Discover Top Freelancers in Tauranga, New Zealand

Ana Soledad Ahumada studied Image and Sound desing at Buenos Aires University and Direction of Photography at SICA. She works as a freelance director, camera operator, editor and cinematographer for several production companies. She has directed many documentary short films for the Argentinean Agriculture Ministry across the country. In 2014 Soledad won the Witness contest for Latin-American projects which allowed her to direct her own documentary called “Eugenio`s Close up” for Al Jazeera International. The same year she started the project Perro Polar with his brother providing services such as filming, editing, animation,etc. Currently Soledad lives between Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) working on different type of productions and projects, open to travel behind new stories. Soledad has recently worked as Art Director in the web series Minga, which won the Biennal of young people Buenos Aires. She has taken part in many social and cultural projects. Since 2016 she attends regularly to the favelas observatory at Mare in Rio de Janeiro, to study and work on strategies regarding topics such as territory, innovation and information and communication technologies on slums.

• Documentary DP
• Production Company
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Creative Director
• Motion Graphics Designer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Corporate Videographer
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Fashion Photographer

DP / Videographer / Aerial Cinematographer / 360 VR shooter based in Auckland, New Zealand. I shoot: documentary, commercials, narrative and short news pieces using professional broadcast gear. Clients I have shot for globally include: WSJ, CNN, Adobe, Google, Rio Tinto, San Francisco & Symphony Orchestra. Currently I am principle DP for the NZ news media organisation FreeNZ On location my manner is professional, friendly and a quick thinker / problem solver. Important note to consider when hiring me: I am exempt, nor do I recognise the authority of: mask mandates / covid restrictions / vaccine passports / QR code scanning and I honour medical privacy. If we can work together like it's 2019, then we should have no problem moving forward.

• Documentary DP
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Video Editor - News
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Drone Operator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• VR / AR

Mark Boyd is a freelance journalist based in Auckland, New Zealand. He has extensive experience as a reporter, producer and newsroom manager in television in New Zealand and Australia. He has also worked in radio news in New Zealand, the UK and the United States, and has written text articles for publications around the world. He is available for news pieces in any medium, and live crosses and pre-recorded interviews, in-vision or audio, for television, radio and online. Mark is also an academic, with a PhD in Politics and International Relations, and is available for commentary on political and social issues on any topic in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific. His academic area of speciality is media and politics, and elections.

• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Fixer
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Reporter / Journalist
• Audio Storyteller

Based in Auckland New Zealand. An alumni of the European Documentary Campus Master School. OPC director, shooter & cutter, also experienced in running a crew, working with translators, self-producing etc. I like positive, solution-oriented, human-scale stories. Currently producing On Farm Story in collaboration with the NZ Farmer's Weekly, as well as commercial and documentary work.

• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Commercial DP
• Production Company
• Digital Content Creator
• Corporate Videographer

I'm a multimedia story teller: I write, shoot photos (mostly to support my other work) and produce, shoot and edit video. I work as a freelance journalist and communications consultant, and my work has appeared in Al Jazeera America, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, Foreign Affairs and the British Journal of Photography, among others. I recently left a full time position as Multimedia Editor and Producer for United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. I like telling the human side of stories, and am most interested in health and health care, social justice, human rights and humanitarian affairs. I am always interested in learning new beats, and am happy to talk about new ideas for stories.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Senior television journalist based in Auckland, New Zealand. I have worked for all three local networks, covering daily news and current affairs.

• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Field Producer
• Reporter / Journalist
• TV News Producer

I am French / Kiwi with ten years experience shooting documentaries and adverts in Auckland. I can direct, shoot, edit, grade, and own my gear (RED and FS7).

• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Corporate Videographer
• Fixer

• Production Company
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Drone Operator
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Post-Production Manager
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Colorist
• Field Producer
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Event Photographer
• HD Live Operator
• Sound Mixer
• Creative Director
• Gaffer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Full-Service Live Production
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer

• Video Editor - Commercial
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
• Video Editor - Documentary
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

• Digital Content Creator
• Illustrator

Sports journalist

• TV News Producer
• Reporter / Journalist

Sports Journalist/Presenter based in New Zealand

• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Field Producer
• Reporter / Journalist

Television, Radio and Online Sports Journalist

• Reporter / Journalist
• Fixer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist

I am an accredited Director of Photography, Cinematographer, Photographer, and Video Producer based in Auckland, New Zealand with more than 20 years of experience partnering with well-known brands, creative chiefs and advertising gurus from around the globe to create memorable documentary and photography content. Originally from the UK, I have worked extensively across SE Asia and Oceania advertising industry, covering all cinematography for master interviews, live-action, portraiture, still-life, food and factual documentaries, working with film and TV productions, agency creatives and NGOs making emotional food & people content through positivity, optimism & love. This has attracted interest from clients including the region's top advertising agencies and brands including Heineken Beer, GSK, Toyota, and IBM Global Services. My documentary films have been selected and showcased in esteemed festivals such as the British & Dutch Film Institutes, Cinecity, and Rokumentti Film Festivals. These include accolades from the Vienna Shorts and New Zealand International Film Awards, Gold merits at Cannes, Pencil from D&AD, London & New York, CCA, and Spikes Advertising Awards Shows. My photography has appeared in the International Photography Awards Book, Condé Nast Publications, UK Guardian Newspaper, 1 AM, New Musical Express, Louder Than War, I-D, Japan GQ, and Wire Magazines.

• Commercial DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Portrait Photographer
• Fixer
• Product Photographer
• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Production Company
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Copywriter
• Landscape Photographer
• Drone Operator
• Colorist
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Post-Production Manager

As a filmmaker, James Fink-Jensen has taken on every role in film production. Since early 2015, James has worked as a premier football game videographer for Eastern Suburbs AFC. He is their digital and social media assistant and on occasion, livestreams premier games to Facebook and YouTube. James also currently works for Magness Video, as a camera operator at the Auckland Trotting Club's harness races. For the majority of the time, his camera is fed into the live feed for television coverage. Similarly, from 2015 to 2017 he worked for Baseball New Zealand, as the recruitment videographer for players seeking overseas scholarships. In late 2019 until early 2020, James worked for Oceania Football Confederation and Auckland Cricket. He would operate a wide camera for livestreams. James has also taken up various freelance work for Pillars New Zealand, EXIT Films, the New Zealand International Film Festival, Shot Darts, the World School Sevens, Quivervision and Auckland Fringe Festival. The work for NZIFF in mid 2018 involved assisting with filming various directors. Likewise, for the Fringe Festival in early 2020, he filmed and edited artists’ interviews.

• Corporate Videographer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Creative Director
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Fixer

Charlotte is drawn to people with interesting life stories and those who challenge today’s societal conventions. Her work often embraces surrealism and, coming from a music video background, she attempts to push conventional storytelling boundaries in a visually striking and compelling way. Having worked as an editor for 14 years, storytelling is ingrained within her. This coupled with a strong visual style helps her craft stories that are poetic and emotionally driven. Charlotte has directed numerous award-winning music videos for artists including Kimbra, Aldous Harding, Benee, The DMA’s and Marlon Williams. In 2018 Charlotte directed ‘Give Kate A Voice’, a short film that commemorated 125 years of women’s suffrage in New Zealand and won multiple awards. Her short documentary ‘Nowhere To Be’, following cinematographers from around the world and their experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020, is currently being entered into festivals. In 2020, Charlotte's short film ‘OK Chlöe’ was acquired by The New Yorker Documentary, featured on The Guardian, Short of the Week and numerous festivals. Following on from the success of her short, Charlotte is currently in production on a follow-on feature documentary. She is also in development on two further feature documentaries, is completing a Sundance TV writing course alongside co-writer and producer Madeleine Askwith and has several short films, a feature film and an additional television series she is developing.

• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Production Company

Over the previous 15 years I’ve had the privilege of working on a huge variety of projects, from international advertising campaigns, online content, through to award winning feature films and TV series. When I reflect on this content I’ve created, what stands out as being memorable and aspirational, is the quality and substance of the ‘story’. So I take great care to find the sense and purpose of a story, the flow and rhythm of the narrative and their relationship with the visual choices in how they can hold a viewer's attention. While I have been involved with all types of content creation ranging from TVCs through to long form documentaries, I don’t have a preference, I just love the challenges of creating content that sticks with a viewer. Where I believe I am different compared with my fellow editors is that I like to spend time in the shadows between sound and vision. I believe that well crafted stories combined with carefully selected vision can take a story so far, but they can be taken further by pushing the interplay of the visuals within the sonic landscape. This subtle extra attention makes for a more complete viewer experience.

• Senior Editor
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Sound Designer

I am the Executive Producer of a full service content production company called Joy Inc based in Auckland, New Zealand. We are a group of experienced professionals specialising in human focussed content the creates connection and moves people to act. Our roots are in documentary storytelling, we have spent the last decade traveling the globe to tell the stories of the most vulnerable and downtrodden (whether that's in warzones, famine or prisons) and are passionate about connecting these stories to funding resources. We also apply our skills to our commercial craft - making branded content and TVCs for some of NZs best loved brands. We are a small team that will adapt our approach to any brief. We keep production nimble and have a huge local and global network of specialised crew we can draw on to support us as needed. We are interested in working with purpose driven brands, who have a similar ethos around positive change and connection. Please reach out - we'd love to talk.

• Production Company
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Executive Producer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Senior Editor
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Portrait Photographer
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Digital Content Creator
• Copywriter
• Drone Operator
• Field Producer
• Sound Designer

David K. Shields has been travelling the world for the past 25 years, the last 20 of which have been devoted to the pursuit of the best image. He is one of New Zealand’s most reknowned contemporary photographers, having worked for many of the top fashion magazines worldwide, including Vogue Homme International (Fr and Jp), Vogue Paris (Fr), Crash (Fr), Dazed and Confused (UK and Australia), Japanese GQ and Commons & Sense (Jp), German GQ and GQ Style, Russian Tatler, Italian Marie Claire, and Black Magazine (NZ). In addition to this his highly inspirational commercial work has kept him in demand across the globe. David has continued to nurture his passion for photography, expressing the artful vision and “eye for the moment” evident in his fashion imagery within an ever-growing body of personal work, particularly in portrait photography which is being further explored within an arts context of late. With a firm belief that the best will be achieved working in conjunction with others, including specialists in related fields, he is enjoying both the challenge and the interaction with friends and colleagues. The results these collaborations can achieve are made obvious by the palpable energy caught within these images. He considers a journey is best shared with others - it gives rise to questions, and better still illumination. “I look for Character and Energy that inspires me, the ability of a subject to show me that spontaneous moment no-one can predict, and to thrive within the freedom of boundaries this lifestyle allows me.”

• Portrait Photographer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Fashion Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director

Joseph Michael embodies a magical balance between fine artistry and forward-thinking technical knowledge. With a passion for the philosophical at his core, Michael seeks out the rare and sublime in the natural world and represents it with dynamic vision and cutting-edge technology. He has worked with revolutionary motion control techniques on Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit”, built 3D time-lapse rigs and created 360-degree cinema experiences, always pushing the boundaries of the technology available to him. Michael's work has been featured on 60 Minutes and National Geographic. His luminosity series has been shared by hundreds of thousands of people and issued as a limited edition stamp series by New Zealand post. Michael’s current project is an encompassing international installation which celebrates the profound, untouched beauty of Antarctica.

• Creative Director
• Commercial DP
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Audio Storyteller
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Company
• Drone Operator
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
• Reporter / Journalist
• Documentary DP