Tag: gay
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2024: “Show Up”
Human Rights Campaign Equality Votes PAC approached me to make a video in support of Joe Biden for the 2024 cycle. They had a specific reference, participants and messaging in mind. I took all those elements, added a section to talk about Biden’s accomplishments in office, which I felt would be important for the audience,…
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“The Human Rights Campaign Endorses Joe Biden for President 2020”
I was asked to discreetly make an endorsement video that centered on Joe Biden’s speeches at HRC dinners and events. It was the earliest days of of the pandemic and creative approaches were limited. I watched the many HRC speeches, pulled out the best recurring themes and then cut them into a mashup of Biden’s…
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2020: “Unite for Equality”
I spearheaded production of dozens of Human Rights Campaign films in important swing states like Arizona around specific LGBTQ+ campaign themes for the 2020 presidential election. Partnering with a stellar outside vendor, I supervised production of the creative from conception to delivery. One of my favorites is below: Client: Human Rights Campaign Role: Supervising Producer…
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The Pandemic, Livestreams and 2020 Election
Once the pandemic hit in 2020, we resorted to remote production for a large part of the cycle at the Human Rights Campaign. Instead of livestreaming in-person events, we pivoted to programmatic livestreams with hosts, guests and themes. I helped worked on finding the technology, deploying the solution and training staff, while supervising all the…
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“Meet the Human Rights Campaign\’s New President Alphonso David”
Client: Human Rights Campaign Role: Producer, Editor Run Time: 5:54
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Guerilla Marketing & Projections
As part of a small team, I traveled to Helsinki, Finland, for the infamous Trump-Putin presidential summit where along with some expert projectionists we guerilla broadcast LGBTQ+ messaging and HRC branding onto the presidential palace. Our director of comms had picked an amazing spot in view of all the live TV networks, and I livestreamed…
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“Hillary Clinton’s Rousing, Inspiring Tribute to Edie Windsor”
The directive was to clip Hillary Clinton’s speech at Edie Windsor’s funeral, which the Human Rights Campaign had a big hand in organizing, for social media. I edited the piece with music and broll, making a rousing homage. While it took a few additional hours, the video was shared thousands of times and earned millions…
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\”Liar. Liar.\”
Early in the Trump presidency at the Human Rights Campaign, after he started attacking the LGBTQ+ community and banning trans troops, I pitched a creative approach to calling Trump out while painting him as a carnival barker. The SVP comms liked it and in a matter of hours we posted this video across all our…
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2018 Midterms: “Take Action!”
I pitched this creative, wrote the script and then produced the video start to finish with the help of a freelance animator for HRC’s 2018 midterm elections effort to flip the U.S. House of Representatives and gain a pro-equality majority. Client: Human Rights Campaign Role: Executive Producer, Writer Run Time: 0:30
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#StopJeffMateer
In 2017 we pushed back against some of Trump’s most anti-LGBTQ nominees and policies. Trump had recommended Jeff Mateer for a lifetime judiciary appointment, and we mobilized folks into action against the nomination. We surfaced his remarks in a video online, livestreamed a press conference on Capitol Hill and then cut the livestream footage into…