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Independent Film Production Experience
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Ché Williams

Newark,NJ

Summary

Skilled producer, filmmaker and editor with extensive film industry background. Streamlined production schedules and activities to minimize delays or disruptions. Superb organizational and communications skills leading to achievement of high-level goals. Thrives working in team settings wearing multiple hats for multiple projects.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Producer/ Postproduction Coordinator

Blackfin TV
New York
12.2022 - Current
  • Managing deliverables and assets to send to network
  • Keeping track of and updating all scripts.
  • Tackled issues with crew members and producers immediately to achieve quick and effective resolution while keeping projects on schedule.
  • Managed production assistants in the field
  • Liaised between production and government agencies

Production/ Research Assistant

BLACKFIN
New York
07.2020 - 11.2022
  • Logging footage and archival materials
  • Reaching out to vendors to license archival images and footage
  • Transcribing interview audio.
  • Maintained communication between production staff and crew members.
  • Kept records of daily production activities.

Gaffer, Assistant Camera, Grip, Production Assistant

Freelance
New York/ New Jersey
06.2020 - Current
  • Working on sets of all sizes doing work ranging from lead gaffer (lighting) on short films to production assistant on bigger budget commercials and documentaries for network programming.

Researcher

Freelance
Remote
05.2021 - Current
  • Working in an as needed basis helping with research for documentaries ranging in topic from true crime investigations to south Florida hip hop.
  • Organized, processed, and inventoried archival materials such as documents, photographs, maps, audio-visual recordings, and artifacts.

Intern

GRANDVIEW AUTOMATIK
Remote, Los Angeles
06.2020 - 12.2020
  • Reading scripts and books then writing coverage (summary and analysis) for producers and managers at the company.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Film and Video Production & Africana Studies

HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE
05.2020

Skills

  • Shooting Experience: Panasonic, Sony and Canon Cinema and Mirrorless bodies
  • Software: Adobe Suite, Final Cut Pro, Davinci, Microsoft Office Suite
  • Story Pitches
  • Lighting Skills
  • Attention to Detail

Independent Film Production Experience

  • SENIOR THESIS, 09/2018, 05/2020, You Know the Vibes: Breaking the Mold of Amateur Basketball, Film about exploitation of student athletes in amateur basketball and the commodification and codification of the dreams of the mostly black players, Interviewed and filmed 50+ players, coaches, parents, and experts on the East Coast over nine months, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5CAa44sLGU
  • Other Videos Produced, I Can't Breathe (with this damn mask on my face), 2020, Short video journal entry in response to Covid 19 and the undervaluing of black lives in America, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmC2knTXwxw, SPEAK UP: Black Athletes and Resistance, 2018, Focuses on the history of black athletes and activism, https://vimeo.com/255311377

Affiliations

  • Basketball, baseball, ice hockey
  • Vintage sports card collector
  • Reading

Timeline

Associate Producer/ Postproduction Coordinator

Blackfin TV
12.2022 - Current

Researcher

Freelance
05.2021 - Current

Production/ Research Assistant

BLACKFIN
07.2020 - 11.2022

Gaffer, Assistant Camera, Grip, Production Assistant

Freelance
06.2020 - Current

Intern

GRANDVIEW AUTOMATIK
06.2020 - 12.2020

Bachelor of Arts - Film and Video Production & Africana Studies

HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE

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