About
Creative Director at Agência Vagalume
Jessé Giotti
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Professional Experience
The New York Times
- Role: Freelance Editor
- Duration: Seven months
- Details: Contributed to Opinion videos and Op-docs.
MOV (UOL's Audiovisual Production)
- Role: Senior Producer, Special Reports and Mini-documentaries
- Duration: 2019 - 2020
Revista Trip
- Role: Video Department Editor
- Duration: 2016 - 2017
- Achievements: Responsible for Trip TV on YouTube; developed content for other social media; participated in event coverage like Casa TPM and Trip Transformadores. Increased subscriber count significantly.
Folha de S. Paulo (TV Folha)
- Role: Videomaker
- Duration: 2015; Freelance in 2017
- Projects: Edited mini-documentaries on occupied schools and Brazilian army's withdrawal from Haiti.
Diário Catarinense
- Role:Photojournalist and Video Production Lead
- Duration: 2006 - 2014
- Achievements: Established the newspaper's video department; trained reporters for video production using smartphones.
Freelance Work
- Clients: BBC Brasil, History Channel, NYTimes
Branded Content Projects
- Clients: Santander, Unilever, Natura, Boticário, Coca-Cola
Filmography
- "Making Of" (2009): Short fictional film - Director of Photography. Official Selection at FAM; Archived at MIS/SC.
- "O lorde do samba" (2014): Short documentary - Photographer. Production by Coruja Filmes (in finalization).
Independent Documentary Projects
- “Sem direitos": Life of an illegal immigrant in Trump's America (selected by Op-Docs editor Andrew Blackwell for DocSP 2018). [Teaser link](https://vimeo.com/296481805) (Password: sem diretos 2).
“Que chance você tem?": Story of a Haitian actor aspirant. [Photography link](https://medium.com/@jessgiotti/que-chance-voc%C3%AA-tem-196cf0bd4ef8).
Feature Film Project
- "Libelu gritou primeiro: abaixo a ditadura!"** Story of the Trotskyist student movement Libelu. [Film note](https://blogs.oglobo.globo.com/lauro-jardim/post/libelu-em-que-militaram-palocci-e-reinaldo-azevedo-tera-filme.html).
Essays
- Há 15 anos minha família decidiu viver ilegalmente nos Estados Unidos. Por quê? [Link to the essay](https://cargocollective.com/jessegiotti/Texto)
Awards
- Esso (Photography) - Honorable Mention - 2010
- Diário Catarinense (Multimedia) - Professional of the Year - 2013
- Massey Ferguson (Multimedia) - 1st Place - 2014
- Sebrae Nacional (Web Journalism) - 1st Place - 2014
- CNI Journalism - 1st Place - 2014
- Editora Trip - Outstanding Contributor - 2017
- Global Shorts Docs - Shortlist - 2019
Languages
- English: Fluent
- Spanish: Intermediate
Education & Training
- Motion Design Specialization, Ebac (British School of Creative Arts)
- Virtual Reality Narratives, The School of The New York Times
- International Ethnographic and Documentary Film, Open City Documentary
- Modern Art History, São Paulo Museum of Modern Art
- Neuroscience and Creativity, São Paulo School of Fine Arts
- Visual Narratives, Media Storm (New York)
- Screenwriting with Miguel Machalski
- Editing with Daniel Rezende
- Rough Cut Lab, DocSP 2016 with Karen Harley
- Harun Farocki's Artistry
- Hybrid Cinema and Ethnography with Larissa Figueiredo
- Photographic Curation and Narratives with Claudi Carreras
- Subversive Narratives with Lucia Colin
- Cinematography with Lauro Escorel and Carlos Ebert
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