Available Now Have Camera, Will Travel
Email jake@developmentpictures.com
Phone +61 411 672 813
Skype messypanda
Address
220 Hyde St
Yarraville, Victoria 3013
Australia
Jake Simkin is a wandering Shooter/Producer who has come home after 15 years of being on the road having worked in the Middle East in the humanitarian and commercial sector.
Having studied and worked as a cinematographer, he formed a company called Dork Films and worked for the companies as a Producer, Director or as Cinematographer mainly in music videos.
Jake found a calling to travel and see the world and what it meant to be a human being on this earth after the Boxing Day Tsunami tragedy in 2004. He has been to most countries in Africa and the Middle East covering conflict.
Jake Simkin has worked for the UN and ICRC as a Communication Director and several NGOs as well as production companies setting up the better production teams and studios.
Later on he decided to work more as a freelance photojournalist covering the war in Syria, Iraq and working more as a shooter producer for documentary productions.
He now returns home to Melbourne where he uses his life skills to be a much better story teller in books, films and in media content work. If he is not working you will usually find him tinkering on motorbikes and or hiking trips.
Clients
UNDP
ICRC
MSF
Care
Nemean Clothing
Oxford Street Garage
Skateistan
Kustom Kommune
Harley Davidson
Royal Enfield
Skills
Drone photography
RED Komodo
Leica
Experience
Creative Fuel
Lead Content Creator
Global
Creative Fuel is a content creating company that works with branding and content creation for celebrities and companies.
Aaron Sansoni Group
Videographer
Australia
Aaron Sansoni is an Entreprenuer, Global Business Mentor having amassed over 80+ businesses
Adventure Machine
Vlog Content Creator
The World · June 2018 – Present
Video Blog on Moto Travelling the world.
Shroeder Productions
Shooter Producer – The Fighting Season
Afghanistan · 2014 – 2015
Shooter / Producer on a six part tv series for Direct TV and Netflix on America’s longest war overseas in Afghanistan and the troop draw down.
United Nations Development Programme
Communications Director
Kabul, Afghanistan · 2009 – 2010
Directed video and worked on capacity building with media staff of UNDP’s program NABDP with the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development.
Development Pictures
Producer / Cinematographer
Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, Kenya, Sth Sudan, Syria · 2011 – Present
Producer of television, commercial and corporate videos for humanitarian and development aid agencies as well as corporate clients.
Education
AFTRS
Cinematography
Sydney, Australia · 2000 – 2001
Learnt everything about cameras and cinematography
Exhibitions
| 2023 | Head On Fesitival (Group), Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia
Exhibited photos from my Afghanistan Taliban collection |