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Biography :: Paul Ginocchio |
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In 1998, Ginocchio founded August Productions, an Oakland based video production company. He produced, directed, and edited An Explorer's Journal , a first-person documentary about sharing his experiences of India with a 4-6th grade classroom of American students. This documentary won the award for creative excellence at the International Film and Video Festival in Chicago. From 1998-2000, Ginocchio worked at KRON-NBC television in San Francisco as a news photojournalist, editor, and producer. His professional television work included editing a special four-part series, Code 33-Coversations between Oakland Police Officers and At-Risk Youth and producing, shooting, and editing a "perspective on youth piece" about Oakland’s Destiny Arts Center. Ginocchio and two of the youths featured in the story were interviewed on NBC television after the piece was broadcast. During this time he also published a calendar of still photographs from his travels to Australia and his visit to the Punmu Aboriginal Community. In 2002, Ginocchio released his second documentary A Place Named Destiny. This documentary tells the story of an inspiring inner city after-school arts program that helps transform the lives of young people. A Place Named Destiny screened at many film festivals including the Lake Tahoe Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, Film Arts Festival, the International Children's Film Festival, and the International Film Festival for Youth. In 2004, Ginocchio produced and released People of Lake Merritt, a short documentary that celebrates the diversity of Oakland through character sketches of some fascinating people who work and spend time by Lake Merritt. Ginocchio’s other video work has included shooting and editing We are Salvadorans, a documentary about people who fled El Salvador’s Civil War in the 1980’s. He has produced promotional videos for the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company, the DREAM performance company, the Green Party, Oakland hip-hop slam poet Aya de León, and Oakland’s American Indian Child Resource Center. He shot and edited an educational “anti-bullying” video for Soul Shoppe, and an educational environmental video for Vaquera Productions and the City of Alameda. Ginocchio has also added his own unique documentary style into the production of many wedding videos, performance videos, and anniversary videos. |
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