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American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein

Supervising Producer and Videographer for a feature-length documentary about the Jewish-American Academic Norman Finkelstein.


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From Baghdad to Brooklyn

From exile in Syria to a new start in New York, one journalist chronicles a gay Iraqi model’s journey and the unlikely friendship that emerges. Directed by Jennifer Utz.

Currently in production. Fiscal Sponsorship provided by Women Make Movies.


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BBC Switch
"Revealed," a program on BBC Switch, an online video hub for British youth

Videographer, Editor

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CBS
Domestic News Editing for CBS, ABC, and FOX

Producer/Editor

 

BBC America: News Promos

Editor

> Democratic National Convention 1 (RT: 00:20)
> Democratic National Convention 2 (RT: 00:20)
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John McCain VP Choice (RT: 00:20)
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Republican National Convention (RT: 00:15)

> Newsnight 15 sec promo (RT: 00:15)
> Newsnight 30 sec promo (RT: 00:30)
Iraqi Refugee Stories
Iraqi Refugees find home on new website: voices missing from the media tell of life in exile.

All text, video interviews, editing, graphic design, and web design by Jennifer Utz


> Visit the site: www.iraqirefugeestories.org

Iraq's Refugees: Living in the Shadows

Amman, Jordan: Once proprietors of a Baghdad jewelry shop, this 18-member family now struggles to run their lives out of a three-bedroom apartment. Although free from the sectarian violence that has engulfed Iraq, they still face an uncertain future.

Producer, Videographer, Editor, Scriptwriter, Correspondent

> View the report that aired on Current TV (RT: 05:40)

No More Victims: One Man's Quest to right the wrongs of war

No More Victims is a non-profit organization that brings Iraqi children who've been injured as a direct result of US Forces to the United States for medical treatment. Meet Omar, Salee, and Rusul, three of many children to whom he's given a new chance at life.

Producer, Videographer, Editor, Scriptwriter, Correspondent

> View the story that aired on GRIT TV with Laura Flanders
(RT: 08:40)


 

Diary from Damascus

With the war in its fifth year and over four million people displaced, one who wonders how an American journalist visiting a family of Iraqi refugees would be treated might be surprised.

  • Producer, Videographer, Editor, Scriptwriter, Correspondent

> View the report that aired on Democracy Now (RT: 4:00)

 

Iraqi Refugees: Going Home, from Damascus to Baghdad

It may seem incomprehensible to go back to one of the most dangerous places on earth, but for Marwa and her family, Iraq is the only home they know.

> View the report that aired on France 24 (RT: 02:15)

 
 

Burma: In the Frame

The constant threat of capture, arrest and torture are just some of the hazards of working as an undercover journalist in Burma. The brave video-journalists of the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) are the only media in Burma that has so far managed to evade the savage crackdown on that country’s free press.

  • Videographer in NYC for Director and Correspondent Aaron Lewis

> View the report that aired on SBS - Dateline (RT: 30:00)

 

Jane Campion: An Interview for Barnes and Noble

Jane Campion discusses her latest film, "Bright Star" for Barnes & Noble.com

  • Cinematographer, Videographer, Editor

>View the interview

 

Democracy Now

For two years, I was an Associate Producer at Democracy Now, a daily radio and television news broadcast, hosted by the award-winning journalist Amy Goodman. During various trips abroad, I was also their Middle-East Correspondant.

  • Shooting news events on location
  • Control Room Production during each day’s live news broadcast
  • Researching guests and show topics
  • Editing visual material for each day’s program
  • Creating on-air graphics with Photoshop
  • Monitoring Reuters news feeds, booking insert studios

    > Visit the Democracy Now Website to view the show online

 

 

GOOD Magazine - 11 Spring Street Art Exhibit

A documentation of one of the most significant exhibitions of street art ever. Artists from all over the world came to the vacant space at 11 Spring Street in NYC to plaster, paint, solder, glue, and otherwise make their mark on the building before it was converted to condominiums. When the space opened to the public for three days last December, tens of thousands of people lined up for blocks to enter.

 

Comcast Network's Backstage

Blake Hayes takes you BACKSTAGE with David Blaine. His latest stunt -- hanging upside down for 60 hours above New York's Central Park -- is his most dangerous yet.
Originally seen on CN8/Comcast Network's Backstage.

 

GOOD Magazine - NYC Children

Photographer Danny Goldfield has set out to photograph one child from every country on Earth who must all live in New York City.

 

Third Millenium Foundation - Spread Tolerance

The project's goal: "Meet the Third Millennium Foundation's founder, Marco Stoffel, and two program partners and learn about what you can do to stand up against intolerance."


 

Microsoft Internal Training Videos

  • Producer, Videographer, Cinematographer

    > Video Not Available: Under NDA Contract
 



 

Video for Social Change

I spent four months living in Gujarat, India, where I taught video production to members of a women's empowerment NGO.

The students' final project was designed to reach a non-literate audience of marginalized lower-caste and indigenous populations.

>View Photos, Read Press

VIEW CLIPS FROM THE STUDENTS' FINAL PROJECT

Introduction (RT: 02:04)
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Education (RT: 00:56)
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Call to Action (RT: 01:12)
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Semester at Sea

Feature-length documentary about the Semester at Sea study-abroad program.

  • Editor and Producer (cut from over 80 hours of footage)

DOWNLOAD CLIPS

The Students Visit the Townships of South Africa (RT: 04:48)
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The Voyage Comes to an End (RT: 01:11)
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Sea Olympics (RT: 00:58)
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Semester at Sea: Trailer (RT: 03:01)
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Microsoft Portable Media Player
Marketing Video

  • Producer, After Effects, Videographer, Cinematographer, Editor

    > View Clip (RT: 00:51)
 

Other People
A short film, inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit", which debuted at the Longbaugh Film Festival, in Portland, Oregon.

  • Producer, Director, Writer, Editor, After Effects Animator

    > View Clip (RT: 00:58)

Experimental Film: "Emouvant"
A 16mm film about the power of dance. Edited on a 16mm flatbed editing system, this film was won First Prize at the 1997 University of Wisconsin Film Festival.

  • Producer, Videographer, Cinematographer, Editor

    > View Clip (RT: 00:45)
*DVD Reel available upon request*

 

JENNIFER JO UTZ
jen@jennyjo.com