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Jim Frances,
Television PhotoJournalism & Production

Experience:

Television Director of Photography/Producer (Current)
Various shooting and editing assignments for broadcast, narrowcast, educational, commercial, and non-commercial clients including:
Broadcast/Cablecast
ABC News: 20/20, Nightline, Good Morning America, World News Tonight
CBS News: Evening News, 60 Minutes, Sunday Morning, CBS Early Show; ESPN; SNY SportsNeta
NBC News: Nightly News, The TODAY Show, CNBC, MS-NBC, Dateline NBC, NBC Sports Group
CNN Cable News Network: American Morning, Inside Politics, Larry King Live, Lou Dobbs
PBS News Hour Need to Know; Lion Television; Ken Burns Behind the Scenes; Newsweek Prod.; Fox News Network, Geraldo At Large; Bloomberg Television; Al Roker Productions; David Axelrod Associates/AKP Political Media: Producer/DP-Deval Patrick for Gov. Commercials; Kraft Sports Productions;
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) CBC Sports; Canadian Television News (CTV); Network 10 Australia; Sky News Eurovision; Swiss National Public Television (DRS & TSR); Dutch National Television (NLNOS; Public Television of Spain (TVE); Helenic Radio Television (ERT); Danish Broadcasting Corp.; Nippon Television; Fuji Television; NHK Television; Al Jazeera' The Brazil Network; Panamanian Television Network
ABC Network: The Bachelorette; The Sports Network (TSN); The Documentary Guild (Frontline/NOVA PBS); Nightly Business Report (PBS); Cambridge Documentary Films; West City Documentary Films
Home Box Office (HBO) 20th Century Fox; Miramax Films (electronic press kits for features) Discovery Magazine; Discovery Channel; C/Net (USA cable); FX Cable; Court TV: Live Trial Coverage, After the Verdict, Trial Story, Prime Time Justice, Cochran & Co., Pros and Cons, Reel Story
Home Box Office (HBO); 20th Century Fox; Miramax Films (electronic press kits for features) Discovery: Daily Planet; Court TV: Live Trial Coverage, After the Verdict, Trial Story, Prime Time Justice, Pros and Cons
WGBH, Boston (PBS); WTVS, Detroit (PBS); KTCA-TV, Minneapolis (PBS); WNBC Sports; WCBS Sports WCVB. Chronicle, Boston (ABC) ; Music Television (MTV) The Real World; VH-1; Cinetel Studios
The Oprah Winfrey Show; Inside Edition; The Ellen DeGeneres Show; Extra
Feature
"Sentence to Life"--Independent feature film
Narrowcast
Longwood Symphony Orchestra Dow Jones Television; Time/Life Medical Television; Accenture Consulting Millennium Pharmaceuticals; Glaxo/SmithKline Pharmaceuticals; Abbott Laboratories; New England Technology Group: Women, Infants and Children (WIC) video kiosks The American Management Association Tom Snyder/ Soup2Nuts Productions; Mass. Corp. for Educational Telecommunication Institute for HealthCare Improvement
Corporate/Commercials/Industrials
Oracle Systems; Accenture Consulting; Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals; GSK; Toshiba America Medical; IBM; Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI); Apple Computer; EMC Computers; Novell Computer; Samuel Adams/Boston Beer Co.; HR Block; Allstate Insurance; JC Penny; Greg Stone Productions; 3Com; Nivo/Microsoft; Edelman PR

Former Staff Positions:

Executive Director/Photojournalist/Producer,
Media Works Inc. Boston, MA
Founder of this independent media firm. Responsible for proposal development, budget management, technical supervision and production of educational and documentary television programming. Director of Photography/Producer for the public television documentary: Sex Education in America: AIDS and Adolescence.
Photographer/Editor, Assoc. Producer,
WBZ-TV (CBS O&O) Boston, MA
Comprehensive experience in international, national, and regional news gathering, editing, and post-production (live and taped). Areas of expertise include health/medical, education, investigative, and political coverage for specials, series, and documentaries. Involvement on projects ranged from preliminary research through production and post.
Broadcast Engineer, WBZ-TV, Boston, MA
Assignments in all facets of this major market television technical operation. Specific skills include master control, microwave transmission/reception, technical directing, camera, audio, video control, videotape editing (all formats).
Production Assistant, NBC Network News, New York
Temporary Broadcast Technician, KPIX-TV, San Francisco

Documentary Credits

Director of Photography/Producer
Sex Education in America: AIDS and Adolescence
Director of Photography/Editor/Producer
Living with AIDS: The Paul Cronan Story
Director of Photography/Editor/Producer
Boston's Irish Underground
Photographer
Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back ( documentary for NOVA)
Editor/Technical Consultant
Shout Youngstown
Production Assistant
Union Maids (Academy Award Nominee, Documentary Feature)
Production Consultant
Defending Our Lives (Academy Award Winner, Documentary)
Director of Photography
Sentenced to Life (Independent feature film)

Education

B.A. Communications and Engineering, Antioch University, Yellow Springs, Ohio
Mathematics/Science Diploma, Stuyvesant High School, New York City, NY
First Class F.C.C. Radio-Telephone Broadcast License with Radar Endorsement
Avid Editing: Media Composer Digital Non-Linear editing certificate

Awards

1988 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award: AIDS: The Paul Cronan Story
1991 Boston Press Photographers Association News Feature Prize: Pediatric AIDS: Danny Rose
1985 Boston Press Photographers Association First Prize: Cambodia's Endless War

Membership

CWA/NABET; IBEW

Contact:

cell: 617.733.4006 tel: 617.527.1655
Jim@JimFrances.com
Television PhotoJournalism
Newton/Boston MA 02465