Documentary Filmmaker, Editor, and Class A Driver

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EDUCATION

Phoenix Truck Driving School Phoenix, Arizona

Class A Driver’s License

Earned Class A Driver’s License after 180 hours of training and exams.

Rhode Island College Outreach Program Providence, Rhode Island

Bookkeeping and Accounting Clerks (CX TRABAC) Certification

European Union Script Writing Workshop Accra, Ghana

Cultural Initiative Support Program Certificate in Script Writing

University of Ghana – National Film and Television Institute Accra Ghana

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television Production (concentration in Animation)

EXPERIENCE

All American Outdoor Living

Lead Driver

•Responsibilities include driving and delivering furniture, patio design, customer service, and working as a team.

Balanced Livity

Cinematographer and post-production editor

•Cinematographer and post-production editor on the short-form documentary film, Balanced Livity for director, Shamara Wyllie Alhassan. Upon completion the film will be archived with The Crossroads Project: Black Religious Histories, Communities, and Cultures, which is funded by the Henry Luce Foundation at Princeton University and directed by Judith Weisenfeld, Anthea Butler, and Lerone Martin.

Hamza Alhassan LLC

Small Business Owner

•Started my small business buying and selling goods from home.

Rastafari Women’s Intellectual History and Activism in the Pan-African World Project

Documentary filmmaker, Post-Production Editor and Research Associate

•Cinematographer in Ghana, Ethiopia, and Jamaica – filming individual interviews and events, coordinating logistics for travel, organizing itineraries for interviews, and identifying locations amenable for shooting the film, post-production editing using primarily Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro.

Officially invited to film and document the November 2017 All Africa Rastafari Gathering in Shashamane, Ethiopia, and shoot individual interviews with research participants. The All-Africa Rastafari Gathering was the first continental African Rastafari conference with delegates from all over Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, North America, and South America. We were the only documentation team invited to document the conference proceedings.

Filmed the 2017 Rastafari Symposium in Ghana and individual interviews with research participants. The two-hour Rastafari Symposium is an annual event featuring a keynote and panel discussions on several topics and themes.

Filmed the 2017 Center for Reparations Launch at the University of the West Indies – Mona campus in Jamaica. Given clearance to film the proceedings of the launch of the first center for reparations research in the Caribbean.

Filmed the 2017 Rastafari Reggae Rootz Festival in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and individual interviews with participants.

This project is in post-production with over 500 hours of film and will result in a feature-length documentary film

PepsiCo

DOT Classified Driver.

•Responsibilities include driving, loading, offloading, and stocking products with excellent customer service.

Werner Enterprises, Inc

CDL Class A Truck Driving

•Drove across the country in all weather conditions hauling goods over the road.

Balance: A Grounding with My Sisters. Documentary Short film. 2019. (11 minutes)

•Cinematographer and Post-Production Editor on this documentary short film archived with Brown University as a companion to the director, Shamara Wyllie Alhassan’s dissertation in the Department of Africana Studies.

Coca-Cola

Warehouse Worker

•Responsible for unloading and loading freight shipments.

•Responsible for stocking and inventory

•Forklift operator

Pepsi

Warehouse Worker

•Responsible for unloading and loading freight shipments.

• Responsible for stocking and inventory

•Forklift operator

Lowe's

Unload Associate

•Responsible for unloading all freight shipments.

•Responsible for stocking

Picky Picky Picky

Direct sales floor representative

•Served the population of Eureka, CA

•Conducted inventory, processed, and stocked all store products.

Kohl's Department Store

Direct sales floor presentative

•Served the population of Eureka, CA

Infinity Shoes

Direct sales floor representative

Conducted inventory for over 5,000 shoes.

Assisted the dispersion of shoes to various store locations.

Served the population of Manhattan, New York.

New Hope Academy Charter School

Muralist

•Painted 10 murals depicting the New York landscape, science, technology, and children on the walls in classrooms and public hallways at New Hope Academy Charter School in Brooklyn, New York.

Logan Business Concepts Inc.

Direct sales field representative

•Verizon Fios product advertising and marketing

•Served the population of Jamaica, South Ozone Park, and Richemont Hills, Queens, New York

Battle for Discovery Accra, Ghana, West Africa

Reality Television winner

•Contestant on a reality television show in Ghana, which was a prototype of the Amazing Race television show in the United States. Using ingenuity, tenacity, and social strategy I emerged as the winner out of a group of 12 people who needed to complete specific tasks in different regions of Ghana quickly and efficiently.

Awodie Re-membering The Womb. Dir. Shamara Wyllie Alhassan. Yvontrev Productions, 2009. Documentary Film. (1 hour and 7 minutes).

Contracted as cinematographer, editor, sound mixer, and color correction for the first feature-length film about Rastafari women in Ghana.

W.E.B. Dubois Center for Pan-African Culture Accra, Ghana, West Africa

Project and Programs Director

•Developed and organized over 120 programs and events serving over 10,000 people in the Greater Accra geographic region.

•Events programmed (debates, community outreach, lecture series, among other social events).

•Advertised, filmed, and photographed over 120 events.

•Contracted by the US Embassy to film a project about child trafficking in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

African American Association of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, West Africa

Programs Director, Office Administrator

•Served as an informational resource for the African American repatriate community in Ghana.

•Organized and facilitated over 100 events.

• Served as a principal organizer for the Barak Obama campaign in Ghana.

•Provided media coverage for over 100 events.

SKILLS

Event Planning

•Five years of event planning experience African American Association of Ghana and WEB DuBois Center for Pan-African Culture

•Coordinating logistics and travel itineraries for large and small groups, executing the vision of clients for cultural events, and expertise in hospitality and tourism, strong communication skills

Public Speaking

•Invited Presentation on Ghana, West Africa for West African Writers in the Political Kingdom undergraduate course taught by Dr. Anani Dzidzienyo in the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University in Spring 2016

Media Production Experience

•Trained at the National Institute for Film in Television at the University of Ghana

•Created Fiction, Documentary, Animated Feature and Short Films

•Skilled in Directing, Cinematography, Editing, and Sound Recording on Set

• Trained in 2D Animation.

•Still and Motion-picture Photography

• Skilled in Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, EDIUS, Adobe Premiere Element Photoshop - Art 12

Acting Experience

•Two years of acting experience for student productions.

Bookkeeping Experience

•Internship at the Department of Children Youth and Family in Providence, RI

Community Organizing Experience

National Organizer

Youth Ending Hunger (The Hunger Project) in Accra, Ghana, West Africa

•Supervised and organized community-building activities surrounding hunger awareness in second-cycle institutions as a peer educator.

Direct Sales Experience

•Skilled in customer service, inventory, and stocking

Professional Driving Experience

Class A CDL license for long-distance and short-distance truck driving and hauling goods across geographic regions, volatile weather conditions, and offloading goods to diverse corporations.

PERSONAL

I was born and raised in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. I speak 15 languages: English,

basic Arabic, basic French, Housa, Fanti, Twi, Akuapim Twi, Ewe, Gaa, Basawre,

Chamba, Krobo, Ada, Fra Fra, and Dagomba

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