Brian Dawson
Cinematographer Filmmaker Art Director Motion Designer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Dawson is an Emmy Award-winning cinematographer, filmmaker, art director and motion designer based in San Francisco with 14 years crafting visual stories for film, TV and high-impact documentary clients like Netflix, HBO, National Geographic and The New York Times. He combines documentary cinematography and motion design fluency to build narrative-driven visual systems, contributing to projects that premiered at Sundance and earned multiple News & Documentary Emmy Awards. A former IDEO interaction designer and UC Berkeley investigative reporting fellow, he blends design thinking with rigorous reporting instincts—letting empathy and visual systems guide technically demanding shoots across 20+ countries. Equally at home directing large crews or designing motion graphics, he’s known for turning complex social issues into intimate, visually arresting stories for global audiences.
14 years of coding experience
Fellow, Fellow at University of California, BerkeleyBS, Photojournalism, Information Studies, BS, Photojournalism, Information Studies at Syracuse University
Github Skills (4)
pastebin9
docker6
data-dashboard5
dashboard2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
steven-king/ebola-fight
Aug 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:31 commits in 13 days
ebolatrackingdata-dashboardepidemicdashboard
toptal/haste-server
Jan 2012 - Jan 2012
open source pastebin written in node.js
Contributions:3 commits in 13 days
node-jspastebindocker
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