January • 2022
Wonderful. He was excellent. Easy to work with very skilled. Went above and beyond!
Miguel P.
Altamira, PA, Brazil
4 reviews$550 - $2500 / Day
About
Graduated in Biochemistry (Portugal), MA in Communication (UK), Miguel Pinheiro is an awarded #filmmaker, #photographer and #writer. His #Production Company is located at the Amazon Rainforest, in #Brazil, combining creative and managing skills, with inner knowledge of the stakeholders in the territory (#Fixer). Miguel's works - with a focus on environment, livelihoods, land conflicts, forest's economy and cultural diversity - has been published and broadcasted in several countries in Europe, Africa, and Brazil. As an expert creator of multimedia initiatives, Miguel’s finesse and creativity in using entertainment as a tool for social change is powerful. As a documentary photographer his work has been shown in solo and collective exhibitions, in Portugal and Brazil. Miguel has also played as a professional actor in TV, Theatre and Cinema, in five different languages.
Top Services
- Drone Operator
- 2 reviews
- Production Company
- 1 review
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- 1 review
Clients
Top Reviews
Top Projects
Produced for NowThis
Exploitation of Native Lands Could Drive Indigenous Language Extinct
Iawá comes from Kuruaya, an Indigenous group from the Amazon rainforest. She says her people were forced to move continuously because of the encroachment of non-Indigenous profiteers. Iawá worked for non-Indigenous people, moving from place to place to harvest rubber, nuts, and more from her native forest. The constant movement led to a scarcity of people speaking Kuruaya. Iawá is now the last person on the planet known to speak it. According to researcher Philip Fearnside, forest loss caused by large dam development projects and the lack of laws and regulations protecting Indigenous peoples makes them more vulnerable than other populations. Learn more: http://go.nowth.is/3auDzPh
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Non-Fiction Film Director
- Video Editor - Documentary
- Production Company
- Drone Operator
Produced for Mongabay
In Brazil’s Amazon, Quilombolas fight the erasure of their African heritage
We are all familiar with the horrors associated with the slave trade, but how much is still ignored about the remaining traditional communities of Afro-Americans in the world's greatest tropical rainforest? LINK for Full Article (ENG) - https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/in-brazils-amazon-quilombolas-fight-the-erasure-of-their-african-heritage/ (PT) - https://brasil.mongabay.com/2022/05/quilombolas-da-amazonia-lutam-para-manter-a-heranca-africana-em-meio-a-floresta/
- Documentary DP
- Non-Fiction Film Director
- Video Editor - Documentary
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
- Production Company
- Fixer
- Drone Operator
Produced for Mongabay
Dying Language: Belo Monte dam threatens indigenous lifestyles in Brazil
Iawá, also known as Odete Kuruaya, is one of the last fluent speakers of the Kuruaya language. Born in the early 1930s to a Kuruaya mother and a Xipaya father, Iawá and her family lived off the land, hunting and fishing, while cultivating a few crops such as cassava, corn, cotton and others, as she described in an interview in 2016. But a few years ago, the third-largest hydroelectric dam in the world, Belo Monte, was built a few miles from her territory. When the dam went into operation in 2016, it created a severe impact in the region. Read more: https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/land-and-language-indigenous-cultures-key-to-protecting-amazon-biodiversity/
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Documentary DP
- Non-Fiction Film Director
- Field Producer
- Video Editor - Documentary
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
- Drone Operator
Dona Maria - The Flower Picker
In Brazil, traditional communities defend their right to manage the meadows where they have lived for centuries from agriculture and the harvesting of flowers. In recent years, the creation of conservation parks has barred the access to the flowers in the region. A maroon community struggles and got the attention of the UN.
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Documentary DP
- Non-Fiction Film Director
- Creative Director
- Video Editor - Documentary
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
- Portrait Photographer
- Reporter / Journalist
- Production Company
24h de Maria
“AI MARIA” is the fourth project of the cycle INVISIBLE LANGUAGE, dedicated to the gathering the life stories of peripheral communities in Portuguese speaking countries. This street photo exhibition collected the portraits of women from invisible or marginalized communities in the city of Porto, Portugal.
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Non-Fiction Film Director
- Creative Director
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
- Production Company
Produced for Mongabay
A new generation of local cocoa producers in the Amazon
Cocoa plantations in the Brazilian state of Pará have helped to recover about 150,000 hectares (370,660 acres) of degraded land in the last 25 years. The Brazilian government has supported agroforestry within key commercial crops, such as cocoa, to fight rampant deforestation in the Amazon and offset carbon. Brazilian research shows, carbon markets could be an attractive opportunity for farmers in the Amazon... Read full story a
- Documentary DP
- Non-Fiction Film Director
- Video Editor - Documentary
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
- Production Company
- Fixer
- Drone Operator
Equipment
Video
- DSLR or equivalent
- GoPro or equivalent
- Drone
- 4K video camera
- Multiple cameras
Video
Audio
- External recorder
- Wireless lavalier mic
- Shotgun mic
Audio
Miscellaneous
- Lighting kit
Miscellaneous
All Services
Production Support
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Documentary DP
- Non-Fiction Film Director
- Field Producer
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
- Portrait Photographer
- Reporter / Journalist
- Audio Storyteller
- Corporate Videographer
- Drone Operator
- On-Camera Talent
Production Support
Post Production
- Video Editor - Documentary
Post Production
Miscellaneous
- Creative Director
- Production Company
- Translator
- Fixer
- Senior Producer / Project Manager
- Executive Producer
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