San Francisco, CA, USA
$600 - $1000 / Day
I’m a French-American journalist who films, produces, and edits documentaries. I'm a film fellow and producer at Still I Rise Films. I shoot and edit films for A Moment in Time Productions. Most recently, I directed and edited a short documentary that spans 10 years of San Francisco's "Flower Man." The film won the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Documentary at the United Nations Association Film Festival and the grand prize at the 2021 San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival. My current film, a short documentary about a community activist and how she stepped up to help the Latinx community when COVID-19 hit, premiered at the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival and is screening at the United Nations Association Film Festival, the San Francisco Latino Film Festival, and the Los Angeles Latinx Film Festival. I edited "We All Break," a feature documentary on Haitian Vodou and jazz funded by The Shifting Foundation and I filmed parts of a feature film that premiered in Berlin in the fall of 2021. A grantee of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, I produced and edited illustrated stories on the challenges low-income students have faced during the pandemic over the course of a yearlong project. A story in that project recently won the Online News Association General Excellence for Online Journalism Award. I started my career as a print journalist, writing and editing for magazines and news websites. I've reported for The Associated Press, I worked as news manager at Yahoo and I'm the co-author of "San Francisco: The Unknown City" (Arsenal Pulp Press), which was shortlisted for a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year award. My stories have been published in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times among other publications. I helped start and run Mission Local, an award-winning news website. I've filmed and edited video for television, news outlets as well as corporate clients. I hold a Master's degree from U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism with a focus on multimedia journalism. I’ve been a Carnegie-Knight News21 fellow and a U.C. Berkeley fellow. I've created and ran video workshops and taught video at U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism as well as high schools in the Bay Area. I've spoken at journalism events around the United States including the Online News Association.
Craftsman and Wolves Chef and Owner William Werner sits down with Mission Local to talk pastries, influences and the art of baking a good financier.
I shot and edited parts of a 45-minute silent film by Bulgarian photographer and filmmaker Mimi Chakarova. Chakarova’s work is a visual meditation on “what is both beautiful and ugly in our world today—issues of social justice, the environment and global warming, kindness and compassion, and the impact of technology on human relationships.”
A steady presence in San Francisco, Guy Clark has been selling flowers on the same corner for 40 years. When Clark is priced out of his neighborhood and evicted, he struggles to navigate the maze of waitlists for affordable housing. Filmed over a span of ten years, Guy Clark experiences a changing city and reflects on what matters most. This short documentary has won the 2021 Grand Jury Award for Best Short Documentary at the United Nations Association Film Festival and the Best of the Fest Award at the 2021 San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival.
When COVID hit, Tulier-Laiwa knew her neighborhood would be greatly affected. With the help of several childhood friends, she jumped into action to meet the needs of the Latino community and beyond. Her personal story isn't just what brought her here, it's what keeps her going. The film premiered at the 2022 San Francisco Documentary Festival, and is screening at the United Nations Association Film Festival, the San Francisco Latino Film Festival CINE+MAS, and the Los Angeles Latinx Film Festival.
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