Discover Top Documentary DPs in Sidon, Lebanon

Mia Alberti is a multimedia freelance reporter with a strong focus on Europe and Latin America. Currently working between São Paulo and Lisbon, Mia has covered some of the most important news stories in the last years, from the Venezuelan migrant crisis, the Amazon fires, violence against indigenous people, Brexit, terrorist attacks in Europe and the covid-19 pandemic.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
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• Fixer
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Production Assistant
• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Full-Service Live Production
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Audio Storyteller
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer

Dania Bdeir is a Lebanese writer/director of Syrian origins. She was born in Canada, where her parents fled to escape the Lebanese civil war, and then moved back to Beirut where she got her Bacherlor's degree in graphic design at the American University of Beirut. Dania is getting her MFA in film at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Her short film Kaleidoscope, shot in Beirut has traveled to numerous film festivals around the world. She is currently living in between Lebanon and New York while she writes her first feature film which she plans to shoot in both Beirut and New York as her thesis film. Dania has always had a passion for Lebanon and sharing the untold stories of the Middle East. This passion draws her to journalistic and documentary work that deal with people and social issues, which she enjoys and uses as inspiration for her narrative work.

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

www.hajjarsisters.com Elsy Hajjar is a Beirut-based Director of Photography shooting in the commercial and narrative space. Her first short film “I Call it Love" (2013) won her several cinematography awards and prizes. “The Rifle, The jackal, The Wolf and The Boy” a short film shot by Elsy Hajjar, was shortlisted for the Live-action shorts section at the Oscars (2016) "Aziza" a film shot by Elsy and directed by Syrian filmmaker Saudade Kaadan won Best Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival (2019) Hajjar is working as a Beirut-based freelance cinematographer, and often travels to various destinations for work. Cinematography and filmmaking are an intense passion that drives every day of her life. She is highly interested in social issues, human rights, minority rights, and gender studies.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer
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• Line Producer / On-Location
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Non-Fiction Film Director
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• Gaffer
• Digital Content Creator

Trained international news and politics reporter with extensive experience in shooting and video editing, broadcast writing and presenting, for breaking news in fast-paced broadcast environments and longer-form doc-style projects. Iranian/British background, London born and raised with experience working in diverse communities and challenging conditions. Oxford and Ivy League educated in politics, social issues and foreign policy. Experience and training in hostile environments. Trained in broadcast storytelling with Vin Ray and camera skills with Philip Bloom. Worked for The Economist, Al Jazeera English, BBC, United Nations TV, Politics Home and local New York news site DNAinfo.com.

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• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
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• Audio Storyteller
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• Reporter / Journalist

Dana is a Lebanese-American reporter based between Beirut, Lebanon and California. She mainly covers the Syrian war, refugee crisis, and entrepreneurship in the Middle East. Her strengths are in reporting, writing, photography, shooting and basic video editing. She previously worked for The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera America, and the United Nations Development Program in Beirut. Dana holds a Masters degree in Journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Fixer
• TV News Producer

Based between Beirut and New York, my expertise is human rights and storytelling. I find stories of strength and resilience in the midst of extraordinary circumstances. I shoot, produce and edit as a one-man-band. Was formerly with HRW for 5 years as a video producer, now work for HRW, Amnesty International and OSF.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Field Producer
• Creative Director

TV journalist bas in Paris. Travelling often for freelance stories. Focus on : Lebanon, Syria, and USA. Also able to work as a fixer in Paris and France. Previously based in Beirut from 2012 - 2015. Previous works for : TV5 Monde, TF1, Canal +, RTS (Swiss), Huffington Post, Irinnews Both videographer (with my own camera) and print journalist. Able to write in english and french.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
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• Fixer
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• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Born in Lebanon, Jocelyne Abi Gebrayel studied Photography for a year before turning into film studies and receving her Master degree in 2000. Since then she has been working as a Director of Photography on many award winning documentary films revolving around humanitarian and sociopolitical issues in the Middle East and in the North Africa region.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

I'm a skilled Video Producer and photographer with more than 10 years of experience. I film and edit documentaries for international NGOs and I cover stories for different channels. I also work on promotional spots, corporate movies and events.

• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Drone Operator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Fixer

I'm a cinematographer and Editor living in Beirut shooting documentaries, comercials and short films all over the world. I'm always willing to experiment with process. I own and operate several different camera and lighting systems depending on the needs of the client.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
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• Corporate Videographer
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• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Post-Production Manager
• TV News Producer
• Fixer
• Production Assistant

Jude Chehab is a Lebanese-American filmmaker based between New York and Beirut. Her cinematic interests have drawn Jude to the exploration of the esoteric, the spiritual and the unspoken. A richly layered visual and intimate personal shooting style developed under the mentorship of Abbas Kiarostami’s final student group; Jude has been credited in collaborations with the BBC, Refinery29, Oxfam GB, and Doctors Without Borders. She has worked as a DP internationally, on films in Somalia, Sudan and Pakistan and was most recently, an AP on Sesame Street’s newest show for Syrian refugees. Her work has been awarded fellowships through: CAAM, NeXtDoc, Points North Institute, Firelight Media, Close-Up and Chicken and Egg. Jude is currently in production on her first feature documentary based in Lebanon and has been supported by: IDA, ITVS, TFI, Sundance and recently was awarded First Prize in the Docs in Progress program at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival. Filmmaker Magazine named her one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. www.judechehab.com

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
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• Video Editor - News
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• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Series Producer / Show Runner
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I am a photographer, video journalist and writer based in the Middle East. I trained as a press photographer in the UK and cut my teeth working for national publications before moving to Iraqi Kurdistan In 2013. I became picture editor and trainer at Metrography, Iraq's first photo agency, where I mentored photographers and worked to raise the profile of Iraqi photojournalism on the international stage. After leaving Metrography, I covered the rise and fall of the Islamic State in Iraq and the changing fortunes of Iraqi Kurdistan and worked across the Middle East and further afield. I am a regular collaborator with Raw Music International, making short films about music in changing places. With RMI I've produced films from Iraq, Myanmar, Ukraine and Mongolia. My work has been published in the Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Neon Magazine, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Die Zeit and CNN, amongst others. My video work has appeared on NBC.com, Time.com, Al Jazeera America, CNN/Great Big Story.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
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• Video Editor - News
• Sound Mixer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
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I am an independent photographer and videomaker mainly focused on news coverage, reportage and documentary projects about social issues and climate change effects. Sometimes I still shoot architecture and events. Most of the time I'm active between Europe, Africa and the Middle East. . In 2019 was published my first photographic book from the reportage "No promised land", that shows for the first time the living conditions in the reception facilities for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Italy. In 2021, my project titled "Zaïm" was awarded second place at the Sony World Photography Awards. . I'm currently based in Beirut covering the conflict between Israel and Palestine from aspects involving Lebanon and Palestinians on this side. I remain always available to travel in case of need.

• HD Live Operator
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
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• Corporate Videographer
• Fashion Photographer
• Product Photographer
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Graduated with masters’ degrees in International Affairs (Sorbonne University, Paris) and in journalism (Lebanese University, Beirut), Delphine Darmency began to work as a newspaper journalist in 2010 in Lebanon. Doing research, finding sources, conducting interviews with ministers, activists or artists, and pulling together information to release news stories is her daily life. Her latest reports took her to Egypt, Iraq and Central Asia for several French media outlets, such as Slate, TV5 Monde, Muze, Snatch, Kaizen and Alternatives Internationales. In September 2016, she moved to New York City, enrolling in the one year Broadcast Journalism program at the New York Film Academy. She is actually creating her own video production company, "Beyond the Road Productions".

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I am a print and broadcast journalist with a special focus on human rights and development. I am a regular contributor to a variety of media outlets, including Al Jazeera, Inter-Press Service, Doha Centre for Media Freedom, Monocle 24 and VJ Movement. ?In the past six years, I have covered wide-ranging issues from Arab-Israeli politics to the UN Climate Conference (COP 15) and human rights/democratic reform in Burma. ?With living and work experience in eight countries across the globe, my vision as a journalist is to combine the fields of International Relations, Current Affairs and Media in producing timely and thematic stories with in-depth analysis.

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• Video Editor - News
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• Video Editor - Commercial

A dynamic and enthusiastic Broadcast Professional, Former News Presenter, Producer and Reporter, with a proven track record for handling live broadcasts and interviews, and native spoken proficiency in English and French. A well-traveled journalist with valuable international experience - 18 years in West Africa, and 15 years in the Middle East. Currently a radio broadcaster at Virgin Radio Stars in Lebanon.

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David Enders has been working as a reporter, producer and cameraman since 2003, when he decided it was a good idea to travel to Baghdad and start an English-language newspaper. David won a Polk Award for his reporting from Syria and has produced short documentaries for Al Jazeera's English's award-winning programs People and Power and Faultlines. Enders was most recently a correspondent for Vice News.

• Documentary DP
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• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - News
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• Sound Mixer
• Reporter / Journalist
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• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Field Producer
• Drone Operator

I'm a trilingual TV journalist and documentary film-maker with iver eight years of experience including four to five years of warzone reporting from Iraq and Lebanese-Syrian border areas. I am able to work in all of Iraq, Iran and Lebanon and have built a solid base of high profile contacts in all three countires. I have my own Media Production House based in Baghdad

• TV News Producer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Field Producer
• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Audio Storyteller
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• On-Air Reporter / Host
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• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary

Started a production company “BPro Production” which provides production facilities and technical support serving both local and international broadcasters. Executive producer and Director for more than 200 documentaries, episodes, and reports from different countries (Japan, Singapore,Turkey, Oman, China, Thailand, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Austria)

• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Drone Operator
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• Post-Production Manager
• Fixer
• Sound Mixer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
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• Senior Editor

Emma Paoli is a producer at AJ+ français. Before that, she worked many years as a journalist for Le Monde. She graduated from Columbia University and UCL, where she made a film about Liberland which was selected in many festivals including Kustendorf, ZagrebDox and Astra Film Festival.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Field Producer
• Reporter / Journalist
• TV News Producer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Post-Production Manager