These projects use video to put scientists in context: their work, their environments, their motivations, and the communities their research touches. They are small-footprint documentary pieces built around interviews, active research spaces, and the details that make specialized work feel human without flattening the science.
Most were produced with compact gear, limited setup time, and real-world constraints: active labs, conference schedules, travel logistics, available light, and subjects who had actual work to do. That constraint became part of the style: direct, portable, attentive, and grounded in the place where the story was happening.
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A scientist profile filmed at Georgia Tech, this piece highlighted Manu Platt’s work in biomedical engineering, sickle cell anemia research, and diversity in the life sciences. The goal was to make the science personal without making it simplistic: a portrait of the researcher, the research environment, and the larger human stakes behind the work.
Filmed on location at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, this lab tour series highlighted LMIC student-scientists and active research environments with a small portable kit and no advance location scout. It remains one of the most rewarding projects in this body of work because the setting, the people, and the purpose all mattered.
Filmed onsite during the Keystone Symposia meeting Framing the Response to Emerging Virus Infections at the University of Hong Kong, this profile featured Eugenia Ong’s work in emerging infectious disease research and viral immunology. The piece was built around the immediacy of the setting: a scientist speaking about outbreak response, immune dynamics, and public health from within the global research community actively working on those questions.
