Portfolio: Documentary

Documenting the hearts of wine

During the time in which I lived the nomad lifestyle, my life long friend Mariana became a sommelier and later on a wine and gastronomy writer. In 2022, on a family trip to Argentina, we arranged for her to take me along on a work trip. She’d be the writer and I’d be the photographer. We spent 5 days in Mendoza visiting producers, chefs, sommeliers and all sorts of passionate people who devote their days to conversing with the Andes and bringing the fruits of the conversation back to the table.

BBC Reel – In the Mix: Nalingi Yo

In the Lingala language 'Nalingi Yo' means 'I love you'. In this piece, multidisciplinary artist Rachel Isabel Mukendi explores her Congolese heritage and discusses how love translates through the community of black women that surround her and how the language of love is expressed. As an animator and editor used to working in more informative...

BBC Reel – Mantra meditation: The ancient practice to heal our minds

I was commissioned this piece through Storyhunter. Producer Harriet Constable sent me the script and interview footage and I proposed relevant visuals for each segment. While I drew and animated, she recorded the voice over and piece to camera. Finally, I tied it all together with transitions and sound effects to stress the film's message. Watch...

Bloomberg Law – Prince, Andy Warhol, and Fair Use at the Supreme Court

Did Andy Warhol transform Lynn Goldsmith’s photo enough to be allowed to use it? Or has he infringed her copyright?
What makes for transformative use of copyright protected material? The Supreme Court tackles the fair use defense in the Arts for the first time in decades.

Bloomberg Law – The Shadow Docket and how the Supreme Court uses it.

Motion Graphics and video editing for this informative yet fun explainer video commissioned to me by Bloomberg.
What an honor it has been to be create the visuals for this informative explainer on such an important topic.

Watch and enjoy!

Anna, Olga, Frida and Luna- A story about love, family, diversity and immigration.

Great Big Story was a media company producing micro-documentaries launched in October 2015 by CNN. Their YouTube channel had almost 6 million subscribers in September 2020, when CNN suddenly decided to end GBS in the midst of the global pandemic. Only a couple weeks before, I was commissioned to shoot an interview and b-roll with a unique family in Argentina. The footage captured by me would later be combined with other 6 family portraits around the world to create GBS piece on ‘Family’. This is a peek into that heart warming shot that never made it to its final version.

BBC Reel – Rethink – Why the ‘perfect mother’ ideal sets us up for failure

I was commissioned this piece through Storyhunter. The BBC Reel Rethink team sent me the video footage of Melissa Hogenboom talking into the camera and I created all the visuals and sounds that accompany her reflections. What an honor it has been to be create the visuals for this beautiful Animated Essay on such a current relevant topic. Watch...

The quotidian – An unfinished ode to the subtleties that make me feel at home

It was 2003 and I still didn’t have a digital camera. I was taking the foundation year for filmmaking at public University in Buenos Aires. The foundation year was common to many programmes. Facing an entire year of non camera related assignments felt backwards to me, so I enrolled in a private, after-hours visual storytelling workshop and started working on a small personal project that life (or more precisely, death) would make impossible for me to finish.

This is not my home?

Within DearWorld's initiative to collect stories about COVID-19 I had to deliver a portrait (self portrait in my self-quarantined case), the story in the form of a letter and some behind the scenes/archive footage as the PS. I also had to incorporate their style into the portrait, by writing a phrase of the story on the body of the person...

Global Eclipse Gathering 2020 – Part 2

After that first unexpected trip and teaser production in April 2019, I had yet to experience more serendipity with the Global Eclipse Gathering Project. 3 more trips later, I would produce over 20 videos for them…

Documentary is probably my favourite area of work. After several years of studying photography I developed an interest in filmmaking. Back then, cameras were expensive and scarce. I went into filmmaking school only to realize I was more into documentary than fiction, so I swapped to a specific documentary filmmaking school. It took me several years to be able to produce my first documentary film: “Who Looks After” with a borrowed camcoder. It competed in several Festivals and was awarded a Diploma at Krakow’s International Film Festival 50th Edition. Documentary style projects enable a deep connection with those that trust me to tell their story, it brings me great joy and resposability

Writing

Research. Scripts, treatment, interviews, concept development

Videography

High quality candid shots. Interviews
Always available to travel

Video Editing

Over 10 years of experience
I work with every non linear editing software

Photography

Photography was my first passion. Photo stories are my most frequent personal projects

Documentary Videos

Need to tell a story?

Whether you have a very specific task or just a myriad of questions and hesitations, please reach out! I’ll be happy to offer my input.

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Muriel Rebora