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KCETLinkProducer
Nov. 2018 - Feb. 2019Greater Los Angeles AreaI worked as a producer on season 9 of Socal Connected, KCET’s weekly award-winning news documentary series, presenting a mix of investigative reporting and richly textured narratives in a thoughtful and compelling way. "Socal Connected" is the winner of nearly every major local and national journalism award, including a Walter Cronkite Award, a George Foster Peabody Award, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia silver batons, and 27 regional Emmy awards. Linked below is the half-hour I produced.
AJ+Producer, Cinematographer
Oct. 2016 - Oct. 2017Brooklyn, NYIn 2017, I worked with AJ+, producing serial documentary work for the company's longform unit. I produced a half hour about gun violence in Chicago for their flagship series, "Guns in America," which helped the team win an SPJ award for excellence in explanatory video. I also covered the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, producing a three-part series with correspondent Ahmed Shihab-Eldin.
Self-employedCinematographer
May. 2016Brooklyn, NYEric Arthur Fernandez is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer who specializes in documentary and non-fiction storytelling. He has built his career working primarily on social issue-related films and television, and is known for capturing cinematic images in fluid and difficult situations. He excels both at cinema-verité scene work as well as in more controlled shooting environments, with nimble lighting techniques and small crews. He works in both camera department and producing roles for documentary features and series, and does advocacy work in the non-profit, environmental, and criminal justice spaces, using his media skills to support climate action, hold police accountable, and help keep people out of prison. He is currently participating in a Sundance Institute workshop for his first narrative film project, tentatively titled When We Rest Alone. He lives in Brooklyn with his cat and enjoys surfing, walking in Prospect Park, and drinking wine.
VICE NewsAssociate Producer & Cinematographer
Aug. 2013 - May. 2016Brooklyn, NY● Worked for VICE News since the channel’s inception, producing and contributing to a number of domestic and international stories.
● Responsibilities included field producing and shooting original content in the field, developing stories, monitoring news cycle, acquiring and licensing archival and supplementary materials, fact checking, and reporting at all stages of production.
● Served as the lead producer and camera person on “Institutionalized: Mental Health Behind Bars.” which has received almost a million views on YouTube and was met with praise from the criminal justice reform community. ● Worked as a Producer/Shooter on a number of ‘dispatch’ operations where our teams flew to breaking news event and produce, shoot, and cut shorter-form material and file it from the field. In this capacity, I covered a number of high-profile news events including the events in Baltimore that followed the death of Freddie Gray, a border crisis in the Dominican Republic, strikes and protests in Chicago, and Burundi's contested 2015 Presidential elections.
● Developed a thorough understanding of producing news-based, documentary-style videos and directing an on-camera reporter.
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