RESUME

Konrad Aderer is a documentary filmmaker and video journalist based in New York City. Konrad’s independent documentaries have focused on resistance arising in immigrant communities targeted by “national security” detention and profiling. His documentary Resistance at Tule Lake was broadcast nationally on PBS WORLD Channel from 2018-2020. His 2011 feature documentary Enemy Alien, on the fight to free a post-9/11 detainee, was honored with a Courage in Media Award from Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Konrad has received grants from the Center for Asian American Media, New York State Council of the Arts, National Park Service, and other funders.

October 2014 - present
Documentary Producer / Editor
Resistance at Tule Lake
Produced and shot location footage and interviews. Wrote script and edited documentary at different lengths for festival and broadcast. Oversaw creation of deliverables for PBS national broadcast on WORLD channel in May 2018. Wrote proposals and budgets to secure grants from Center for Asian American Media, National Parks Service and New York State Council on the Arts. Wrote press releases and email campaigns. Created social media campaigns for engaging people in issues related to the film and the preservation of the site. Overseeing production of educational materials: supervising curriculum writers, editing and copy editing text, directing graphic design.

September 2013 – June 2018
News Producer-Editor
DeSales Media Group (show: Currents News)
Began as freelancer and was offered full time position. Reported, produced and edited segments for daily news program, turning them around within one day. Generated, researched and pitched stories on a range of topics including city politics, community affairs and religion. Produced special live coverage of 2016 NY Primary and Pope Francis arrival and departure in U.S.A. Wrote scripts and social media posts. Encoded video formats, posted to WordPress blog, and shared on social media.

June 2018 – July 2018
Videographer
The Washington Post
As two-person crew working with producer, directed all aspects of video shooting, including lighting, audio and camera. Consulted on story, characters, locations. Shot interviews, verité footage and b-roll for “Trump’s anti-immigrant tactics are eerily familiar to Japanese Americans.” and “They went to prison camps when they were young. Today, they're the resistance.”

January 2013 – March 2013
Producer-editor
CUNY Grad Center
Produced and shot live participatory webcast of classroom and public events for multi-disciplinary graduate seminar offered by the Graduate Center as part of JustPublics@365, a project funded by the Ford Foundation. Produced and edited short documentaries for Social Justice Sexuality Survey.

September 2008 – October 2012
Documentary Producer / Editor
Enemy Alien (Documentary, 2011, 81 minutes)
Producer-Director/DP/Editor: Documentary feature on Homeland Security detention case. Funded by The Fledgling Fund & New York State Council for the Arts. Winner of Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Courage in Media Award.

March 2010 – September 2013
Freelance News Producer-Editor
DeSales Media Group
Field produced news segments and edited them for broadcast. Studio and location cameraman for special live coverage, talk shows and NY Emmy Award-winning show “City of Churches.”

November 2009 – February 2010
Assistant Editor (Avid)
THIRTEEN/WNET: Bill Moyers Journal
On-call evening assistant editor on Avid Adrenaline system: logging & capturing, group clipping, outputs on DVD and digibeta.

June 2009 – September 2009
Producer-Editor
United Nations, Executive Office of the Secretary-General
Voices of the Vulnerable: Managed production of 10 short videos shot by UN field offices in Asia, Africa and Latin America; Downloaded through FTP & converted from formats including PAL. Edited videos, subtitling translations. Shot interview with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Created Flash outputs & wrote video text for website: voicesofthevulnerable.net

May 2009 & September 2010
Post-Production Supervisor
Pushing the Elephant, feature documentary produced by Arts Engine
Finalized FCP versions for public TV (ITVS) documentary, created broadcast deliverables for color correction & sound mix. Wrote transcripts with African language translators.

February 2009 & March 2010
Cameraman & Media Manager
THIRTEEN/WNET: Angelina Ballerina & other shows
Media management of P2 footage for 3 crews on location and studio greenscreen shoots with Panasonic AJ-HPX3000. Operated 2nd camera.

September 2005 – July 2006
A Corner of Her Eye
Documentary, 2006, 23 minutes
Producer-Director/DP/Editor: First-hand story of surviving Hurricane Katrina. Raised funds for hurricane survivors. Rooftop Films, NY; Magnolia Film Festival, MS.

March 2006 – November 2009
Associate Producer, Editor
Off Ramp Films
Field produced documentary and PSA shoots, edited client content for web and DVD distribution. Other tasks: documentary production sound, archival research, client contact, transcription, DVD authoring, database and administrative support. Client projects detailed below.

December 2007 – February 2008
Editor
Off Ramp Films, client: INFORM, Inc.
The Secret Life of Cell Phones: Short documentary on the environmental impact of cell phones, distributed on internet and DVD. Developed paper script, edited several drafts incorporating feedback from client personnel. Output in various formats using Compressor.

March 2005 – March 2006 & July 2007 – September 2007
Assistant Editor
Off Ramp Films, clients: ACLU, Sundance Channel, independent feature documentaries
Edited selects and rough scenes for feature documentaries. Edited videos for ACLU website democracysghosts.org, created slideshows; edited short videos and time-lapse sequence for a Sundance Channel promo.

January 2006 – September 2010
Field Producer, DP, Editor
Scholastic, Inc. • Huffington Post News • Asian American Arts Alliance  • RMJM Hillier • Kim Wendell Design •  Neoscape, Inc. •  The Seventh Art
News segments, short videos for web, communications and marketing.

July 2005 – November 2005
Field Producer
USAID
Shot verite footage and interviews for PSA on USAID-run eye clinic in Ghana. Produced shoot at Budumburam refugee camp. Logged & captured footage.

March 2005 – September 2005
Producer-Director/DP
Rising Up: The Alams (Documentary, 2005, 13 minutes): Funded by Open Society Institute. Story of Bangladeshi family fighting to stop father’s deportation. Screened at Brooklyn Academy of Music; Museum of Modern Art’s Documentary Fortnight, Anthology Film Archives.

November 2001 – July 2002
Producer-Director
Life or Liberty (Documentary, 2002, 8 minutes)  Screened at MOMA. Cinevue Jury Award 2002. Broadcast on Florida Education Channel and Free Speech TV. Purchased by several universities.

GRANTS/AWARDS
2015: CAAM Documentary Fund • Individual Artist Grant, Video, New York State Council for the Arts • 2014: Japanese American Confinement Site, National Parks Service  • 2012: Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Courage in Media Award • Pacific Asian Community Alliance Courage Award • Jason D. Mak Social Justice Award • 2009: The Fledgling Fund Creative Media Grant • 2007: New York State Council for the Arts; A.J. Muste Institute; Puffin Foundation; Urban Arts Initiative/NYC • 2006: Center for Asian American Media James Yee Fellowship • 2004: Rooftop Films Filmmaker Grant • 2003: Funding Exchange Media Distribution Grant; Manhattan Community Arts Fund grant; Cinevue Jury Award for Best Documentary

SKILLS
EDITING SYSTEMS: Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro 7 & Studio (editing, sound mixing, color correction, DVD Studio Pro), Avid Media Composer (logging/capturing). CAMERAS: Panasonic HVX200 & HPX170, Sony HVR-Z1U, Sony HDR-FX1, Panasonic HVX-200, Panasonic AJ-HPX3000. GRAPHICS: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, After Effects (currently training) OTHER: Soundtrack Pro

NON-PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE

October 2006 – March 2007
Medical Proofreader
WebMD
Full-time contract worker, proofread and copy edited American College of Physicians and American College of Surgeons books & newsletters.

March 2002 – May 2005
Presentation Graphics Specialist
JPMorgan Private Bank
Created presentations and corporate communications materials using Powerpoint, QuarkXPress, Photoshop and MS Word. Edited using Chicago Manual of Style.

February 2000 – July 2001
Writer/Researcher
WNYC: the Leonard Lopate Show
For premier arts & letters interview program. Researched subjects, wrote on-air intros and interview preps for Leonard Lopate. Greeted and played host to arriving guests.

EDUCATION/TRAINING
courses towards M.A. Sociology, Brooklyn College
Digital Design Certificate, Baruch College
Third World Newsreel Production Workshop
B.F.A. Drama, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU