Alisa Mast

Researched and booked and subsequently interviewed over 150 of the world's top life science/zoology experts for animal specific segments for a new Nat Geo Wild series, season 1.

Outreach and expert casting for a new series dealing with human psychology using hidden cameras and famous psychological experiments as a basis.

Researched and booked experts to interview on topics of: chronic diseases, microbes, the mind/gut connection, native diets and urban farming. International locations.

Lead Researcher/Associate Producer for two upcoming 1 hour specials on the natural wonders of Alaska. Researched story ideas and contacted and arranged interviews with experts in the areas of: volcanoes, extreme weather/ice, geology, marine sciences, fire sciences, glaciers, ice diving and Alaskan Culture.

Researched content for psychology/human behavior themed series (competition show format) in development stage for major cable network. Reached out to professors in the fields of social psychology, evolutional anthropology, behaviorism and non-verbal communication experts in order to generate ideas and find interesting experts. Aired June 23rd, 2014 on NGC.

Researched story ideas on niche groups and sub-cultures, behaviors outside the norm. Conducted outreach/Casting via Skype and wrote 1 pagers/pitches, shooting treatments and shooting schedules. Handled all shoot logistics.

Research and story development for a documentary that included over 30 personal stories from 30 countries for documentary production company Luminous Content. Luminous Content creates award winning integrated branded content, corporate social responsibility projects, commercials, documentaries, television. and feature films.

-Researched stories on a wide range of sensitive/controversial topics in the areas of sexuality, fringe subcultures, remedies, spiritual beliefs and practices outside the mainstream, psychiatric/medical conditions and experimental treatments -Conducted outreach to recruit talent and experts -Wrote pitches, shooting briefs and handled shoot logistics

At talent's demand, field produced story on female body builders earning money to support their intensive training & competitions costs by offering fans a chance to experience their strength live--men pay to have what are called "muscle worship sessions" which include wrestling, showing of feats of strength (bench pressing the men.)

Working independently from L.A. with the rest of the team in Sydney, NSW, I researched niche topics and stories dealing with controversial and often sensitive subject matter, conducted outreach, recruited experts and talent, wrote 1 pagers and pitch documents as well as shooting treatments, secured locations, booked experts and dealt with all logistics to ready the field producer for each shoot.

Project for Swedish TV in collaboration with the UCLA Brain Institute for a documentary project dealing with mental health. The project aimed to profile patients undergoing new treatments for conditions such as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Sensory Integration Processing Disorder, Depressive Diseases and Addiction.

Created different physical (building) challenges for competition web series that ran for 3 months every summer from 2002 through 2005 called Iron Science Teacher in which 5 contestants, all science teachers are given science experiments to produce with limited resources and time to prove their hypothesis.

Educational science webisode that was shot half in the field and half in a live studio setting. Conducted interviews in the field with experts and switch directed during live segments.