Picoteam 

The Economist online offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science and technology.


The Economist

To inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time. Our Values 

With our partners, our coffee and our customers at our core, we live these values: Creating a culture of warmth and belonging, where everyone is welcome. Acting with courage, challenging the status quo and finding new ways to grow our company and each other. Being present, connecting with transparency, dignity and respect. Delivering our very best in all we do, holding ourselves accountable for results. We are performance driven, through the lens of humanity.

Starbucks Coffee Company

Welcome to Great Big Story, a digital video network dedicated to the untold, the overlooked and the flat-out amazing.  All of the stories we tell are meant to feed your curiosity and show you something you've never seen before.  

Great Big Story

Storyhunter Studios is the publisher account for Storyhunter staff at our headquarters in Brooklyn, New York.  We use this account for studio projects on behalf of clients.

Storyhunter Studios

Production company of award winning commercial director and filmmaker John Ryan Johnson.  Based in Brooklyn, NY.

JRJ Film

Documist is an independent production house based out of New York, Nairobi, and Toronto. We specialize in documentary and feature reportage, with an emphasis on strong cinematography. We're always looking for talented people to collaborate with. If you'd like to work together, give us a shout at info@documist.com

Documist

Guided by the belief that all lives have equal value, the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation works to reduce inequity across the globe. We’re impatient optimists committed to helping create a world where every person has the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life. This is a big ambition that we tackle in four different ways: to empower the poorest in society so they can transform their lives; to ensure that more children and young people survive and thrive, to combat infectious diseases, particularly those which affect the poor and to inspire people to take action to change the world. 
 
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann and co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.  


Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

TIME video covers breaking, national and international news; we produce short docs, features and reported videos. 

TIME Magazine

Based in Bethesda, Maryland, and with an office in Nairobi, Kenya, Burness has been providing public relations support to nonprofit organizations since 1986. In doing so, we take as a given that sound strategy and tactical successes such as media coverage, dynamic publications, web-based social media, and meetings with policymakers – though crucial – are ultimately only means to an end. Our goal, our end, mirroring that of the nonprofits we support, is effecting social change – making an impact.

Burness 

Huffington Post

AJ+ is a global news community for the connected generation. We highlight human struggles and achievements, empower impassioned voices, and challenge the status quo. It's is Al Jazeera's mobile app and social stream dedicated for the connected generation.

Our VJ are used to leverage original short and personal form of storytelling from the ground.

AJ+ VJ stories are not normal news. A straight-forward look at who, what, when, where doesn’t work for us. We are looking for stories that are made interesting by the unexpected angle, human side, or visually captivating. Ask yourself does this story move me or does it just inform me? 
 
Here are some aspects of what makes an AJ+ story:
Unique side angle on a major story. Also a story that connects two things not commonly associated with each other.
Pushback to conventional wisdom on how the mainstream media (including Al Jazeera) or governments frame an issue. 
Emotional or compassionate side of a story. Show specifically how people are directly affected by the issue (Emotions go beyond sadness can be awe, humor, anger, love, inspiration, etc…). 
Direct from the ground. Hear directly from people in the city/town/village where the bigger story is taking place.
 Incredible visual. Is there something we need to see (and hear) to believe? This is video, so let’s leverage those stories. It doesn’t have to be “hard news.”


Commissioned videos will appear at least one of AJ+'s language channels (English, Spanish, Arabic) and potentially on our partner's channels too.



 If you are producing a package for us, take a look at our "what works" video: https://vimeo.com/121171058 

 
Here is what we've recently used freelance VJ's through StoryHunter for: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSRIx29Ufd9C67ZRPmCBOldm0ZI-linGk

AJPlus

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Short docu-drama I shot, edited, and produced for the mobile health startup Mama Rescue based in Kasese, Western Uganda. 

Mama Rescue

A Day-in-Your Life on the Storyhunter Platform

Seeking Videographer for High Rise Office B-Roll for Storyhunter Explainer Video!

A collection of my best footage from the past year. 

2016 Visual Reel

Shot all the video for this short film on the Ghetto Classics orchestra in Nairobi's Korogocho slum.

Playing Through Poverty

Profile Interviews for Video Series (Nairobi, Kenya)

Directed, shot, and edited this short branded documentary for BioLite Energy. 

The Power of Home

United States of America

Connecticut

Bridgeport

North America

Video Editor - News

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Fixer

Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist

On-Air Reporter / Host

Reporter / Journalist

News Shooter / Video Journalist

Sound Mixer

Commercial DP

Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer

Drone Operator

360 News Video

Creative Director

Field Producer

TV News Producer

Production Company

Video Editor - Documentary

Video Editor - Commercial

Production Assistant

360 Commercial Video

360 Documentary Video

John Ryan Johnson is an award winning commercial director and filmmaker. JRJ's Nike spec, Buckets won the 2015 Young Director Award in Cannes for Best Test Commercial in North America and Silver at the W3 Awards. His NBA spec, Nine to Five, was a Finalist for the 2012 AICP Awards, the Porsche Awards in Germany, and a part of the SHOOT Online New Director’s Showcase. He was also named a Finalist for the 2013 Arri/Volker Bahnemann Cinematography Award. JRJ’s first feature documentary, Anatomy of an American Dream recently received the Alan Landsburg Documentary Post Production Award and was also a participant in the HP Emerging Filmmakers program at Sundance. JRJ is an Alumni of New York University’s Graduate Film program.

John J.

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I'm an independent director, cinematographer, and editor that's been dancing between documentary, reportage, and commercial work for the past five years. I'm based in Nairobi, Kenya, and direct/produce for Documist. I've focused a lot of my work on environmental issues, but am also very interested in human rights, investigative work, and arts &amp; culture. I'm fascinated by the personal motivations driving our lives, and work to build stories around people rather than events. 

I've worked with editorial clients including the New York Times, the Economist, the Guardian, HuffPo, and others. My commercial clients include the Gates Foundation, UNCDF, the WHO, and many more. 

Shooting on a Sony FS5 with a metabones full frame adapter (4k, 240 FPS slowmo, 10-bit 4:2:2 in 1080). Glidecam, slider, and tripod available for stabilized movement, portable battery powered light kit, Sennheiser ME66 shotgun + wireless lav for audio. 

You can see my work at www.alexpritz.com or www.documist.com

Alex P.

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