Video Production
Sydney currently works as a freelance video editor with extensive experience using the Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere, After Effects, Audition, Animate, Photoshop, etc) as well as Avid Media Composer and DaVinci Resolve. She was a post-production assistant at Engel Entertainment as well as an editor for PKRG-TV, and she has produced and edited several videos for the Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation (CELF) in conjunction with Long Run Media.
Sydney has a Bachelor of Science in Digital Cinema & Filmmaking from Pace University where she graduated with a 4.0 GPA in her major, and was a member of the award-winning traveling documentary team PaceDocs. Sydney is highly skilled and experienced in all aspects of production; her greatest passion in life is creating digital media and sharing it with the world.
Hawaii: Living on the Edge in Paradise?
During the summer of 2018, hundreds of earthquakes shook the summit of Kīlauea, leading to the active volcano’s largest eruption in 200 years. Lava totaling 1 billion cubic yards—enough to fill at least 320,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools—inundated 13.7 square miles of the island, destroying 716 dwellings and covering 30 miles of road. For some residents it was catastrophic. Hawaiians see it as the goddess Pele’s way of creating new 'āina (land), 875 acres in total.
Kīlauea will erupt again, and PaceDocs filmmakers spent six days living in its shadow and gathering stories of faith, resilience, and unification. What they learned from the people of Hawaii is a lesson in the true spirit of Aloha.
