Lead   Instructor
Aron  Ranen

Aron Ranen is an Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Video Journalist, Professional Cameraperson and a Corporate Video Producer/Director. 

His films are carried by NETFLIX  and have screened around the world, including at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC..and have also been used as "Samples" on a NINE INCH NAILS SONG 

Link to Review of his documentary screening at Museum of Modern Art in NYC. 
http://www.villagevoice.com/2000-02-08/film/the-dark-side-of-the-moon-landing/

Ranen's documentary DEATH ROW ART STAR was 
1 of 10  selected to compete for best short at IDFA http://www.idfa.nl/industry/tags/project.aspx?id=4ae1b346-419d-4f5d-916a-b3134ae9cef4
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Aron Ranen is currently a Videojournalist for Reuters News Agency , The Associated Press and Agence France Presse (AFP)   Cameraperson, Producer, and Editor, plus Broadcast live with Liveu equipment.

Link to his Reuters Video Journalist Demo Reel

He worked for three years in a row as Clint Eastwood's documentary cameraman on Jazz Documentaries.

Corporate Clients have included: Bank of America, Google, Telecare, Intuit,  Hewitt Associates,  Jones Lange Lasalle,  Rodan + Fields,  Teladata,  Berkshire Hathaway, National Portable Storage Association, 
GoGrid, Equinix Data Centers, Loral Space Systems.

Ranen's Documentaries on Youtube have over 2.2 Million Views .  He is currently at work on new documentary projects, and produces enterprise shorts for The Associated Press and AJ+

He has been teaching video workshops for over Twenty Years.  Link to testimonials

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At DVworkshops Ranen has trained members of the US NAVY Combat Camera Group , plus employees of The National Security Agency, Kaiser Permanente, Verizon, ExxonMobil, IABC, Kroger, Midmark, Minolta, Chobani, Cisco, Google, Apple, Jeld-Wen, ThomsonReuters, Rice Lake,  KPIX CBS,  Lubrizol, The Veterans Administration, West Marine, Northrop Grumman, Lance Camper, NATAS, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, FBI, Metro Dade Fire department, National University, UC Davis, U of Texas, Corbis, The City of West Hollywood, Long Beach Transit, Los Angeles Unified School District, America's Got Talent,The Bachelor, Dirty Jobs and the First Peoples of Alaska and Canada.
 
Giving back to the community is important to us at Dvworkshops.
Link to Pro-Bono Projects " BUS 24" (at-risk kids)  and YearUp.org 

Bus 24 article in San Francisco Chronicle http://articles.sfgate.com/2003-10-26/movies/17512746_1_youth-culture-19th-film-arts-festival-pacific-heights 
YearUp.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAHoGX3ty1

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Awards + Grants

• 2 Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
• Commission from the State of Ohio
• Grant from PBS  WGBH Foundation
• Commission from the Long Beach Museum of Art

• Selected for the 2000 "New Documentary Series" at the Museum of Modern Art NYC
• 1 of 10 Documentaries selected to compete for best short at  2005 IDFA

• Selected for the 2006 San Francisco Independent Film Festival
• Winner Best Documentary 2004 Idaho international Film Festival
• Selected for 2004 San Francisco International Film Festival  
• Selected for the 2003 Festival of Independent Cinema 
• Selected for the 2004 San Francisco Documentary Festival 
• Selected for the 2002' Tiburon film festival 
• Selected for the 2002' New Port Beach film festival 
• Winner best short documentary 2002' San Francisco Independent film festival 
• Selected for the 1989 Berlin Film Festival, 
• Selected for the 1988 World Wide Video Festival (Holland), 
• Honorable mention 1987 Atlanta Film Festival, 
• Selected for the Exhibition 1987 The New Museum of Art, NYC, 
• Selected for the 1986 World Wide Video Festival (Holland), 
• Selected for the 1986 National Video Festival (American Film Institute),
• One of Ten Juried Selections 1984 San Francisco Video Festival,
• Honorable Mention 1984 Atlanta Film Festival, 
• Northeast Winner Documentary 1983 National Video Festival (American Film Institute)
• 1981 Honorable Mention American Film Festival NYC 

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