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Production projects website: www.mightysmallfilms.com

Email: msf(at)mightysmallfilms.com Studio line: 510-704-0152

Freelance camera, editing and digital film production for : independent film, documentaries, music videos, ENG, training/industrial films, as well as Voice Over services, DVD authoring, casting assistance, basic lighting, research, scripting, music composing or procuring, directing, consulting, and event coordination.

Specialties: Live concerts (single & multi-camera); difficult shooting environments; guerrilla style street shooting (indie film, ENG, doc); blue & green screen; studio or location.

As Producer-Director-DP- Editor-DVD/Post Production: "The Mafia Principle of Global Hegemony: The Middle East, Empire and Activism" lecture by Noam Chomsky- Paramount Theater, Oakland, CA October 3, 2009, plus Larry Bensky in Conversation with Noam Chomsky at the Commonwealth Club, SF, October 8, 2009," DVD in co-production with PM Press; "Theory & Practice: Conversations with Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky," filmed November 2009 in Boston, MA, DVD in co-production with PM Press. "Pico" comedy-satire webisode series (ongoing.) "I-5: A Novel of Crime, Transport & Sex" scene film adaption for book marketing. "Potrero Post- Creating Film Sound" segment for Sidewalks TV pilot; "Courageous Conversations series: Huck Finn in the Classroom Pts 1 - 4 (Head-Royce School, co-produced with Willie Adams); "Completing The Thought" 2002, 6 min experimental film (also casting, script.) "Do You Think" (4 min educational short); "The Mourning Tango" (art film short); "Reaching For The Root-The Healthy Babies Project Story" (2002, 35 min educational documentary broadcast); River Breeze, 2000 30 sec ad spot; Harold Murphree Designs 2000, 30 sec ad spot; Bay Area Women Against Rape- 2001 30 sec PSA (in English, Spanish & Arabic); Healthy Babies Project- 2002, 30 sec PSA; "Successful Sex with Dr. Sonjia Kenya" (2006, four 4 min segments). Other PSA's: Montclair Village Jazz & Wine Festival '06. '07, 08; Laurel World Music Festival '07; 2nd Annual Montclair Pet Adopt-A-Thon, "Perfectly Normal" for Solutions4Community; and many others.

As hired Director of Photography/First camera: "Sewere Galabe" (English title: "Invisible Rider") Feature, international release, 2 hrs, color, 2008, in Amharic with English subtitles Dir: Tesfaye Sima; "Castigo" (2005, 20 min short; Dir: skgunn); "Edgewise" 2009, Dir/Producer/Editor: Steve Shlisky, a short adaptation for book marketing from the novel "Edgewise" by Jan Stites.

Live Music Performances as DP: Andre Nickatina live at The Catalyst-Santa Cruz March/June '07 (DP-multicam shoot plus editing & DVD authoring). The Donnas, and Hanson performimg live (for Snocap web promos. Also edited, formatted for web.) Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin's "Oda Oak Oracle" (Dir: Aika Swai) @ Sonoma State University, live musical theater (multi-camera).

Dirkfest (DP-multi-camera) June 7-8, 2007 San Franciscio @ Great American Music Hall & Slims (Avengers, Mutants, The Lewd, Pearl Harbor & The Explosions, The Contractions, Toiling Midgets, No Alternative, White Trash Debutantes, Sea Hags, Symptoms, Dana Albert, Ron Jones, Rubber City Rebels. Live acts covered at various theaters and outdoor festivals (Comcast Art & Soul Festival @ Live 105, , KBLX, Latin, Blues & Jazz stages; other concert & club events): Lovemakers, Silversun Pickups, Lost Prophets, Honeycut, Plain White T's; Lyrics Born, New Found Glory, Against Me, 415-Eric Martin, Terrence Brewer, Denise Perrier, Jeffery Osbourne, Quanti Bomani, Wadi Gad, Sila & The Afro-Funk Explosion, Ray Obeda, Blame Sally, Montclair Women's Jazz Band, Native Elements, Linda Tillery, Vicki Randle, Maria Muldaur, Binky, Kalimba Band, African Hi-Life Band, Placenta, "Juana" (opera); Binky; Montclair Village Jazz & Wine Festival; Laurel World Music Festival; Nuccia Focile- soprano & Paul Charles Clarke- tenor for Cal Performances, Robert Cole, conductor. Pope Flynn West African dance exhibition St. Mary's College, Moraga.

As hired camera: Behind the scenes/making of "The Harimaya Bridge" (SF locations, feature, Spring 2010 release) Dir: Aaron Woolfolk, Producers: ElevenArts, Danny Glover, et al; For Chamba Mediaworks Inc (NY, LA) Dir/Producer St. Clair Bourne: 5 hour Bobby Seales interview, Black Panthers 40th Anniversary; "Perfectly Normal" 2009, 13 min documentary for Solutions4Community; Rebecca Kaplan for Oakland City Council ad '08. Amanda Williams documentary (in production, Roy Clovis, N.Y., Dir/Prod.); Laurel Merchants Assn promo; Montclair Jazz & Wine Festival promo; "Rebecca Kaplan for AC Transit Board President" ad. "Black Rainbows: The Colors of African American Girls" (also edited, Marie A. Celestin-producer); "Designing Intervention Methods For Young Children With Vision Impairment" (2003, SFSU- educational training film, also edited); California Nurses Assn staffing limits ad("Thanks Governor...Not!" (also wrote, cast and edited); L.A. Film Fest-FestTV (filmmaker interviews); for Tracy Baim: Chicago Gay History Project, Liberty Fitness Centers promo; "Wayne Spewton" (comedy); "Djugman" music video Fely Tchaco. Good Vibrations, Inc interviews with comedian Margaret Cho. Google National Sales Meeting- Goodby's presentation. Stan Slap (www.SlapWorld.com) corporate consulting and training. Any many others.

Music Videos as camera, editor, DVD, broadcast and web versions:

"N Yo Eyes;" "Purrfect Storm;" (Andre Nickatina); "Thornes & Crowns- Sicilian Breeze/MIA" (The Jacka); "The Murder of Otis Stone" (Willie Adams); "Girl Next Door Superstars 1-4 full length DVD's;"The Kinsey Sicks TV-Land promo."

Additional Camera work:
Los Cenzontles Mexican Art Center (traditional dances; live performances); "The Gay" (short film, Dir: Ralph Dickinson); "Made in San Francisco" SF Fashion Week reality TV for broadcast and D1 Athlete for Nathan Friedkin Productions. "Film Trip" TV pilot; "A Sound Education" ad campaign (also wrote the spots) and "Swami Beyondananda for President" for APG Media: Mark Spencer (historic Filoli House Tours DVD); live sports (basketball, football); For Yoga Kula: Carlos Pomeda and Douglas Brookes, 2008 lectures and DVD's, Anusara Yoga doc (Prod: Yoga Kula); Scott's spots 2009 for Plum Productions (Chicago.) 4th Annual Homohop Festival

As hired Editor only:
"Ugly Money 2: Love It and Count It" (Also color corrected original footage. Dir/DP: Gino Carnell, feature 2009 DVD release); "Beyond 12" and "The Struggle Not Over: Women of South Africa Fight Back" (both with dir: Dee Mosbacher, Woman Vision, Inc, in English and Zulu, also color corrected footage.)

Further Production Credits:
"The Road to Change: A Film on Female Genital Mutilation" 1998, Dir/DP Harrikrisna Anenden for World Health Organization; Our Stripe In The Rainbow (Pittsburg Community Access TV); Put The Shoe On The Other Foot And Walk A Mile In It (2000, multimedia, Midtown Arts Center, St. Louis, MO.)

Scoring/Music Supervision/Loop Mix/SFX Credits:
"Reaching For The Root: The Healthy Babies Project Story" (original score, plus synch rights procurement); "Castigo" (original scoring, plus music loops/effects mixing); "The Gay" (original music); "Ginger Snaps" (original music, Dir: Grace Wolcott); "Andu in America" (original music, Dir: David Asmamaw); "Beyond 12" (music supervision/mix); "The Struggle Not Over: South African Women Fight Back)" (music supervision/mix); "Completing The Thought" (original music, SFX); "Courageous Conversations: Huck Finn in the Classroom Pt 1 & 2."