Irene Carolina Herrera (ireneherrera.com) is a freelance multilingual Cuban-Venezuelan filmmaker, visual journalist, and producer with over 15 years experience producing and creating documentary and journalistic content in traditional and new media formats with an emphasis on Latin America and Asia.Upon finishing her B.A. in visual journalism and cinema studies, she headed to Japan as a Monbukagakusho scholar to pursue an M.A. in filmmaking and doctoral studies in photography at Nihon University.Among her documentary works are "Gaijin no Honne: The story of 5 women in Tokyo" (2004); "Kodo wo Awaseba" (2005); "You Can Call Me Nikkie" (2008); "Women in Refuge: Stories from a Border" (2009); "Crossing Hispaniola" (2010); "Spirits to Enlightenment" (2012); "Some Bunny Loves You" (2013), and collaboration with "Japan in a Day" produced by Ridley Scott. These works have been shown in festivals such as Asian American International Film Festival, UNAFF, HOT DOCS, the Boston Latino International Film Festival and broadcasted on Link TV, INTI, and MNET.Her articles, photographs and videos have been featured in Venezuelan outlets such as El Universal, El Globo, Platano Verde, and Japanese publications such as Metropolis, Sotokoto, Dune, Jazznin, The Japan Times and The Miami Herald. She has also reported for Globovision and Union Radio.Irene has been a collaborator of the Global Lives Project, invited to participate in the Flaherty Seminar as a fellow and a resident professional at the University of Miami’s Knight Center for International Media. Her work and love for travel have taken her to over 55 countries where she has learned 5 languages.Founder of Shakti Productions. Irene specializes in producing, reporting, shooting, and sourcing visual material for foreign productions in Japan, Asia, and Latin America for factual and current events programming in a variety of formats, from raw footage to short journalistic reports and longer format investigative documentaries.Roles include production manager, field producer, location manager, fixing, translating, creating linkages with local partners, researching, writing, directing, shooting, and editing.Clients include: NHK World Español Radio, AFP, CNNE, CNNI, MSNBC.com, VOX, The Guardian, Al Jazeera America, Center for Investigative Reporting, Video Cairo, Risala Media Productions, PBS Newshour, Latina Corp, United Nations University, Labrador Agency, InTheMo, Goma Communication, Discovery Digital, Foodable TV, Japan Expo France, and NGOs such as Oxfam Japan, the Jesuit Refugee Service, Human Rights Watch, Asia Initiatives, MSSRF, Earth Island, International Bridges of Justice, and Friends of Asian University for Women Japan.Samples of work:
Web page: ireneherrera.com
Published works: https://ireneherrera.contently.com/
Vimeo channel: https://vimeo.com/ireneherrera
Current events photo coverage: http://www.demotix.com/users/irene-carolina-herrera/profile
Photoshelter archive: http://ireneherrera.photoshelter.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ireneherrera
Twitter: herrera_irene
Instagram: ireneherrera7
Facebook: irenecarolina.herrera
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