Warsaw, Poland
Vigan, Philippines
Illocos Sur, Philippines
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Warsaw, Poland |
Vigan, Philippines |
Illocos Sur, Philippines |
ALAN GEOGHEGAN CAREER SYNOPSIS:
I have spent 15 years as a videographer & video editor, scriptwriter & researcher & producer on a number of video and media projects worldwide, living in New York, Manila, Brussels and South Carolina. My work has enabled me to explore and research a number of global issues mainly in the southern hemisphere. I have used my experience to support many non profit and international organizations in their quest for cost-effective, informative and visually compelling video & audio-visual services. I relocated from the Philippines (where I was born) to South Carolina in 1997 after 4 years of video projects and travels, settling in Columbia, South Carolina. I worked for Mediassociates for 3 years, then formed Medianetwork which provides video production, post-production and audio-visual production services in the state. In 2010 I formed Taravision, both to display my international and non-profit video work as well as this web-blog to share photos, videos and multi-media content primarily from countries of the Southern Hemisphere with a view toward cultural and environmental preservation in these inspiring areas. My blog is a global multi-cultural web site to promote international issues I care about, while serving as an on-line presence for my multi-cultural video and photography work.
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Video stills from "The Jewel of the Congaree-Art & Industry in South Carolina", for the Calhoun County Museum, SC, 1998. Directed by Frost Wilkinson.
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VIDEO PRODUCTIONS: USA, 1997-present (PARTIAL LIST) Video Editor/Technical Consultant for Oyster-reef restoration PSA, SC Nature Conservancy. Director/Videographer/Video Editor of "A Philippine Journey", a self-produced compilation outlining 14 years of travels and living in the Philippines. Premiered at Columbia SC's Filipino-American Annual Gala. Currently in pre-production for 2-part cable show, slated to launch late 2011. Videographer of reunion for Vietnam Marine Corps helicopter squadron HMM 263, revisiting the past and reminicing about Vietnam. In-post-production, Aug. 2010. Video Editor/Technical Consultant of "A Video Report of the Parliament of the World's Religions ", a video Report Premiered at The Academy for Future Science Annual conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April, 2010. Video Editor of "Nutcracker Public Service Announcement" for 2009's Nutcracker production by The Carolina Ballet. Videographer for Wizard of Apps, magic apps for Iphone and iPod. With Tudor Communications, Columbia SC August, 2009. Videographer/Editor: Cancer-Cure PSA and short Infomercials for QHM Medical, an alternative cancer treatment center & International Association of Medical Doctors. 2008-9. Videographer/Video Editor of 4 feature-length UN conference reports, "Responding to the Climate Crisis: asking the right questions", "Living with Radiation in the Modern World - Commemorating Chernobyl - Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki" , “The Impact of a Degrading Environment on Human Health”, and “Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of Chernobyl”: the latter,In collaboration with Dreamchaser Productions and The Chernobyl Children's Project, Dublin & Cork Ireland. World Information Transfer, NY. 1991 - 2007. Videographer/Video Editor of "A Review of the situation of Orphans in the Philippines", a self-produced documentary to showcase benefitting charities. Premiered at Columbia SC's Filipino-American Gala in 2007. Videographer/Editor“Prysmian e-Business”, a corporate video for Prysmian Cable Systems, SC, Feb. 2007. Videographer/Editor of “The Coronation of the King”, Koger Center for the Arts, Columbia SC, Sion’s Rose Ministries, fall, 2006. Videographer/Editor: "Fantasy of Light" a plein-air oil painting demonstration video (1 of 12) for Florida impressionist oil painter, Morgan Samuel Price. Jan, 2006. Videographer/Video Editor of "The Future of the American Hemisphere", "Cultural Contribution", "Viva Mexico", and Keane: Mexico Montage". "Hemisphere" premiered at the US Club of Rome's Annual Conference at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. US Club of Rome, 2004- 2006. Video Editor of a promotional video for “The Heart of Hope Academy", a school for children with severe developmental disabilities. Atlanta, Georgia, 2005. Videographer for Cartel Creativo, Inc. one of the largest Hispanic marketing firms in the US, in San Antonio, TX. 2004. Video Editor: Britney Spears Onyx Tour pre-show in collaboration with Blink TV, London, with Director, Marcus Viner. 2004. Director/Videographer/Video Editor of "Preserving Culture: the T'boli of Mindanao" about the T'boli tribe in southern Philippines, with a focus on cultural and environmental preservation as experienced by T'boli women and artisans. Awarded Individual Artist Grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission, screened at SCINDY Festival, Piccolo Spoleto, Charleston, SC, 2002, and at the 2002's Colossal Film Festival. Provided video coverage for the Annual United Nations Department of Information Conference at UN Headquarters, including a presentation given by J. Ramos Horta. 1997. Alan has coordinated and created website projects for a wide range of corporate, non-profit and private companies including The Executive Forum, New York, The Ancient Order Of Hibernians (St.Columba Division) , The National Alliance for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, children's author and Illustrator Robert Quackenbush and The Cock & Bull Pub-Grille, a European-style pub in Columbia SC. |
Communications Coordinator, World Association for Orphans, WAO, New York, 1989-1990, Brussels 1991-1992. Managed media department and video producer for International children's organization. Formerly active in 122 Countries. Videotaped and Edited international conferences for WAO in Lomé, Togo, West Africa, at the University for Peace in San José, Costa Rica, Manila, Philippines, London, England and at the United Nations in New York. Provided Video Documentation of cottage industry training program for street children on basket-making and native weaving in Samar, Philippines and WAO prosthesis projects for handicapped children in Bogota, Columbia. Director/Writer/Video Editor of 2 videos:"The Children of the Philippines", about street children; and "WAO in the Philippines", on development assistance for abandoned children. Producer of "The Light Inside You", a slide presentation for orphans to lead more productive lives, distributed in 120 countries. WAO, New York and Belgium. Director/ Writer/ Video Editor of "The Impact of Abandonment in New York City" , on street children of New York, "Paula, a Personal Tragedy," about a teen runaway in NYC. |
Videographer/Video Editor for World Information Transfer, an ecological NGO promoting environmental literacy worldwide: "Global Partners for Global Solutions," "The Impact of a Degrading Environment on Human Health", and "Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of Chernobyl" . World Information Transfer, New York, 1991-2007. Production Coordinator of an informational video about the Jewish Museum in NY, for first-time visitors after they enter. Video Production Coordinator of 3 live stage performances of Max Roach's "JuJu", and Sekou Sundiata's "The Mystery of Love", the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Lincoln Center. Directed by acclaimed video artist Kit Fitzgerald. Cameraman "A Tribute to Marvin Gaye", a multimedia tribute performance featuring live music, video feeds on video walls, poetry and theater. Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Video Editor of 2 award winning MTV bumpers for Director Gustavo Garzon. Assistant Video Editor for educational video on "The Effects of Pesticides on Farm-Workers in the US". The Pesticide Education Center . Archival Researcher for "Danger, Kids at Work," a profile on child labor for Lifetime Television. Videographer / Video Editor of12 instructional video programs for Florida based oil painter Morgan Samuel Price on landscape oil painting , the first, "The Artist who Paints the Light" in 1990, the latest, a watercolor demonstration video "Fantasy of Light" , in 2006. |
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historical preservation and children's projects, Philippines |
on location in Sierra Leone, West Africa |
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In Sierra Leone, West Africa |
In Mexico City |
OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE:
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Writer of "Pinoy Pride Lives on" an article published in Filipinas Magazine on the Filipino-American Association of Greater Columbia South Carolina, featured in its February 2005 issue. Nominated in 1997's "Rosewater Humanitarian Photographer of the Year Awards". Exhibit toured Canada & US. Oregon, 1997. Director/Writer/Editor of "The Rural People Of Kapeté" , & "The Bundo Devil ", two self-produced video programs about rural and urban life in Sierra Leone, West Africa, with a focus on culture, women, traditional medicine and rural-urban migration. Finalist: Suffolk County Motion Picture and TV Commission video & Film competition. Broadcast on Africvision, NY, 1991. Contributed Photographs to "Gray's UN Cover" about a diplomat's inside view of the UN, through and published photos on West Africa for "Trésors Litéraires", a French textbook published by McGraw Hill. 1997. Judged Entries for the United Nations Environment Programmes' Youth Forum Conference & edited a video montage screened at the General Assembly, 1991. Assistant Producer of "Kids on Cable ". Coordinated 3 camera studio & location video reports, and field reporter on 2 seasons for American Cable Systems children's program, Ossining. New York. Fall, 1986. Assistant Cameraman of "The Southwest Light", to promote the conservation & renovation of Block Island's oldest lighthouse. Block Island Historical Society, Rhode Island, Summer 1986. President of SUNY Purchase Video Center. Coordinated video workshops for students, wrote, proposed and managed annual budget. Completed Internships at :American Cable Systems; Metromedia TV; & Adams Russell Cable TV, New York, 1986-1988. |
State University of New York at Purchase. Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts, 1988. Dean's list, March, 1986. |
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San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2nd. prize winner: Earthvision Film Festival, Santa Barbara CA |
President (2005-2009), Vice-President: (2003-2005) Executive Board Member (2001-2003) Filipino-American Assoc. of Columbia, SC, PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: |
| PERSONAL DATA: US Citizen of French, Irish and British descent. Born in Manila,
Philippines LIKES: holistic health & natural healing, videography, photography & web site design, sailing, world music & travel LANGUAGES: French, some Tagalog, some Spanish |
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dad's biography |
Geoghegan Clan |
Philippine gallery |
Cecille's biography |
Paul Henry |
" Why is it that we judge development on what we have built rather than what we have preserved?
We strive to protect what was built by man, but give little thought to protecting what was made by God."
Juanito Cambangay, provincial planning and development officer, Bohol, Philippines
