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STUDIES:                 Bilingual: English/French, some Spanish spoken.

1988-1990                            New York University, NY. BA in Film and Television.

1985-1987                            Bard College, NY. Liberal Arts.

1979-1983                            Brock Wood Park,  England. High School Degree.

                               

Director of Photography:

VIDEO

Documentary/ Editorial

1994-2005           

Duart Pruductions  "En Route To Baghdad Feature documentary on the life and work of Sergio Viera De Melo Special UN envoy to Iraq

Who Died in the attack on the UN headquarters in Bagdad that killed Sergio along with 17 other people.in August 2003.

We Follow Sergio's History  across 4 continents and more than half a dozen countries including Mozambique, Cambodia, and East Timor. 

The film Was In the Tribrca Film Fetival,  New York, Festival International du Film des droits de l'homme, Paris, France,

Human Right's Film Festival, Geneva, Switzerland, Miami International Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival,

International Film Festival Amsterdam

 

 

Arte ;  Brook On Brook” 90min. Feature documentary on Peter Brook by Simon Brook exploring the life and work of his father. 

Special Nomination at the PIPA festival. 

 

National Geographic “the Point” Series on West Point Following the rigorous training American’s future Army officers go through.

 

MSNBCLock Up, Inside Riekers Island” 52min documentary of the inner workings of the largest correctional facility in the US.         

 

Bravo Canada "Woman in Clasical Musique" 13 Half hour episodes on great women in casical musique, Emmanuelle HAim, Magdalena Kozena, Lara St John...

PBS The Merow Report” “PS 25” an inside look at PS 25 in Bedford Stuyvesant, one of the toughest neighborhoods in New York City.

 

Atlantic TV I have been working with Atlantic TV since it's inception and I have had the opportunity to work with many of their british clients: Grenada ”Tonight With Trevor McDonald”

“Blind Date UK” W/ Tara Parma Tomkinson ,Disney UK 2002 Chrismas  Special, ABC Australia int. with Scott Ritter,

 

Paradoxal Has given me the opportunity to work with a wide range of French production: Arte, TF1, France 2. France 3. TV5

 

Discovery Profile on Ed Bradley, ABC 20/20, Good Morning America, PBS “MacNiel Leher News Hour”, NBC “Date Line”, Court TV “Forensic Files”, CBS “60 Minutes II”,

France 2 “Envoyer Special”, “American Medical Journal” with Morley Safer

                                                                                                                               

News

Reuters Television international in New York. Over the last 9 years I have developed a strong freelance relationship with the grate staff at the Reuters TV office and studios in New York.

I have  the opportunity to collaborate in the wide range of services they offer their clients:  News coverage of current events such as 9-11, UN General Assembly, WTO, electoral campaign,

editing of packages with clientsin forein language like Zulu or Arrabic, live on location transmitions, lighting director for live studio shows and satellite media tours, .Interviews With celebrities like

Bill Gates, Bono, Kofi Annan.

The following are some of the clients I have work with through Reuters:    BBC world financial report in NYC, MBC Middle Eastern Broadcast, Int. W/ Prince Fayed of Saudi Arabia,

 Hanz Blix Live studio with Iraq embasador to the UN on the first day of the war on Iraq. SABC South Affrican Broadcast,  Coverage of Nelson Mandela, and President Mbeki’s visit after 911.

 Meating With G.W.Bush. El Jazira, Kuwait TV, TBS Tokyo Broadcast System, TV Tokyo, Dou Dar Shan Indian TV, Now TV, TV Portugal, Chili 13, Georgian TV, Antenna Greece,

Sky TV.

 

 

CAPA French press agency, “Temps Present”, APTN international news agency,Roving Report”, BBC world service in NYC, , ITN Sports world cup, ITN/GM TV int. W/ Barry menalow,

 Lisa Minelli. Mariah Carey, CBS news, Sunday Morning, Early Show. Channel 7 Australia, int. w/ Hans Blix E! “Celebrity Adventures, E! Style, E! news,     

FLASH French-Canadian show, Tec TV, ZDF German TV in NYC, BET “American Black Forum”, “Celebrity Life style” Fox news, Crew Connection

                        TF1 “Star Academie” Uosin come to New York to meet Jenifer Lopez  In W Celine Dion.France 2 in Turkey, Armenia and Georgia.  Globo International Brazilian TV, Reportage,  Millennium,

                        Sin Frontera, Int. W/ Jesse Norman,  Lory Anderson, Pele.                                                                   

 

FILM

          2003             “The magazine” 12 minutes narrative comedie directed Lauren Quernac.

          2000             “Player Hater” feature documentary on rap artist Half –A-Mill directed by Maggie Hadleigh- West the director of “War Zone”

          2000             “Drinking Game” 120 minutes independent feature Mini DV directed by Murphy Giglioty

          1999             “Crack Head”  120 minutes independent feature, 16mm color film, directed by Robin K. Miler.

1989-1999              “El Souris”  9 minutes, fiction, 16mm color film, directed by Simon Brook.

                                “Minus one” 13 minutes, fiction, 16mm color film, directed by Simon Brook.

                                “Westies” 42 minutes, fiction, 16mm color film, directed by Sean McGowen.

                                “Eugene & Mo” 14 minutes, fiction, 16mm color film, directed by Daren Bobley.

                                “Wrath” 22 minutes, fiction, 16mm black & white directed by Lisa Raven.

                                “Dream For Sale” 15 minutes, fiction, 16mm black & white, directed by J.C. Barret.

 

From 1991 to 1995 I worked at Protecrea TF1 in the fiction department, as a post productions supervisor and in house production coordinator.   I supervised all aspects of the postproduction, including such responsibilities as the timing of final prints and final film to tape transfers. Protecrea, a Paris based company, produces 10  90-minute TV movies a year.  Shot on Super 16mm.   “Commissaire Moulin” and  “Rocca” are among the popular TV series produced by Protecrea.                                             

 

Photographer:

2003            “LA COMIDA DEL BARIO” Cook Book By Aaron Sanchez Photos By Emmanuel Bastien publishe by Randon House,Potter Due May5, 2003

1995-2001             Commercial photos for Kratz & Jensen Inc.                         Commercial photo for Peter Rabbit

      Commercial photos for Omnipoint                                             Citibank in South East Asia

      Commercial photo for Lobsens Stevens                 New York Philharmonic orchestra asian tour        

      Zarela’s restaurant for the magazine “New York”      Photo documentary on South India

      Posters for the Rockefeller Center                                    Photo documentary on Xochimilco

      Children clothes catalogue for Earth Wise                      Photo documentary on Oaxaca

                              Architectural photography for L. Marek Architect  

                              Architectural photography for R. Moon Associates Architects