Tim Freccia
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
Tim's work has been featured in VICE Magazine, The New York Times,
Business Week, Al Jazeera, BBC, Global Post, Neue Züricher Zeitung, The
Age, The National, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, AP, Stern Online, TIME
Magazine and a variety of other print and broadcast outlets. Tim
Freccia was born in Seattle and began his working career as an Alaska
fisherman at age sixteen. After graduating from art school in 1989 he
has covered crisis and conflict worldwide. Tim worked in Haiti for
USAID, PBS and various print outlets from 1989-1991, and obtained an
exclusive interview with General Raoul Cedras, following the first coup
that ousted Jean Bertrand Aristide. Through the 1990s, Tim worked in
North and West Africa shooting stills and video, including interviews
with Nelson Mandela and Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade. In the
mid-1990s Tim settled in Berlin Germany, was a co-founder and creative
director of three full-service communications agencies, and shot
commercial stills and video, servicing large multinationals including
Unilever. In 2005, Tim spent ten months covering the Indian Ocean
Tsunami response. Tim shot stills and video, producing over 100 hours
of footage- the largest existing archive of motion picture material
acquired in Aceh Province, Indonesia. In 2007, Tim designed, and acted
as Creative Director for an IPTV (interactive television) platform with
Deutsche Telekom, and delivered a series of still photo and video
dispatches from Kashmir. Tim has produced still photography and motion
pictures for a number of NGOs and organizations including the UN,
George Clooney's Not On Our Watch, CARE International, Human Rights
Watch, World Vision and the German umbrella fund raising organization
Aktion Deutschland Hilft, in Europe, Asia and Africa. In November 2008,
Tim traveled to Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo and began a series
of ongoing dispatches on the war and humanitarian crisis there. He
spent the beginning of 2010 documenting Haiti's 7.0 earthquake, and has
made a number of trips to Mogadishu, Somalia over the last years.
Recently he has worked in South Sudan with actors and activists George
Clooney and Mia Farrow, and produced the documentary film entitled
"Cowboy Capitalists". Tim is based in New York, working in
Eastern/Southern Europe, Africa and the Middle East.