credits

• Cinematographer for various indies (16mm & video), including Kiss and Run (Hollie Harper), and Prodigy (Todd Heyman), which screened at NYC’s Film Forum.

• Writer/Director/Cinematographer/Editor for many shorts, including the 25 minute Veneer and Loathing: The Pollatix of Grain and Periphery, in which I covered the 2008 Democratic National Convention for Kenneth Cole Productions.

• MTV Choose or Lose Citizen Journalist/Videographer Representing Oregon
I entered a state-wide competition to represent Oregon as on on-the-ground reporter/shooter/editor/anchor for the Choose or Lose Citizen Journalist Street Team. I won. Videos here

• Officially Credentialed Blogger for both the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention [a video or two here]

• Film Review for Pacifica Radio

• A Commonweal Institute Fellow. The Commonweal Institute is a non-partisan alliance of independent thinkers leading conversations in media outlets and social networks about our shared values as Americans and progressive approaches to solving problems.

• Author/Illustrator of SCARY: A Book of Horrible Things for Kids, nominated by Foreword Magazine as 2005 Book of the Year (Juvenile Non Fiction), praised by Newbery Award Winning author Lloyd Alexander as well as Kirkus Reviews and many others

• Author published in Chican@ Art Magazine

• When it comes to education, I am especially grateful to Nick Tanis, Katherine Hurbis-Cherier, Marco Williams, and George C. Stoney (all NYU) for various early wisdom and technique.

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• G.E.D. 1988 (quit High School at 16)
• Photography major for 1.5 Undergrad yrs at Sullivan County Community College
• NYU FILM Graduate 2001 (graduated with honors)
Credits for childrens’ book and indie films under the name Joaquín Ramón Herrera as that is my given name.