May • 2016
Sonia was fantastic to work with from beginning to end as a videographer/camera op and on-site field producer (all in one!) for a new HuffPost series. Sonia will definitely be a go-to again -- highly professional and awesome!
Sonia N.
Los Angeles, CA, USA
2 reviewsAbout
I'm a Southern California-based video journalist who produces, shoots, and edits stories for BBC News, PRI's The World, The New York Times, TIME, PBS, and others. My video stories have taken me around the world, and I've worked extensively across Asia. I've produced and filmed video stories about camel traders in India, cat cafes in Japan, and a child goddess in Nepal. I previously worked as a video journalist for NBC News in New York City. It was there that I found my quirkiest, and most fun video story ever: a circus sideshow school in Coney Island (I learned fire-breathing isn't as hard as it looks!) I studied journalism and documentary filmmaking at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Top Services
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- 2 reviews
- Documentary DP
- Video Editor - Documentary
Clients
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Top Projects
PRI's The World - Climate Change on the Navajo Nation
Navajo women struggle to preserve traditions as climate change intensifies. The Navajo Nation is the largest Native American tribe in the U.S. and spans three states, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. This region is facing heat waves and severe drought due to climate change, and many residents already live without electricity and running water, making the situation even more harsh.
- Documentary DP
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Reporter / Journalist
- Video Editor - Documentary
5.0 Produced for Huffington Post
Huffington Post - Talk Nerdy to Me
In this episode of The Huffington Post’s “Talk Nerdy to Me,” Caltech physics professor Rana Adhikari and host Karah Preiss explain how gravitational waves could one day help us hear the sounds of the Big Bang. I filmed the interview with the Caltech professor and b-roll in the lab.
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
5.0 Produced for Thrillist
Thrillist - These Churro-like Cake Cones are Stuffed with Ice Cream
House of Chimney Cakes in Anaheim, California is a desert shop that serves ice cream in enormous chimney cake cones - a traditional Hungarian pastry that falls somewhere between a churro and a donut.
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
New York Times - Rags to Riches
Indian entrepreneur Ashok Khade made a remarkable journey from the son of an illiterate cobbler to the wealthy founder of a successful engineering company in Mumbai.
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
PRI's The World - Escaping Extremism: One Woman’s Story
Yasmin Mulbocus is a former member and recruiter for a radical Islamic group in the UK. She now prevents young Muslim women from joining extremist networks such as ISIS.
- Documentary DP
BBC News and PRI's The World - Seven months pregnant and working in the fields
Januka Rasaeli is seven months pregnant and spends much of her day toiling in the fields. She lives in a rural village in Nepal, where women are expected to perform strenuous chores all day long. She worries her manual work may put her baby at risk.
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
Equipment
Video
- Full HD video camera
Video
Audio
- Wireless lavalier mic
- Shotgun mic
Audio
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Production Support
- Documentary DP
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
- Reporter / Journalist
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Post Production
- Sound Mixer
- Video Editor - News
- Video Editor - Documentary
- Video Editor - Commercial
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