nast, Viacom, MTV, RevoltTV, Verizon, Complex and more.

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Alexis is a versatile entertainment professional with over 9 years of experience in physical production, creative development and managing content strategy. She specializes in creating premium content, both scripted and unscripted - including short and long form branded, lifestyle and docu-series programming. Alexis is a Writer, Editor (+ motion graphics), Shooter and Producer.

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Steven Gute is a filmmaker who has worn many hats in his now 20-year career. Gute works as a director, producer, writer, cinematographer, journalist and editor, and already has a long resume of credits stretching across a multitude of formats. While his origins lay in narrative films, he eventually worked on a number of documentary films, including: Leonardo Di Caprio's 11th Hour; followed by Radicalized, a portrait of millennial resistance during the Occupy movement; ongoing front-line documentation of protests at Standing Rock and Black Lives Matter; and ultimately, leading a team to the Arctic to film glaciers in decline for HBO’s Ice on Fire. He has worked as a journalist for institutions like The Young Turks and Red Canary Collective. His current series about water (Confluence) has taken him to 48 states thus far. Steven is a one man studio and hopes to continue to shine light on the truth.

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Hi, I’m Timothy and I look forward to connecting with you on Storyhunter! For 15+ years I’ve enjoyed working on films and television series on 7 continents as a producer and EMMY-nominated cinematographer for content seen on Al Jazeera, Discovery, Hulu, NYT, PBS, Netflix, Showtime, and VICE. I have deep experience working as a one-person band and overseeing crews, am a Part 107 Drone Pilot, PADI certified, a UC Berkeley-trained journalist, fluent in Spanish, and a Boat Captain. With my company Documenting Life Productions I am the director, producer, and cinematographer of 4 feature documentaries including 2 theatrically released Oscar qualifiers on themes including science and technology, the environment, and an especially meaningful film chronicling my Aunt Diana Nyad becoming the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida. I am now consulting producer on NETFLIX’s forthcoming NYAD starring Annette Benning and Jodie Foster. EARLY INSPIRATION IN STORYTELLING As an adventurous kid, I would anxiously await visits from my Aunt Diana Nyad (yes, the famous swimmer!) to tell stories of sled riding at the Alaskan Iditarod or diving with whales in Patagonia while working as an on-air correspondent for ABC Wild World of Sports. Diana's experiences helped set my eyes on a future in storytelling and I spent my college summers working 80 hours/week as an NBC Production Assistant, plotting my post-college career in Hollywood. FROM UNDERGRAD TO GLOBAL ADVENTURER Destined for my own adventures, I finished undergrad in Barcelona, backpacked around Latin America and Asia, landed in war-torn Colombia volunteering for human rights orgs, and found a new drive to make a positive impact on the world. A Hollywood assistant job didn’t sound attractive anymore, yet work in Colombia wasn't paying the bills so I attended UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism to acquire real-world journalism training while working as an Assoc. Producer for the doc series PBS Frontline/World and as a summer reporting fellow at the Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia. After winning the best doc prize at Berkeley, I felt I was on the path to a meaningful career. LET'S CONNECT Outside of work, my fiancé, Lora, and I, have created our own paradise living aboard our boat in Marina del Rey, and we recently built out a Joshua Tree AirBnB. Our dog, Lina, loves it there. If you’re looking for world-class storytelling with a record of conceptualizing, pitching, writing, producing, directing, cinematography, audio, and distributing, then we should definitely talk. I love exploring complex subjects and making them easy and engaging for everyone to understand. Thanks for reading my story, Timothy Wheeler ~

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After film school, I started my career in New York City as a Production Assistant and editor. It was exciting to balance my time between production and being on set and post production and editing a project for months at a time. My first producing job was a music video for James Taylor. I moved to Los Angeles and produced music videos and commercials. Soon after, I found myself going to Nashville to produce country music videos for Brooks and Dunn, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Dolly Parton, Martina McBride. I have been nominated for 14 Academy Of Country Music Awards for Producer / Best Music Video and have won the award 5 times. In-between the music videos I would produce commercials for clients such as FORD, Tropicana Juice, Kraft Foods, Varilux, Kia, Jack Daniels and Blue Cross to name a few. ​ Always keeping busy, I moved into Television producing specials and long form DVD's for NBC, ABC and FOX. Some of these include: THE PASSION (FOX - Produced all of the pre tape segments), Olivia Newton John-Live from the Sydney Opera house (a Live 10 camera performance based DVD), WIND IN THE WIRE - Producer for a TV movie for ABC, Rascal Flats, Nothing Like This - (ABC) a behind the scenes look of the band creating a new album. Along with numerous promos for NBC/Universal, Fox and ABC. ​ I've even kept up my editing skills by cutting documentaries for Wings Over Wendy's, Pioneers of the Automobile and several commercials and web series. ​ My philosophy has always been to create a “team” atmosphere with my production crew. Growing up, i worked in the family run dry cleaners, where my dad taught me every aspect of the dry cleaning industry. I learned to deal with the public and manage employees. I have put this same type of experience into producing. Over the years I have learned details of all equipment and I try to stay current with the latest trends in everything from cameras to lighting styles. I have made it a point to learn as much as I can from every department on a movie set or in post production. This comes in handy when budgeting and dealing with problems that arise during production. Because of my experience, I am able to aid in decisions and even think outside the box to come up with solutions to a problem. My background producing commercials, promos, documentaries, music videos and multi-camera shows has taught me that there are many creative solutions to the problems that arise in production.

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Nat Prinzi is a multi-faceted creative entrepreneur who has founded multiple entertainment and multimedia companies, each a vehicle to express his unique creative vision and ideal. Prinzi has directed, created, and produced over 300 projects, including original series, award-winning short films, documentaries, music videos, and ad campaigns for fortune 500 companies. He has worked with a variety of brands including Pepsi, Verizon, Instagram, Swatch Group, Converse, Uninterrupted, New Balance, De Beers, Linkedin, Dell, ASUS, Morgan Stanley, Roc Nation, Macy's, Dell, Charles Schwab, COMPLEX and more. Nat is also the Founder and Executive Producer of Betterdays Media, and serves as the lead creative, and directorial force behind Betterdays’ array of projects in the commercial, digital, scripted and unscripted spaces. ________ Betterdays Media is an award winning full-service Production and Entertainment company with offices in New York and Los Angeles. We specializes in the creation of commercial, branded, and entertainment content for major brands, agencies, networks, and publishers worldwide. We are a diverse group of creatives, producers, and innovators with an insatiable hunger for storytelling and getting shit done. Our focus and sensibilities stem from a deep cultural attunement to the newest movements in music, culture, style, and filmmaking. We've created and produced original series, award-winning films, ad campaigns for fortune 500 companies, as well as music videos for grammy award-winning artists. Betterdays represents a collection of diverse and innovative award-winning Directors, Producers, Cinematographers, and Post-Production artists. Whether a social campaign, brand film, or a 30 second spot - our work is driven by our purpose to create entertaining, elevated, result driven content. Betterdays prides itself in being a minority owned company, and operated by women and BIPOC.

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Savannah Bloch is an American/South African filmmaker and graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Her feature film directorial debut, And Then There Was Eve, won a 2017 Jury Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival and opened numerous Women’s Film Festivals across the U.S. As a digital producer/cinematographer, Savannah created 50+ mini-documentaries for Hearst Digital Media and over 300 videos for medical education. Shooting documentary footage of Chinese neocolonialism in Nicaragua, the eviscerating impact of shrapnel on Syrian refugees and rural surgery in remote Bolivia have reshaped her view of the world and unearthed more questions. As a cinematographer, Savannah shot the award-winning feature film, Quality Problems and has worked with brands such as Us Weekly, Popsugar, TLC, and Netflix. Savannah studied stage directing in NYC at The Barrow Group and afterwards honed her skills as an actor’s director in two plays. One is a dark comedy about a dysfunctional family and the second probes the post-9/11 Sikh experience. Currently, Savannah is in post-production on an Irish music documentary. Savannah runs a weekly director’s workshop in Hollywood called The Sandbox and teaches cinematography at USC. Her passions include social innovation, feminism, surfing and veganism.

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Elizabeth Walsh is a New York Times published journalist and ghostwriter based in Los Angeles. Since 2017, she has produced award-winning discussion programs for Al Jazeera English, including UpFront, Head to Head and The Stream. For three years, she produced interviews for Mehdi Hasan. Walsh's expertise includes interviewing, research, writing, reporting, fact checking, video production, copyediting and coaching. As a ghostwriter, she works primarily for Robin Colucci, LLC, whose clients have been published by the "Big 5" and other top publishing houses. Their books have made appearances on the New York Times, Amazon and USA Today best seller lists. Walsh holds a master's degree in international affairs from Sciences Po Paris and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Virginia with a degree in English Literature.

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Irvin is a Director of Photography based in Los Angeles interested in telling stories that explore the human condition and diverse cultures. Recently he was nominated for the Panavision Award for Best Narrative Feature Cinematography for his work in Dealing With Dad. The film also won the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 2022 LA Asian Film Festival. Another one of his recent work, Query, premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for Best Narrative Short. He has also had the pleasure of teaching a Film Independent Masterclass in Cinematography in Egypt during the 44th Cairo International Film Festival. He has been a fellow in the Film Independent's Project Involve Cinematography Fellowship and ASC Mentorship program.

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Emily Grandcolas is a documentary filmmaker and photographer who holds a B.A. in Film and Television Production from the University of Southern California. Grandcolas is known for her coordinating and producing work on international projects and pressing domestic documentaries.        Her work has been on display on NPR's Latino USA, PBS, the Gayle and Ed Roski Master of Fine Arts Gallery, the USC Fisher Museum of Art, film festivals such as the Sarasota and UNAFF Film Festivals and on the site Girls Will be Girls.      

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I love creating content and telling stories. I can wear many hats. I come up with ideas, produce, shoot, write scripts, interview, edit and fly drones. I am strong and can handle a video stabilizer. There is always a cool story to tell, we just need to pay attention. I am extremely interested in climate change, human stories, travel, food and animal stories. I don't stop until I get the job done!

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With an extensive background in video production, editing, and project management, I am a passionate producer, shooter and editor using my skills to craft stories with purpose. I am a natural problem solver who can manage production teams, schedules and budgets effectively, shoot high-quality videos and edit quickly. I have shot nearly 100 documentary style videos featuring interviews and b-roll over the past three years and always excited to work with your team on the next project.

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With over a decade in feature film production, from independent to studio blockbuster (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1939064/), I continue to follow my passion for storytelling with short films, documentary projects both on video and photography, focusing on social causes and character based stories.

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I'm a Syrian-American director/dp/photographer; raised in my parents' hometown of Aleppo, Syria, and based in my birthplace, Los Angeles. As a cinematographer, I specialize in verite, interviews, and slow motion. I work at the intersection of doc and narrative, and am heavily invested in decolonizing filmmaking in terms of process, form and visual language.

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