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Work History
Education
Skills
Timeline
Accomplishments
Affiliations
Awards
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Ahmed Elsheemy

Video Journalist / Producer / Filmmaker
Cairo, CAI
Ahmed Elsheemy

Summary

Innovative News Producer with thirteen years of experience in all aspects of video production.

Visionary creator, editor, storyteller and business operations manager with demonstrated to take an idea from concept to delivery to produce entertaining and inspiring pieces.

High record of commended performance as a war video journalist for global news companies.

Astute filmmaking professional successful at writing, directing and editing productions. Analytical and decisive leader with strong multitasking, planning and problem-solving abilities. Gifted communicator and diplomatic conflict manager.

Collaborative in working closely with strategic and creative teams to develop and produce quality video content.

Expertise in preproduction logistics, planning, production, custom graphics composition, special effects and asset management.


Overview

15
years of professional experience
4
years of post-secondary education
2
Languages

Work History

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Cairo and Middle East

Filmmaker and media consultant
10.2019 - Current

Job overview

  • Producing short documentaries with cinematic standards that cover activities of FAO projects across the region.
  • Deliver a swift consultancy to the communication department whenever needed.
  • Produce awareness animation videos in 2D and 3D.
  • Produce and deliver all formats of digital content.

The Associated Press | Global Media Services
Cairo

Senior News Producer
02.2015 - 06.2019

Job overview

  • Pitched News Ideas, in various fields like politics, sports, economy and feature stories, by which help reporters of AP to produce their daily packages for Clients.
  • Covered Breaking News events - as one-man-crew- and swiftly deliver video packages to AP's clients.
  • Managed news production with organized mindset, presenting cohesive sequences to audiences.
  • Coordinated with producers and on-air talent to create program content, new ideas and segments.
  • Conducted training and change management processes to improve operations.
  • Boosted audience numbers by enhancing marketing without exceeding budget targets.
  • Negotiated agreements between employees to clarify misunderstood directions and resolve conflicts affecting performance.
  • Reviewed and edited colleagues' scripts for improved flow and voice.
  • Liaised with Middle East Bureau Chief to organize and perform 15-day quality standard training for new and existing staff annually
  • Improved quality processes for increased efficiency and effectiveness plus increasing number of daily video news packages by 35%.
  • Delivered informative, relevant content by strategically managing stories and coverage.
  • Followed local events closely to immediately break interesting and critical stories.
  • Staged content on-site and on-location to professionally offer compelling news stories.
  • Planned video shoots in studio and remotely by managing production through stages to completion.
  • Verified factual accuracy of news stories to maintain viewer confidence.
  • Developed schedules for production, editing and duplication for timely delivery.
  • Realigned production schedules to factor in changing conditions such as materials shortages and evolving designs.
  • Presented production ideas and determined creative scenarios for production and delivery.

FUJI TELEVISION NETWORK, INC.
Cairo

Regional Video Journalist and War Zone Filmmaker
01.2014 - 01.2015

Job overview

  • Covered news events and made short documentaries from hot spots across 22 countries in Middle East as One-Man-Crew (pitching, scripting, creating storyboard, shooting, translate, make basic editing).
  • Produced and wrote news stories and pitches from Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Tanzania, Kenya, South Sudan, Turkey, Syria, Qatar, Lebanon, Jordan, Iran and Iraq.
  • Set up interviews, chosen shooting locations, investigated data from various sources, operating different types of camera (camcorder, DSLRs, Cinema lines), and creating short news packages suitable for immediate broadcasting.
  • Handled and set up different types of 4G Live Broadcasting devices (Live-U, TVU, Etc).
  • Arranged everything related to logistics from A-Z.
  • Sorted product and provided expertise on non-conforming product requirements.
  • Managed and archived quality documentation that helped me to be ready to fly at anytime to any destination across Middle East.
  • Worked on having all needed permits for shooting in Cairo and any other place.
  • Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
  • Handled all needed documentation with Authorities in Cairo by which helped in getting equipment passing in and out Cairo International Airport as easy as we could.
  • Developed team communications and information for meetings.

Anadolu News Agency
Cairo

Video Journalist
08.2013 - 01.2014

Job overview

  • Covered News Events in Cairo following the January 25th Uprising which ousted President Mubarak to Prison.
  • Produced 50 feature stories (Photography and Video) from different Egyptian governorates during only couple of months as One-Man-Crew.
  • Scripted and reported, in Arabic and English, to Cairo and Ankara news desks from different places in Cairo on protests and clashes broke out at that time between police forces and pro-Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators.
  • Developed, updated and maintained database of existing and potential contacts of highly important sources and experts.

Thomson Reuters News Agency
Cairo

News Producer and war journalist
01.2009 - 10.2013

Job overview

  • Coordinated coverage for upcoming events.
  • Fact-checked breaking news scripts before publishing on AVID INEWS
  • Followed and covered breaking news in Cairo and North Africa
  • Shot, produced videos as a war video journalist in Libya from 2011 to 2013 and delivered dozens of stories first-hand from frontlines.
  • Worked under pressure in partnership with text and pictures counterparts creating very strong team, especially during Egypt's January 25th revolution
  • Collected data from various sources to determine facts and opinions needed to build a strong structure for news packages and feature stories.
  • Went to local events to ask questions and provide detailed coverage.
  • Pitched long-form stories, planned and conducted research and writing of news stories, which been sent weekly to London HQ in a detailed "outlook"
  • Edited average of 7 spots each week using EDIUS.
  • Edited footage to create videos for multiple multimedia platforms.
  • Experienced and well-handled all types of BGAN devices during covering in Egypt's 25th revolution and also during Libya's February 17th civil conflict against Leader Muammar Gaddafi.
  • Led Reuters team in East of Libya and built and managed a stringers network from Benghazi City to Sirte.
  • Led Reuters team in Tripoli, Libya for longtime since 2011 to 2012.
  • Handled budgets of traveling and assignments in Cairo and Libya
  • Supervised Reuters' stringers, in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, Upper Egypt, Tunis, Libya including offering feedback and enforcing deadlines.
  • Covered sever clashes across Egypt's provinces from 2011 to 2013.
  • Delivered live feeds from hot spots via broadcast units.

  • SAMPLES OF MY WRITTEN NEWS STORIES: http://en.aswatmasriya.com/news/view.aspx?id=92ba12ce-b722-4f1a- 872df83873abb237 http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/01/ozatp-egypt-church- blastidAFJOE70000320110101 http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/16/libya-east-natoidAFLDE75F24420110616 http://ca.reuters.com/article/idCATRE7494R120110510

RUPTLY NEWS AGENCY
Cairo

Freelancer Video Journalist

Job overview

  • ENEX, IHA, PBS, Provided video news packages on breaking news and special events for Number of Global News Agencies Such as: Ruptly, ENEX, IHA, PBS, Arab 24.

MSA University
Cairo

Teaching Assistant
01.2007 - 01.2009

Job overview

  • Worked with individual students to provide personalized educational, behavioral and emotional support
  • Supported instructor with test administration, curriculum development and assignment grading
  • Supported student learning objectives through personalized and small group assistance
  • Completed and filed all necessary paperwork for classroom activities, including meal count sheets and attendance logs
  • Provided diverse assistance to teachers, including clerical support, classroom management and document coordination
  • Offered complete instructional support for students unable to attend regular classes
  • Enhanced learning plans and quantified student progress using quizzes, essays and projects
  • Distributed learning materials such as worksheets, textbooks and supplemental activities
  • Prepared teaching materials and set up audio-visual equipment for lead teacher
  • Tutored struggling students individually and in small groups to reinforce learning concepts
  • Participated in professional development opportunities and attended in-services and seminars.

Al-Masry Al-Youm Newspaper
Cairo

News Editor
01.2009 - 01.2001

Job overview

  • Transcript breaking news flashed by global news agencies from English to Arabic and send it swiftly to News Desk
  • Interviewed sources and developed relationships with informants to obtain vital information for stories
  • Reported to Editor-In-Chief about news articles for print, daily staff happenings and creation of company newsletter
  • Monitored breaking news for information on incidents, events and topics of interest to quickly assign coverage to staff
  • Sought out stories by pursuing other news organizations information periodically and either assigned or wrote stories according to strict timelines
  • Conducted editorial meetings with staff members to collaborate and review proposed publication suggestions
  • Edited footage to create videos for multiple multimedia platforms
  • Selected and updated stories and photos for homepage carousel.

Education

October 6 University
Cairo, Egypt

Bachelor of Arts from Faculty of Mass Communication Radio & Television
04.2003 - 05.2007

University Overview

Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt

Master of Arts from Political Communication Mass Communication
01.2018 - 01.2001

University Overview

Skills

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Timeline

Filmmaker and media consultant
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
10.2019 - Current
Cairo University
Master of Arts from Political Communication Mass Communication
01.2018 - 01.2001
Senior News Producer
The Associated Press | Global Media Services
02.2015 - 06.2019
Regional Video Journalist and War Zone Filmmaker
FUJI TELEVISION NETWORK, INC.
01.2014 - 01.2015
Video Journalist
Anadolu News Agency
08.2013 - 01.2014
News Producer and war journalist
Thomson Reuters News Agency
01.2009 - 10.2013
News Editor
Al-Masry Al-Youm Newspaper
01.2009 - 01.2001
Teaching Assistant
MSA University
01.2007 - 01.2009
October 6 University
Bachelor of Arts from Faculty of Mass Communication Radio & Television
04.2003 - 05.2007
Freelancer Video Journalist
RUPTLY NEWS AGENCY

Accomplishments

Accomplishments
  • SOME OF MY ASSIGNMENTS WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
  • AGENCY: (FILMING, EDITING AND SCRIPTING):
  • Egyptian Presidential Elections, Cairo, 2018- Covered Kenya Presidential Elections, Nairobi, 2016
  • Kirdasa clashes between security forces and Islamist militants in 2013 (as a freelancer)
  • Various demonstrations and protests held by Muslim Brotherhood in August 2013
  • (as a freelancer)
  • Clashes between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and riot police- Clearance of al-Nahda sit-in carried out by Egypt's armed forces and riot police 2013
  • (as a freelancer)
  • Various mass rallies organized by Muslim Brotherhood Supporters following the ouster of
  • President Morsi in al-Nahda and Rabaa al-Adawiea
  • The June 30 Uprising which ousted President Mohamed Morsi to Prison, 2013-
  • SOME OF MY ASSIGNMENTS WITH FUJI TELEVISION NETWORK: (FILMING, EDITING AND
  • SCRIPTING):- Egyptian Presidential Elections, 2014- Civil Conflict in Juba, South Sudan, 2014- Syrian Civil War, suburb of Gobar, Aleppo, Deir ez-Zor, Homs, Hama, Maalola, Qamishliin 2014- UN Refugees camps in Lebanon 2014- International Conference of World Heritage Cities, Doha 2014- Training Camps of Jihadists, Tunisian-Algerian borders, 2014-
  • SOME OF MY ASSIGNMENTS WITH REUTERS: (Filming, Editing and Writing) since 2009 till 2013
  • The hot air balloon crash in Luxor, February 26, 2013
  • The summit of the Organization of the Islamic Countries, held in Egypt February,2013
  • The Badrasheen rail crash, which killed 19 and injured hundreds in January 2013
  • The 2012 Egypt's presidential race
  • Egypt's transitional period under the military rule including the clashes between demonstrators and police forces in various places in and nearby Tahrir Square in2012
  • The trial of the ousted President Mubarak during 2012
  • The Port Said soccer disaster in Feb.2.20128
  • Scooped the first exclusive video all over the world in 2011, http://en.aswatmasriya.com/news/view.aspx?id=92ba12ce-b722-4f1a-872df83873abb237http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/01/ozatp-egypt-church-blastidAFJOE70000320110101http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/16/libya-east-natoidAFLDE75F24420110616http://ca.reuters.com/article/idCATRE7494R120110510, 1


Affiliations

Affiliations
  • Member of Cairo's Press Center for Foreign Media, 2009 -present
  • Member of Egyptian Press Syndicate, 2019-Present
  • Member of Egyptian Cinema Syndicate, 2019-Present

Awards

Awards
  • CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION FOR ALL ARTWORKS PRODUCTIONS OVER THE YEAR, FAO, CAIRO, 2021
  • VIDEO STORY OF THE YEAR, REUTERS TV, EGYPT JANUARY 25th REVOLUTION, CAIRO BUREAU 2013
  • PRESS SYNDICATE, EGYPT PRESS PHOTO OF THE YEAR, JURY MEMBER AWARD, 2014.
  • VARIOUS HONORARY AND APPRECIATION CERTIFACTES FOR THE ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

Awards

Awards
  • CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION FOR ALL ARTWORKS PRODUCTIONS OVER THE YEAR, FAO, CAIRO, 2021
  • VIDEO STORY OF THE YEAR, REUTERS TV, EGYPT JANUARY 25th REVOLUTION, CAIRO BUREAU 2013
  • PRESS SYNDICATE, EGYPT PRESS PHOTO OF THE YEAR, JURY MEMBER AWARD, 2014.
  • VARIOUS HONORARY AND APPRECIATION CERTIFACTES FOR THE ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

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Ahmed ElsheemyVideo Journalist / Producer / Filmmaker