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Vincent D.

Kabul, Afghanistan

2 reviews

$600 - $800 / Day

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About Vincent

An award-winning filmmaker, Vincent Du has produced more than twenty documentaries for international broadcasters and organizations including Al Jazeera, BBC, NHK, Channel NewsAsia, World Health Organization, Tencent, iQiyi, and China Central Television. His recent works include “A Day in Wuhan,” which won in the category General Documentary at The Telly Awards 2021, and aired on Al Jazeera Arabic. His feature length documentary “Smog Town” (NFF+IBF scheme, IDFA Bertha Fund), premiered in 2019 as part of the First Appearance Competition during the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the world’s largest documentary film festival. It won best documentary awards at both the Millenium Documentary Film Festival in Belgium and DokuFest in Kosovo. His investigative documentary, “Smuggling for Survival,” aired on Channel NewsAsia and Al Jazeera English and won Best Current Affairs Programme or Series at the Asian Academy Creative Awards in 2019. Also in 2019, his short film “Fighting Against Air Pollution” won Best Short Documentary at the China Academy Awards for Documentary Films, the country’s top awards for the genre. Vincent Du is the founder of DuGood Productions. Between 2010 and 2012, he was awarded two distinguished scholarships, including a British government Chevening Scholarship, to complete two Master’s degrees, the first in journalism at the University of Hong Kong, and the second in screen documentary at Goldsmiths, University of London. Before entering the documentary filmmaking industry, Vincent worked as a photojournalist for local newspapers and Reuters for 7 years. He now teaches documentary production and film history at the Journalism School of China’s Tianjin Normal University. He is also a PhD candidate in Film Studies at Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media of the University of Westminster.

Top Services

  • Documentary DP

    1 review
  • Corporate Videographer

    1 review
  • Creative Director

Top Projects

  • The Pillars of a Great Power, Season three, Ep 4

    • Documentary DP
    • Drone Operator
    • Creative Director
    • Non-Fiction Film Director

    The eight-episode documentary The Pillars of a Great Power took more than one and a half years to showcase the great strides China has made in the equipment manufacturing industry.

  • Five to Nine trailer

    • Documentary DP
    • Creative Director

    5 to 9 comprises four short films that transpire across 5pm to 9am on the evening of the historic Brazil-Germany match at World Cup 2014, spanning intimate vignettes of unrequited love and final meetings.

  • China's Little Rock Star - Al Jazeera English

    • Documentary DP
    • Creative Director

    Drumming her way to fame at a renowned Chinese music school, Deqi tries to balance ambition with being a seven-year-old. The film was broadcast on Al Jazeera in July 2013.

  • China: For My Blue Brothers

    • Documentary DP

    Follow former Chinese journalist He Zhongzhou as he struggles to support migrant workers and protect their rights. The film was broadcast on Al Jazeera in Nov. 2014.

  • Wuhan’s Hidden Trauma: After the COVID lockdown

    • Documentary DP
    • Drone Operator
    • Production Company
    • Senior Producer / Project Manager
    • Non-Fiction Film Director
    • Executive Producer

    A Chinese filmmaker ventures into Wuhan and discovers unseen psychological trauma in the aftermath of the city’s lockdown.

Equipment

Video

  • 4K video camera
  • Multiple cameras
  • GoPro or equivalent
  • Drone

Audio

  • External recorder
  • Wireless lavalier mic
  • Shotgun mic

Miscellaneous

  • Lighting kit
  • Stabilizer
  • Sliders

All Services

Pre-Production

  • Creative Director
  • Executive Producer
  • Production Company
  • Senior Producer / Project Manager

Production Support

  • Non-Fiction Film Director
  • Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
  • Corporate Videographer
  • Documentary DP
  • Drone Operator

Post-Production

  • Video Editor - Commercial
  • Video Editor - Documentary
  • Video Editor - News

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