Summary

I just finished working at the Academy Award winning production company Passion Pictures. I was an Associate Producer on a new international series for PBS, which took me to Gaza, Jordan, Israel and Brazil working with director Nicolas Brown.

Credits

4/18 – 12/18

Associate Producer TBA - Documentary Series (2018)

PBS — TV — Passion Pictures Details
4/18 – 12/18

• AP responsible for 3rd episode on the global water crisis • Researched and supported Director, Nicolas Brown, with the editorial of final episode • Set up shoots and assisted on location in Gaza, Israel, Jordan, Brazil • Including writing call sheets & risk assessments • Supported setting up shoots in US, DRC, Germany • 2-Day Hostile Environment Training, 1-Day First Aid and Flood Training • Helped Line Producer with budgets for the shoots I set up • Got access to enter and film in Gaza • Got access to enter and film in UNHCR Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan (largest in the Middle East) • Met with top Brazilian officials in Brasilia to negotiate access and embed our crew into their military missions protecting the Amazon rainforest from illegal deforestation

9/16 – 3/18

Researcher

Staff Position — Rogan Productions Details
9/16 – 3/18

• Wrote and designed treatments as well as produced taster films for new factual programs that were submitted for consideration by the BBC, Channel 4 and Netflix • Assistant-produced shoots in London (The Refugee Diaries) and Scotland (Brand films for The Balvenie Whisky) • Fact-checked and researched highly sensitive material • Negotiated and managed access with both board members of multinationals as well as highly vulnerable contributors • Researched and negotiated the purchase of archive material from the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks • Documentaries: The Confession, Living The War On Terror (BBC Storyville), One Night in 2012 (BBC One), The Refugee Diaries (BBC Three), Waiting For Invasion (Al Jazeera), Life At 100 (BBC Panorama)

Recos

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Education

Class of '17

Université de Saint-Louis

Master's Degree in Human Rights Law
Class of '16

Brussels School of Journalism

Master's Degree in International Journalism
Class of '14

Brussels School of Journalism

Bachelor's Degree in Social Communications

Skills

  • German
  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Portuguese
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe InDesign
  • hostile environment training
  • Editing with Adobe Premiere
  • First Aid Training
  • Clean Driver's License
  • Filming with Canon and Panasonic Cameras