Gopi Shastri

Experience

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  One World Broadcasting Trust / co-produced with University of London at Goldsmiths

  Apr 2006 - May 2006

  Director / Camera

  Salon Bombay: a touching and at times humorous romp through the burgeoning world of the male grooming obsession in Mumbai. 1 x 22 minutes (Hindi, English)

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  Half Yard Productions

  Feb 2008 - May 2008

  Field Producer

  Some Assembly Required (Season 2) Discovery Channel 11 x 12' Episodes: Rigid Inflatable Boats, Sourdough Bread, Peterbilt Trucks, Kayaks, Canoes, Cast Iron Cookware, Compound Bows, Ludwig Drums, Mattresses, Leatherman, Potato Chips

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  Michael Hoff Productions

  Jul 2008 - Aug 2008

  Writer

  Weird, True and Freaky (Season 1) Animal Planet Animal Cannibals 1 x 30' episode

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  Discovery Inc

  Sept 2008 - Jun 2009

  Field Producer

  Home Made Simple Season 5 & 6, TLC• 4 x 60 second Proctor & Gamble / Lowe’s commercial slots for TLC • 12 x 60 minute episodes -- Cast, managed client relationship between Discovery Studios and Proctor & Gamble, developed story points and project pitch documents, worked with talent to achieve episodic goals.

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  The Content Canning Company

  Sept 2008 - Sept 2010

  Field Producer / Camera

  Bonneville Salt Flats for international landspeed records with fastest vehicles in world.Mike Cook's Shootout 2008Ack Attack - Fastest Bike in the World 2010

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  Missarmia Productions

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2010

  Director / Camera

  Week long educational video curriculum learning science through movement• Won best DVD of 2010 from Creative Child Magazine• Recommended by Head Start, National Geographic Kids & National Science Teachers Association

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  Enlightened Media LLC

  Aug 2009 - Jun 2012

  Producer / Associate Director

  Bhutan: A Kingdom of Happiness

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  Hendricks Investment Holding

  Mar 2010 - Jul 2010

  Camera

  Live broadcast sideline field camera for Washington DC Freedom women’s professional soccer team 2010 Season with Olympic Gold Medalist Abby Wambach.

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  Tilotama Productions

  Jul 2010 - Aug 2010

  Director of Photography

  Roots of Love documentary profiling Sikh men and their relationship with the turban. • Doordarshan India • PBS• BBC

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  Percolate Digital LLC

  Jul 2011 - Mar 2012

  • 101 Gadgets That Changed the World - History Channel w/ Popular Mechanics Magazine (1 x 120)Interviews with: Wynton Marsalis, Buzz Aldrin, Jerry Weintraub, Dan Rather, OK Go & Buster Douglas, USMC, US Army• 101 Fast Foods That Changed the World - History Channel (1 x 120)Interviews with: Rob Wiedmaier, James Beard VP Mitchell Davis, Roy Choi, Spike Mendelsohn, Jose Andreas, US ArmyDiscovery 3Net (3 x 60)• 3D Cambodia - Angkor WatTalent driven, Elephants, weapons, Killing Fields, Monks, Aerials• 3D Easter Island - Assistant Camera (Panasonic AG-3DA1) Show less

  • Field Producer

    Dec 2010 - Mar 2012

  • Producer

    Jul 2011 - Sept 2011
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  Invisible War (2012)

  Oct 2011 - Oct 2011

  Additional Camera

  An Academy Award nominated and Sundance winning investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military.

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  Arcade Sunshine Media

  Jun 2012 - Nov 2012

  Producer

  Creative lead for Smithsonian Freer Sackler - Collecting Korea iPad app. Overseeing design and development. Content management.

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  HIV Story Project

  Jul 2012 - Jul 2012

  Field Producer

  Keep the Promise: The Global Fight Against AIDSDiverse array of voices profiling the global fight against AIDS. Interviews with Cornell West, Wyclef Jean, Margaret Cho, Tavis Smiley.

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  JWM Productions

  Jan 2013 - Feb 2013

  Field Producer

  PBS After Newtown: The Path to ViolenceTHE PATH TO VIOLENCE details a powerfully effective Secret Service program — the Safe School Initiative — that’s helped schools detect problem behavior. Is the country ready to have a national conversation about the balance between school safety and civil liberties that interventions — including gun control — require?

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  Part2 Pictures

  Mar 2013 - Oct 2013

  Field Producer

  Pitched, wrote treatments and field produced segments exploring the best of belief and spirituality around the world: Israel, Saudi Arabia; Nigeria, Burning Man, NASA.

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  National Geographic

  May 2014 - Nov 2015

  Pitching, budgeting and scripting: Uganda, Ethiopia, Turkey, Oman, Georgia, Mongolia. Follow two adventurers, Bill Schindler and Cat Bigney, for 35,000 miles — from the cradle of civilization to the New World — as they complete challenges. While retracing the migratory route of our ancestors, our competitors must overcome some of the same oppressive deserts, frozen tundra and intimidating jungles. Along the way, they face the same challenges early humans did: building weapons out of stone, starting fires, hunting for food, communicating with local tribes and more. It’s a journey of a lifetime — of all of our lifetimes. Show less Casting, shooting, directing: There is a hidden world where the most hardened, independent and obsessive individuals have made a choice to live in solitude. They are the lighthouse keepers, the night watchmen, the lone wolves who once lived among us but now are on solitary patrol against foes and predators, real and imagined. The Watch is their watch of the restless seas, the blackest skies and the phantom prowlers. And The Watch is our watch of them, thanks to surveillance cameras that follow their every move. The result is equal parts anthropology and a unique brand of psychological thriller. Show less

  • Producer

    Mar 2015 - Nov 2015

  • Senior Producer

    May 2014 - Feb 2015
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  Show of Force

  Jan 2016 - May 2016

  Consulting Producer

  Pitching, Casting, budgeting, explored co-productions and story development profiling the global refugee crisis: Syria, Greece, South Sudan, Kenya, El Salvador, Mexico. Los Commandos shortlisted for Academy Awards in short documentary category. Humanity on the Move #onthemoveFor the first time since WWII, the number of refugees, displaced people and forced migrants surpassed 50 million globally. UNHCR estimates this number will triple to 150 million in the next ten years. It’s critical for the world to turn its attention towards finding just solutions to this overwhelming and urgent challenge.Humanity on the Move will be one of those solutions. Show less

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  Ark Media

  Jun 2016 - Feb 2017

  Director / Producer

  Wrote scripts and directed segments: Reveal's the ancestries and family trees of prominent Americans: Ava DuVernay, Aziz Ansari, Lupita Nyong’o, Tea Leoni, Bryant Gumbel, Christopher Walken.

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  National Geographic

  Jul 2017 - Jul 2018

  Director / Senior Producer

  Pitched, developed and directed multiple segments for Explorer - including the dangers of environmental reporting in Cambodia, the search for new Nazca lines, conservation efforts for Australia's saltwater crocodiles, designer dog breeding, the potential cure for the antibiotic apocolypse may lie in dirt and the phenomenon known as superrecognizers.

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  CBS Interactive

  Apr 2019 - Apr 2019

  Producer

  Scouted, cast and filmed the effects of climate change in the aftermath of Nebraska floods with 5th generation farmers.

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  Critical Content

  Jun 2019 - Nov 2019

  Supervising Producer

  Copwatch America is a 10 episode, one-hour original verite docu-series about cop watchers, exposing the high-stakes and controversial dive into the men and women who are on the front lines fighting police brutality and injustice. This action-driven and character-centric series shines a light on America’s fearless and distinct cop watch crews with never-before-seen, unprecedented access to the frontline.

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  Al Jazeera America

  Oct 2019 - Nov 2019

  Senior Producer
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  Part2 Pictures

  Nov 2019 - Dec 2019

  Producer

  10 x 30 episodic Hulu series with Padma Lakshmi looks at culinary traditions of the first Americans to the latest immigrants, and follows the evolution of a traditional recipe in the hands of different families and waves of immigration that results in new approaches. Produced and directed 1 x 30 on Indigenous foodways with the Navajo and Apache communities.

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  CNN

  Dec 2019 - Jun 2020

  Senior Producer

  On the Trail: Inside the 2020 Primaries is a documentary feature that follows the lives of CNN's fearless female political reporters as they cover the most unpredictable presidential campaign in American history. This behind-the- scenes doc draws from unprecedented access to the campaign press corps and reveals how these powerhouse political reporters deal with the candidates as well as with the challenges of life on the road.

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  Muck Media

  Sept 2020 - Mar 2021

  Director

  TRAFFICKED with Mariana van Zeller is an original documentary series that explores the complex and dangerous inner-workings of the global underworld, black and informal markets. Each adventure follows Mariana on a mission to follow the chain of custody of trafficked goods, understand how to obtain the contraband, or see the 360-degree view of the trafficking world from the point of view of the smugglers, law enforcement and those caught in the crossfire.

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  Zero Point Zero Production Inc

  Sept 2021 - May 2022

  Director
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  PBS

  Jun 2023 - May 2024

  Producer