Ray Whitehouse

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Independent Filmmaker and Cinematographer

Washington D.C., District of Columbia US

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Ray Whitehouse (he/him) works at the intersection of documentary film and journalism.

About

After growing up in Chicago, he lived in San Antonio, Texas, before moving to Washington, D.C. He is currently directing his first feature-length documentary, A RUN FOR MORE. He served as the second unit DP on TO THE END, directed by Rachel Lears, which premiered at Sundance in 2022. BRING THEM HOME, a documentary short he co-directed and DP’d, premiered at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in 2022. He was part of the Washington Post team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for reporting about the Capitol insurrection and its aftermath. He’s worked as a cinematographer on more than 20 documentary features and filmed, produced and edited projects for The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, and Univision, among others. He is community coordinator for the D.C. chapter of Video Consortium and a regional co-chair of the Documentary Producers Alliance. He holds an M.A. in documentary journalism from UNC Chapel Hill and a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University. The core tenets of his practice are transparency, collaboration and critical reflexivity.

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