I support social justice work and campaigns by creating professional and affordable videos for grassroots community organizations. I write, produce and edit videos for fundraising or media outreach. I can document your work or help create a social media campaign. I use a social justice analysis in the crafting of the messages and always produce pieces that viewers feel in their heart.

Video Samples

I edited this video with a media team for the LeftBay99 movement. A team of 8 videographers shot the events at the Novemeber, 2, 2011 Oakland General Strike. We set up a media lab near the action and the team dropped off all of their footage shot on various cameras and formats. I edited the final piece drawing from the work of skilled videographers to project the real concerns of Oakland residents who are in support of the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Oakland movements.

Youth on the Dividing Line is video journalism piece I created to feature the stories of the youth at Tierra y Libertad Organization in Tucson, Arizona. This video turned out to be the single most successful tool that they used for fundraising. It was also aired on several radio and internet broadcasting shows and was choosen for the ColorLines Magazine Film Festival and the ASU Human Rights Film Festival.

This piece highlights the Domestic Workers Alliance's day of action in Sacramento to support the California Domestic Worker's Bill of Rights. I collaborated with J. M. Aragón Pan Left Productions by filming while he edited the footage.

Arizona 101 is a piece I created to help people who work for social justice across the country understand what is happening in Arizona. The video lays out the human rights violations by local and federal law enforcement and highlights the struggle of the community toward justice. I edited the piece using footage I shot as well as footage by Dennis Gilman, Abraham Manuel Calderón, J.M. Aragón and photographs by Diane Ovalle and Chandra Narcia. Marisa Franco of NDLON was a creative consultant and it was used to support the work of Puente Movement and National Day Labor Organizing Network.

This is a piece is an instructional video to help migrants know their rights when they encounter law enforcement. J. M. Aragón and I collaboratively created this video to support the popular education work of Puente Movement and Coalición de Derechos Humanos. It is free on the internet and I passed out 100 copies at the Turning the Tide meeting of grassroots immigrants rights organizations. We both filmed while Jason did most of the editing and I did most of the graphics.

This video tells the story of BAJI the Black Alliance for Just Immigration. It was used at the BAJI 5 Year Anniversary Celebration and highlights this organization's work in the community and important ideological work linking the Civil Rights struggle to the Migrants Rights struggle. I filmed, edited and produced the graphics with the support of Shadi Rahimi who helped film, Opal Tometi of BAJI who collaborated on the script, Andrés Salerno who helped audio editing and affects and Chandra Narcia who helped with graphic design. The videos features the music of Ras K'ee of Audio Pharmacy.