Emmy-nominated · nearly 20 years telling stories
Emmy-nominated · nearly 20 years telling stories
I’m an Emmy-nominated storyteller and editorial leader who finds the human story inside complex missions.
For nearly 20 years I’ve been handed subjects I didn’t yet understand and asked to make people care about them. The job isn’t the shoot. It’s deciding what the story is actually about: which of an organization’s stories are worth telling, why they matter, whose perspective should lead, and what the work has to say to reach the people it’s for. Then guiding a team to execute that.
Twenty years of directing, shooting, and editing sit underneath every one of those calls. That’s why they hold up in production.
A few receipts, because good stories still need proof.
Selected work
Emmy-Nominated Education Storytelling
Creative Direction · Producer · Cinematographer · Editor
Kean and SENAI students in Brazil, reimagining sustainable and equitable housing. There was no script and no predetermined story. I found the why on location, then produced, shot and edited the film around it. Nominated for a 2026 New York Emmy.
View Case StudyDocumentary · Culture · Identity
Creative Direction · Producer · Director · Cinematographer
A documentary about Julio, a lifelong Bronx resident who in 1995 invited Fidel Castro to dinner at his restaurant, La Sierra Maestra. Official Selection at NBC News' Meet the Press Film Festival with AFI, and selected for 12 film festivals.
View Case StudyCommunity Safety · Civic Storytelling
Cinematographer
“Public Safety in Public Hands” for NowThis: how Newark rethought public safety by putting it in the community’s hands. I was contracted for the camera and stayed for the subject. Civic work like this is my range, not a detour from it.
View Case StudyBroadcast Production · Crew Leadership
Director of Photography
A Fat Joe segment for the BET Hip Hop Awards, shot at his house with no studio and no lighting grid. As director of photography I led camera, lighting and audio to build a working set inside a room never meant for one. Aired nationally on BET.
View Case StudyAward-Winning Alumni Storytelling
Creative Direction · Editor
More than 100 photographs and a set of vertical iPhone clips, in every format and quality. I built them into one cohesive film about lifelong connection to NYU. Winner of a Communicator Award and a W3 Award.
View Case StudyAdvocacy · Strategic Storytelling
Cinematographer · Editor
A petition film for Change.org about Tigray, told through Mabel and her family rather than through the news. I shot and cut the film and helped shape the story toward her reason for starting the petition. The petition drew around 25,000 signatures.
View Case StudyWhere I add value
Editorial judgment
“The work matters, but people outside can't see why.”
I find the person, the conflict, and the larger meaning inside an organization, community, or issue, so complex work becomes a story people follow and remember.
“There's plenty of footage and still no story.”
I set the angle, decide whose perspective leads, and guide the work through revision and approvals without losing the idea that made it worth making.
“Lots of videos ship; none of them add up.”
I build repeatable programming and content systems that ladder up to organizational goals, so content earns its keep instead of piling up.
Execution and craft
“Everyone agrees on the strategy; nobody can picture the film.”
I translate strategy into interviews, visual language, structure, tone, and pacing: one clear creative vision a whole team can execute.
“Productions keep slipping on logistics, stakeholders, and scope.”
I lead crews, schedules, stakeholders, and creative decisions from prep through delivery, protecting both the quality and the deadline.
“Some stories can't be handed off.”
I still produce, direct, interview, shoot, and edit when the story requires it. Twenty years of doing the work is why my editorial calls hold up in production.
Editorial Method
Arrive without the story. Learn the mission, the people, and the audience before deciding anything.
Locate the human reason this matters, underneath the institutional reason for making it.
Decide whose experience carries the story, and whose does not.
Commit to what this piece is about, which means naming what it will not be.
Every interview, frame, and cut answers to the angle, so a whole team executes one idea.
Build the final version for the people it is for and the platform it lives on.
Career journey
2005
Beginning at BronxNet Television and building hands-on experience in production, cinematography, interviewing, and editing.
2009
Covering MLB, NFL, NHL, and NBA games, plus entertainment red carpets and Fashion Week. Learning to find the moment whether it happened on the field, at the rink, courtside, or under a wall of flashbulbs.
2019
Atrevidos is an Official Selection at NBC News' Meet the Press Film Festival with AFI; Jorge completes an MFA in Documentary Studies at the City College of New York.
2024
Becoming Associate Director of Multimedia at Kean University, leading Kean News programming, editorial workflows, and a three-person team.
2026
The Kean University / SENAI Brazil short earns a New York Emmy nomination in the Education category.
About
I’m a Dominican-American storyteller shaped by Brooklyn, the Bronx, documentary filmmaking, and nearly two decades of turning complex missions into clear, human stories.
The best stories do more than explain the work. They help people feel why it matters.
Salvador, Brazil
Contact
For director-level multimedia, editorial, content strategy, and creative leadership roles.
For documentary, institutional, nonprofit, civic, cultural, and selected branded projects with something real to say.