What We Do
Aaron Kalischer-Coggins
(he/him)
DP, Producer, Director, Video Journalist, Editor, The Nature Conservancy
Washington D.C., District of Columbia
US
Available for Full Time
Available for Freelance
Open To Virtual Coffee
Documentary filmmaker pursuing stories at the intersection of humans and politics, the environment, tech, and culture.
About
Aaron is a documentary filmmaker and video journalist based in Washington, DC. He's passionate about telling engaging stories about humans and the environment, politics, tech, and culture. Aaron is currently a video producer at The Nature Conservancy, where he creates multichannel video content focused on TNC's work around halting climate change and biodiversity loss.
Previously Aaron produced short docs for The Hill, Discovery, and freelanced for CNN, AJ+, HuffPost, Facebook, Thrillist, Google, and many more. He also specialized in the production of VR/360 films for DiscoveryVR and production companies and media companies.
In 2015, he graduated from Wesleyan University with Honors in Film Studies.
Featured Work
The River Guards
This short documentary tells the story of the Housatonic River in Western Massachusetts, where an environmental and health crisis has unfolded over the past 30 years. The film profiles the community of grassroots activists who have fought tirelessly against corporate negligence and government bureaucracy to clean the river. Now, with a new and contentious cleanup plan for the Housatonic River on the table, they are faced with an uncertain future.
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How Detroit residents are building their own internet
Faced with a stark digital divide, Detroit community groups are mobilizing to build an internet network block by block.
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There are nearly 300 abandoned prisons littering the United States. One innovative program shows how turning them into sustainable farms can make them productive and help solve the incarceration crisis at the same time.
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Mapping Snow
How scientists are trying to help save people from avalanches and manage the effects of climate change from space
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