Tbilisi, Georgia
14 reviews$500 - $800 / Day
Freelance videographer, film maker and reporter with over a decade of experience in producing news articles, audio features, video reports and short-docs for clients that include news agencies, non-profits and private firms. Publishers include Al Jazeera, National Geographic, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, BBC, EurasiaNet.org, Great Big Story, CCTV News, USA Today, Global Post and more. My mini-documentary "A cashmere story" was selected for special screening at the UK Green Festival 2014. Currently based in Tbilisi, Georgia after four years in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
April • 2022
Pearly is a great storyteller, she has an eye for details. She was easy to communicate with and quick to solve the problems on the way. Her filming and editing skills are excellent, a great one-person team, which is rather useful in the world of observational documentaries. I look forward to working with Pearly on more stories in the future. - Zsuzsanna
July • 2020
It was a pleasure to work with Pearly. The video and interviews delivered were of an exceptional quality, despite working in distinctly challenging circumstances. Pearly was highly responsive and had great ideas. Highly recommended!
July • 2022
We love working with Pearly. She's a great visual storyteller and always has shown great commitment to all stories she's on. -Euna
The Russians first introduced ballet to Mongolia in the 1920s, soon after the country became communist. While the transition to democracy greatly decreased state sponsorship of the arts, the classical dance is still thriving. Al Jazeera’s Pearly Jacob reports from the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar.
Produced for VOA Office of Programming
He was a jovial painter from Virginia who traveled thousands of miles to Georgia in pursuit of polyphonic songs and the good life. But one day, a man on a tractor rolled up to his home and gave him a patch of land that changed his life. Follow his journey from artistic wanderer to winemaking entrepreneur. Journeying into the Womb of Wine makes its streaming debut on VOA+ on January 27, 2022.
Produced for VOA Office of Programming
Rezo Khojelani is a chain-smoking mountain man with a gruff demeanor that belies his artistic talent for restoring ancient frescoes in the medieval churches that dot his highland home of Svaneti in the Great Caucasus. As "Keeper of the Keys" for his clan's church, a position that has been passed down in his family since the 10th century, Rezo can only hope to give the keys to a worthy successor, when the time comes. For now, Rezo continues his work preserving frescoes and ancient traditions alike, trying to ensure they both endure.
Produced for Great Big Story
The Georgian National Ballet has everything—killer footwork, spectacular swordplay, and gravity-defying choreography that’ll knock your socks off. Get a lesson in decades of dance straight from the masters of movement. ~ I filmed all rehearsals and interviews and helped source performance footage.
Produced for BBC World Service
This was a social media video teaser for a audio feature on a couple's extraordinary efforts to overcome COVID-19 travel restrictions and disappearing flights to reunite with their newborn son who was born to a surrogate mother in Tbilisi, Georgia. The video had more that 430000 views the very first day it was posted on Facebook.
Produced for MAC Georgia (McLain Association for Children)
Anita is a 13 year old girl from Batumi who becomes a wheelchair user after a botched medical treatment. As she struggles to come to terms with new reality, an online introduction helps her finds friendship and inspiration in world champion wheelchair fencer and paralympic athlete, Irma Khetsuriani. #Wheelchair #Georgia #disability means #newabilities #paralympics #fencing
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