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Jeff DePonte
Hawaii
Director/Photographer
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Title/Occupation:  Cinematographer 
Services Provided:  Film/Video Editing 
Gender: Male
Race: Asian/Pacific Islander
Citizenship: US
Languages Spoken: English

Brief Message to Members: 

Aloha IDA Members!

I'm a longtime Director/DP who loves documentary films, especially love working in verité style. I have travelled and worked extensively throughout Hawaii. I'm now working throughout the Pacific, having shot projects in American Samoa and Fiji, too. I recently acquired a Panasonic AF100 digital cinema/HD camera, and combined with my set of Nikon prime and zoom lenses, am making beautiful images.

I love shooting for myself and for others, too. Please let me know if I may be of service to you.

Jeff DePonte

Biography: 

Jeff DePonte... is an award-winning writer, producer, director, videographer, and photographer. Jeff is currently the principal of Jeff DePonte, LLC. This production company provides video and production services to a variety of clients, including having produced 56 episodes of “Imua TV,” “Recollections,” “Na ʻĀina Hoʻoilina o Kamehameha,” and “Through Namaka’s Eyes: The Life of Patience Bacon” for Kamehameha Schools. Current and former clients include the Queen Liliʻuokalani Trust, PBS-Hawaii, Hawaiʻi Pacific Health, Children’s Miracle Network, KHON, and KITV.

DePonte was also co-founder and President of Pipeline Digital, Hawaii, a software company specializing in VTR control software for video professionals worldwide. This small operation had a major impact in the world of nonlinear video editing. He oversaw product development, marketing and communications, negotiated licensing agreements, and managed relations between Pipeline and strategic business partners including Apple, Sony, Adobe, Pinnacle, Intergraph, Radius, SGI, BOXX, PilotWare, and Media 100.

I'm now back shooting, directing, and editing full-time, and loving every minute of it. Current personal projects include "Bye-bye, Charlie?" This film, about the disastrous impact the decline of the tuna industry in American Samoa is having on families there, was recently awarded a production grant from Pacific Islanders in Communications, one of the PBS Minority Consortia. And, I'm just about to launch "Out of the Dark," a film about Nuon Phaly, a survivor of Cambodia's infamous killing fields, and one of the great humanitarians of our time.