Kingston, Jamaica
1 review$500 - $1000 / Day
TEDx speaker, award-winning filmmaker and internationally published multimedia journalist with solid editorial and photography background. Launched my career in 2006 as a freelance arts & culture writer and travel photographer; specialized in documentary filmmaking at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where I won the 2012 duPont/Judy F. Crichton Award for visual storytelling. My passions lie with the world's diverse cultures, their unique traditions and expressions, and the people who make them come alive. I aspire to do work that educates, empowers and inspires, breaking down cultural barriers and taboos, and cultivating the beauty of life and human connection. I love docs focusing on fascinating characters who provide a glimpse into the diversity of the human experience and raise questions about our society, attitudes, beliefs. Born in Bulgaria, I'm a citizen of the world fluent in four languages, based in Jamaica since 2015, where I also make fiction films, raise my son and teach visual storytelling at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.
A short film I made as a one-woman band on the Cabaret Laws that make dancing illegal in New York City since the 1920s and how they've affected club culture in the city. I am still looking for a home for this 20-minute documentary so any distribution or acquisition queries are welcome.
Produced for Vocativ
Video profile of a male stripper in New York City, I co-produced with Ines Novacic. Here's Vocativ's take on it: http://www.vocativ.com/video/underworld/sex/diary-male-stripper/
Video profile of Jazz - a charismatic, self-taught subway musician.
ADE is the leading professional conference for the electronic music industry. Covering the week-long event for cable channel Clubbing TV involved producing, shooting and editing this recap video.
In a poetic journey through memories, realities and universal truths seen through the eyes of inner-city youths, Children of the Incursion attempts to understand the rampant and increasing violence in Jamaica by revisiting the ‘Tivoli Incursion’ of 2010--when the Jamaican government carried out a controversial military operation in downtown Kingston--and its lasting effects on their lives.
Produced for International Monetary Fund
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