RESUME: Click Here to view full CV OR Click Here to view full work history
PDF WORK SAMPLES (MEDIA AND BOOK ART): download
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beckybeamer/
Additional Video Work Samples (private links listed below each project):
VIMEO SITE: https://vimeo.com/beckybeamer
PSYCAP
https://youtu.be/SxKnJZQ6F2Q
TRT: 11 minutes
Media: Digital Video - Independent
Position: Producer, Shooter & Editor
Year: Aug 2019
English & Arabic / English Subtitles
*Received Faculty Research Grant from American University of Sharjah for completion and highlighted by Migration Studies and Migrant Integration Lab- Sustainable Solutions*
The Syrian conflict caused a rapid and intense human migration. In early 2016, the Jordanian government announced that it would pursue a unique refugee hosting model in hopes to transform its largest refugee camp, Zaatari, into a self-sufficient and sustainable semi-permanent city. Exposure to sustained conflict impacts the psychological capital and long term performance of entrepreneurial ventures. The investigators embed themselves into the Zaatari community to spend time with entrepreneurs who fled crisis and decided to start a new business. Through the collection of personal narratives and field surveys, the PI, Dr. Gleason and the Co-PI, Ms. Beamer investigate the impact of the psychological capital of refugees in the Zaatari camp on the performance of entrepreneurial ventures indicating a process of transformation from aid-dependence to self-sufficiency. The goal of highlighting “transformative entrepreneuring” is to benefit camp residents, the host community, and nation. Interviews and surveys with these refugees expose the narratives that can indicate the influence of policy, aid, and outsiders on the specialized refugee Zaatari camp.
AMINAH
https://vimeo.com/251022905
TRT: minutes
Media: Digital Video - Independent
Position: Producer, Shooter & Editor
Year: Jan. 2019
Arabic / English Subtitles
* Film received Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation, Policy & Research Division, Film Grant *
Aminah is a dialog between a poet, a critic, and an emirate. It is an experimental biography of poet Ahmad al Assam who has lived his entire life in Ras Al Khaimah. Ride along with Ahmad al Assam as he shares the intimate spaces around Ras Al Khaimah that have inspired his discourse on family, loss, love, and country. The environment, culture, and people are the catalysts for his poems that depict a greater narrative on the inevitable, change. The poet shares his stories in verse and prose. View Ras Al Khaimah from the sky, hear the words that are echoed in the sea, and feel the passion of critic, Dr. Haitham Yehia Al-Khawajah, who refused to give up on the importance of poetry to Ras Al Khaimah and to the region. Aminah is the latest documentary short film from artist Becky Beamer.
Everything We Touch: DUBAI
https://vimeo.com/251022905
TRT: 4 minutes
Media: Digital Video - Independent
Position: Producer, Shooter & Editor
Year: 2018
This is a short documentary by Becky Beamer highlighting the art installation work of Paula Zuccotti
during Dubai Design Week in November 2017. Her work explores the cultures that make up Dubai,
using everyday artifacts as the storytellers, and examining the similarities and differences of these
objects. Paula’s art of future archeology reflects on the customs, traditions and behaviors of the
different people and cultures of Dubai through the physical footprint of the objects they interact
with in a day.
WARD B12
https://youtu.be/F46AUWO1wPQ
Film Trailer: https://vimeo.com/206996681
TRT: 23 min
Media: Digital Video – Independent
Position: Producer, Shooter & Editor
Year: 2017
This film offers a hyper-realistic behind-the-scenes view of the low cost labor ward, B12, at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia. Follow patients, doctors, caregivers, and midwives as their days intersect and unfold into a powerful narrative about determination, strength, life, and loss. The film highlights the need for improvements in women’s healthcare and the powerful personal narratives that beat all odds.
NAMIBIAN CRAFT: THE UNKNOWN & THE OUTSIDERS.
https://youtu.be/m9pssT5BUUs
TRT: 17 minutes
Media: Digital Video / 24p / 1080 HD
Platform: Grant Based Project, Online & Film Festivals
Credit: Producer, Editor, and 2nd Camera
Year: 2016
This video tackles the complications in Namibia’s indigenous craft culture and the influence of outsiders on this art. This video was presented in an exhibition of the same name and also shown at special viewings with an Artist Talk. It won the University of Alabama's most prestigious graduate award 2014-15: Graduate Council Fellowship & Creative Grant. The project as a whole involved educational materials, exhibition design, a Kickstarter campaign, photography, sculptures, a documentary and physical artifacts.
DETOURS
https://vimeo.com/61295869
TRT: 30 sec – 2 min x Ongoing Series
Media: Digital Video / 24p / 1080 HD
Credit: 20 mini-episodes Shooter/Producer/Editor, & Student Advisor, 19 completed
Platform: Cable Television Series, Alabama Public Television & The Center For Public Television
Year: 2012 - 2014
This is a series of shorts in which I produced/shot/edited segments and won a SE Regional EMMY for its production. The sample is called Tree Bank. The tree bank was developed to re-establish natural resources after a devastating tornado. The link is for the series in which I also mentored several students to work on elements of production as well.
ALABAMA LIFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvmB8Fqs2Y0
TRT: 25 min x Series 11 episode
Media: Digital Video / 24p / 1080 HD
Credit: Series Producer & Shooter / Editor 5 Episodes
Platform: Cable Television Series, Alabama Public Television
& The Center For Public Television
Year: 2012 - 2014
This select segment highlights the capabilities and humanity in organ transplantation at UAB hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. Get a behind the scenes look into the surgical room and procedures around this life saving donation from one father to his daughter.
TASIA & THE CHEESE REVOLUTION
https://vimeo.com/77247484
TRT: 9 minutes
Media: Digital Video / 24p / 1080 HD
Platform: Alabama Public Television, Online & Film Festivals
Credit: Shooter/Producer & Editor
Year: 2014
This link is to the award winning documentary short. Tasia Malakasis is the unexpected hero spearheading Alabama's cheese revolution with her versatile goat cheese - Belle Chevre. Both her and the cheese are sexy and smart.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC REEL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h79SLpJ6qyA
TRT: 3 min
Media: Digital Video – National Geographic Channel
Credit: Various - Field Producer, Series Coordinating Producer, and B Camera Operator
Year: 2003 - 2008
These clips highlight the type of work I completed while working with National Geographic. I was a field producer and second camera for the highlighted programs.
Blogging Work Samples:
National Geographic Blog - Voices for Wildlife - Dec.01, 2016 : Understanding the Mystery of the World’s Largest Mammal Migration
National Geographic Blog - Voices for Wildlife- Dec. 07, 2016. : How to Catch a Bat
Doc&aDrink Blog- Watch a documentary, grab a drink.- 2009 to Current: Film Review "Gates of Heaven"
PDF WORK SAMPLES (MEDIA AND BOOK ART): download
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beckybeamer/
Additional Video Work Samples (private links listed below each project):
VIMEO SITE: https://vimeo.com/beckybeamer
PSYCAP
https://youtu.be/SxKnJZQ6F2Q
TRT: 11 minutes
Media: Digital Video - Independent
Position: Producer, Shooter & Editor
Year: Aug 2019
English & Arabic / English Subtitles
*Received Faculty Research Grant from American University of Sharjah for completion and highlighted by Migration Studies and Migrant Integration Lab- Sustainable Solutions*
The Syrian conflict caused a rapid and intense human migration. In early 2016, the Jordanian government announced that it would pursue a unique refugee hosting model in hopes to transform its largest refugee camp, Zaatari, into a self-sufficient and sustainable semi-permanent city. Exposure to sustained conflict impacts the psychological capital and long term performance of entrepreneurial ventures. The investigators embed themselves into the Zaatari community to spend time with entrepreneurs who fled crisis and decided to start a new business. Through the collection of personal narratives and field surveys, the PI, Dr. Gleason and the Co-PI, Ms. Beamer investigate the impact of the psychological capital of refugees in the Zaatari camp on the performance of entrepreneurial ventures indicating a process of transformation from aid-dependence to self-sufficiency. The goal of highlighting “transformative entrepreneuring” is to benefit camp residents, the host community, and nation. Interviews and surveys with these refugees expose the narratives that can indicate the influence of policy, aid, and outsiders on the specialized refugee Zaatari camp.
AMINAH
https://vimeo.com/251022905
TRT: minutes
Media: Digital Video - Independent
Position: Producer, Shooter & Editor
Year: Jan. 2019
Arabic / English Subtitles
* Film received Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation, Policy & Research Division, Film Grant *
Aminah is a dialog between a poet, a critic, and an emirate. It is an experimental biography of poet Ahmad al Assam who has lived his entire life in Ras Al Khaimah. Ride along with Ahmad al Assam as he shares the intimate spaces around Ras Al Khaimah that have inspired his discourse on family, loss, love, and country. The environment, culture, and people are the catalysts for his poems that depict a greater narrative on the inevitable, change. The poet shares his stories in verse and prose. View Ras Al Khaimah from the sky, hear the words that are echoed in the sea, and feel the passion of critic, Dr. Haitham Yehia Al-Khawajah, who refused to give up on the importance of poetry to Ras Al Khaimah and to the region. Aminah is the latest documentary short film from artist Becky Beamer.
Everything We Touch: DUBAI
https://vimeo.com/251022905
TRT: 4 minutes
Media: Digital Video - Independent
Position: Producer, Shooter & Editor
Year: 2018
This is a short documentary by Becky Beamer highlighting the art installation work of Paula Zuccotti
during Dubai Design Week in November 2017. Her work explores the cultures that make up Dubai,
using everyday artifacts as the storytellers, and examining the similarities and differences of these
objects. Paula’s art of future archeology reflects on the customs, traditions and behaviors of the
different people and cultures of Dubai through the physical footprint of the objects they interact
with in a day.
WARD B12
https://youtu.be/F46AUWO1wPQ
Film Trailer: https://vimeo.com/206996681
TRT: 23 min
Media: Digital Video – Independent
Position: Producer, Shooter & Editor
Year: 2017
This film offers a hyper-realistic behind-the-scenes view of the low cost labor ward, B12, at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia. Follow patients, doctors, caregivers, and midwives as their days intersect and unfold into a powerful narrative about determination, strength, life, and loss. The film highlights the need for improvements in women’s healthcare and the powerful personal narratives that beat all odds.
NAMIBIAN CRAFT: THE UNKNOWN & THE OUTSIDERS.
https://youtu.be/m9pssT5BUUs
TRT: 17 minutes
Media: Digital Video / 24p / 1080 HD
Platform: Grant Based Project, Online & Film Festivals
Credit: Producer, Editor, and 2nd Camera
Year: 2016
This video tackles the complications in Namibia’s indigenous craft culture and the influence of outsiders on this art. This video was presented in an exhibition of the same name and also shown at special viewings with an Artist Talk. It won the University of Alabama's most prestigious graduate award 2014-15: Graduate Council Fellowship & Creative Grant. The project as a whole involved educational materials, exhibition design, a Kickstarter campaign, photography, sculptures, a documentary and physical artifacts.
DETOURS
https://vimeo.com/61295869
TRT: 30 sec – 2 min x Ongoing Series
Media: Digital Video / 24p / 1080 HD
Credit: 20 mini-episodes Shooter/Producer/Editor, & Student Advisor, 19 completed
Platform: Cable Television Series, Alabama Public Television & The Center For Public Television
Year: 2012 - 2014
This is a series of shorts in which I produced/shot/edited segments and won a SE Regional EMMY for its production. The sample is called Tree Bank. The tree bank was developed to re-establish natural resources after a devastating tornado. The link is for the series in which I also mentored several students to work on elements of production as well.
ALABAMA LIFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvmB8Fqs2Y0
TRT: 25 min x Series 11 episode
Media: Digital Video / 24p / 1080 HD
Credit: Series Producer & Shooter / Editor 5 Episodes
Platform: Cable Television Series, Alabama Public Television
& The Center For Public Television
Year: 2012 - 2014
This select segment highlights the capabilities and humanity in organ transplantation at UAB hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. Get a behind the scenes look into the surgical room and procedures around this life saving donation from one father to his daughter.
TASIA & THE CHEESE REVOLUTION
https://vimeo.com/77247484
TRT: 9 minutes
Media: Digital Video / 24p / 1080 HD
Platform: Alabama Public Television, Online & Film Festivals
Credit: Shooter/Producer & Editor
Year: 2014
This link is to the award winning documentary short. Tasia Malakasis is the unexpected hero spearheading Alabama's cheese revolution with her versatile goat cheese - Belle Chevre. Both her and the cheese are sexy and smart.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC REEL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h79SLpJ6qyA
TRT: 3 min
Media: Digital Video – National Geographic Channel
Credit: Various - Field Producer, Series Coordinating Producer, and B Camera Operator
Year: 2003 - 2008
These clips highlight the type of work I completed while working with National Geographic. I was a field producer and second camera for the highlighted programs.
Blogging Work Samples:
National Geographic Blog - Voices for Wildlife - Dec.01, 2016 : Understanding the Mystery of the World’s Largest Mammal Migration
National Geographic Blog - Voices for Wildlife- Dec. 07, 2016. : How to Catch a Bat
Doc&aDrink Blog- Watch a documentary, grab a drink.- 2009 to Current: Film Review "Gates of Heaven"
