Resume

ANURAG PAPOLU
anuragpapolu10@gmail.com
+1 585 - 209 - 0715

anuragpapolu.com

WORK EXPERIENCE
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• ASSISTANT EDITOR AT DIRECT PICTURES (Sep 2019 – Present)

  • Currently working on a documentary series about the pilgrimage traditions in India.
  • Responsibilities include assistant editing, VFX and other post production duties.
  

• VIDEO INTERN AT FIELD AGENCY (Documentary & Branded Content) (March 2019 – Present)
  • Building pitch decks, research, editing, shooting video, motion graphics.
  • Work published on NBC, Washington Post, Topic, and in development for Facebook & WSJ

• REPORTING INTERNSHIP AT THE BRIDGE (Brooklyn business news site) (June 2018 – Sep 2018)
  • Made short documentary features, and wrote about small business in Brooklyn.
  • Videos include coverage of gentrification, Brooklyn and the 2018 World Cup, the first
  fencing club in Brooklyn, and one of the largest dog walking companies in NY.

• FREELANCE VIDEOGRAPHER AND GRAPHIC DESIGNER (May 2014 – March 2017)

  • Was part of several production crews shooting corporate, wedding and ad films.
  • Clients include Blaze Automation, Mirage Media, Eats Shoots & Leaves Productions etc.
  • Provided logo design, poster design, branding and other marketing services to several
  businesses including Mahavir Motors, Van Lavino, Hyderabad House, Asav Wines etc.
  

PROJECTS
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• VIDEO & MOTION GRAPHICS (Jan 2015 – Present)

  • Various short documentaries set in New York City including

    • The impact of the NYC e-bike ban on immigrants [published in The Lo-Down],
      a master printmaker, a former world karate champion, and the canning community.

    • Wildlife series about coyotes, lichens, and corpse eating insects.

  • Motion graphics explainers about refugees’ belongings, design psychology and social
    media addiction, LIDAR and Mayan cities, colonisation in India, glacier melting in South Asia.
    

• WRITING & REPORTING (Aug 2017 – Dec 2018)

  • Data & interactive stories about international students in the US, social media’s
    influence on overthrowing a dictator in The Gambia.

  • Wrote several news and feature stories about NYC’s Lower East Side
    - Stories about- A kid run after school program, the unintended beneficiaries of a
    controversial dancing law, town hall meeting with the Mayor etc.
    

• EXPERIMENTAL & OTHER CREATIVE WORK (Aug 2014 – Present)

  • Sounds Like Hyderabad- recorded, mapped and photographed sources of dying
    sounds in Hyderabad, India.

  • What is a climate model?- an animated/text hybrid science explainer.

  • Personal travel photography portfolio. April 2008 – Present
    
    

EDUCATION
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ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Rochester, NY. (May 2014)
Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography and New Media Design

CUNY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, New York, NY. (December 2018)
Master of Arts in Journalism

SKILLS
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DOCUMENTARY METHODS
• Conceptualizing, Cinematography, Audio field recording, Video and story editing, Archival
research, Information design, Visual problem solving, Adobe Creative Suite, Sony a7 & FS
series cameras, Canon C100 Series Cameras etc, Profoto & Broncolor lighting kits.
REPORTING METHODS
• Identifying stories, finding sources, interviewing, investigating public records, court
documents, FOIA/FOILs.