* Award-winning
special reports, current affairs and documentaries producer/director: stories
broadcast on CNN, BBC, APTN, Discovery, Italian, Swiss, Spanish,
Brazilian and Australian TVs.
* Extensive field work under difficult conditions: in the
jungle, deserts, conflict zones.
* Technical knowledge: camera operation (XDCAM, Betacam,
HDV), non-linear editing
(Final Cut Pro, Premiere), tapeless server-based workflow.
* Ability to research stories and write scripts. Skilled
Internet searcher.
* Ample experience in setting up shoots in remote, unfriendly
locations.
* Management experience: communications strategy, budgets,
implementation of new products and work flow structure, team
motivation, training, gender mainstreaming.
* Strong international multicultural experience: traveled
and worked in five continents.
Location shooting in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Indonesia,
India, Pakistan, Nepal, Thailand, Morocco, Israel, USA, Mexico,
Colombia, Uruguay, Brazil, the Amazon, England, France, Denmark,
Spain, Australia, East Timor, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Singapore,
China, Japan, Tunisia, Mauritania, Iceland, Qatar, Iraq.
Professional Experience:
2007:
- Producer of “Dishonorable Killings”,
an investigative documentary on honor killings of women in Kurdish
communities in South-East Turkey.
- Producer of “Waves of Hope”, a
film for UNDP on successful community based post-tsunami recovery
projects in India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand and Indonesia.
- Director/writer of “Solidarity”, a
special report distributed worldwide through APTN on the recovery
of Nias, Indonesia, after an 8.7 magnitude earthquake.
- Television producer for Democracy Now!,
a daily television current affairs program fed from New York
to over 500 stations throughout the country.
2006:
- Director of “Fatima”, a
feature-length dramatic film shot in Baghdad featuring Iraqi
and Palestinian cast. More information on the website www.fatimathefilm.com
- Senior Public Information officer for the United Nations
Development Programme in Indonesia, in the tsunami recovery area
(Banda Aceh). Supervision of web, multimedia, radio and
outreach projects. Executive producer and writer of “Ketahanan” (Resilience),
a documentary on post-tsunami reconstruction.
2000-2005:
- Producer of current affairs reports broadcast on CNN,
the BBC and APTN, including the award-winning "Behind
the Veil" on women's resistance against fundamentalism
in Afghanistan; child soldiers in Colombia; “Kbiit” (Courage)
on the re-building of East Timor after the burnings. Senior
producer for the United Nations television.
- Producer of documentaries, including "Women
of the Sand" (permanent collection of the Museum
of Modern Art, N.Y.), on Saharan nomads, "The Sisters
of Ladakh" (WorldlinkTV) on Himalayan Buddhist
nuns and "Destiny" (Journeyman Pictures,
U.K.), on Spanish contemporary gypsies facing the challenges
of globalization.
- Team management and multimedia project coordination experience
as Head of Public Information for the United Nations in post-conflict
societies. Supervision of a TV station, as well as radio,
print and web projects.
1998-2000: Special factual projects
director for TV Cultura, the largest public television station
in Latin America. Directed “Going Back Home”,
a documentary on street children that won the station a special
international Emmy award, as well as reports on hip hop and segments
on elderly and slave labor broadcast on BBC, in the “Life” and “Human
Rights, Human Wrongs” series.
1994-1998: Senior investigative
reporter for Brazilian commercial network television (SBT and
Bandeirantes), working in weekly shows with an audience of thirty
million viewers. Subjects included child labor, toxic waste
and the Zapatistas. Freelance producer of stories for the
Discovery Channel and Australian television (ABC).
1990-1994: Producer for morning
news program at Bandeirantes network. Satellite feeds,
re-editing of packages, field producing, writer of news stories,
participation in editorial meetings.
1988-89: Production of segments
for CNN World Report through UNTV. Packaging of Gulf War
feeds and coordination of live studio debates.
1985-87: New York correspondent
for TV Gazeta (Brazil), covering art and lifestyle subjects.
Production of "Rã'ã",
a documentary on Amazon Indians included in the collection of
the Museum of the American Indian (N.Y.)
Education:
* Film directing diploma from the New York Film Academy
(New York, 1999).
* Studied at the Global Village documentary center (New
York, 1985).
* Ph.D. in Economics, with honors – New School for
Social Research (New York, 1983).
* M.A. in History- Columbia University (New York, 1979).
Graduate school fellowship.
* B.A., with honors – University of São Paulo
Brazil, 1977).
* Languages: fluent in English and Portuguese, basic understanding
of Spanish and French.
