Lex Fletcher - Filmmaker Videos & Photos Global Experience 7 Continents
San Francisco Bay Area
Lex Fletcher - Born to Shoot™ -
My experience
"I've traveled the world and the seven seas" - Award winning cinematographer, documentary filmmaker, and still photographer. I've been around the world shooting videos and still images for broadcast television, corporations, tech industry and nonprofit organizations for many years.
Projects includes everything from quick, small web projects to hour-long broadcast documentaries, and every conceivable thing in between.
Education
Stanford University, Master of Arts, Communications, Film Broadcasting
California State University, Sonoma, BA Sociology
California State University, Sonoma, BA Art, Cinematography
Awards
Two National Daytime Emmy Awards for Cinematography and nominated for a 3rd Emmy.
( Disney Channel ).
Many projects have won numerous awards & recognition from Film & Video festivals.
Distinguished Alumni Award Sonoma State University.
Lex Fletcher - Born to Shoot™
What I do
Independent award-winning cameraman with experience in video and photo projects for a wide variety of clients. Many video projects for Apple, Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Disney.
Also projects for Google, (CIA) Culinary Institute of America - Worlds of Flavor International Conference and Festival, Teva Pharmaceutical, Sephora, Bare Escentuals and CSI ( Computer and Structures, Inc.) and many independent documentary films & videos.
Broadcast
Cameraman for various stories including documentaries, tech, news, travel and sports.
CNN's first cameraman based in San Francisco covering the Northwestern United States.
Past Press Pass media credentials for the U.S. presidential election.
Camera work has been seen on: NBC, ABC, PBS, CNN, MTV, ESPN, Hallmark, Showtime, Disney, National Geographic, Al Jazeera, Discovery Channel, Amazon Prime.
Corporate
Accel Partners, Accenture, AOL-Time Warner, Apple Computer, Applied Material, AT&T, Autodesk, Banana Republic, Bank of America, Bare Escentuals, Bechtel, Bio-rad Laboratories, Broad Street, The California Parks Companies, Chevron USA, Cisco Systems, Citigate, Crux Biomedical, Cunningham, Computers & Structure, Cookin-Up, Credit Suisse First Boston, Culinary Institute of America, EPRI, Esurance, The Gap, General Electric, Google, Hewlett-Packard, I-motors, Intel, IVN, Marine World Africa USA, Marriott Corp., Microsoft, Monsanto, Oracle, Palo Alto Medical Clinic, PayPal, Phillips, Potomac Electric Power Company, Reader's Digest, RSA Data Security, Roche, SBC, Sephora, Southern California Edison, Sequoia Capital, SRI, Stanford Children's Hospital, Stanford Micro Devices, Stanford University,
Sun Microsystems, Sunset Magazine, Sony Playstation, Tandem Computers, Teva, Unilever, Verifone, Verizon Wireless, Vulcan , Warner Bros., Warren Miller, Wells Fargo Bank.
Government and Military
US Air Force,
USDA Forest Service.
Royal Commission of Saudi Arabia,
( Past -Top Secret security clearance)
Non-profit
Battery Dance, Breast Cancer Research Fund, California Academy of Sciences,
Children's Cancer Research Institute, Computer History Museum, Diablo Ballet, Easter Seals,
Grizzly Creek Ranch (Sierra Health Foundation), San Francisco Ballet,
Sears- Roebuck Foundation, United Nations, & YMCA.
Dance - interviews include: Helgi Tomasson, Mark Morris, Michael Smuin and
interviews at the School of American Ballet (SAB) in New York City.
Name Dropping - some of the people I've photographed/videotaped
Videotaped well over a thousand interviews, some of the people I've photographed or videotaped include: Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Kamala Harris, Dr. Erich Schmidt,
Larry Ellison, Meg Whitman, Bill Walsh, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Jerry Brown,
Quincy Jones, Ted Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, Katherine Graham, Arnold Schwarznegger,
Robin Williams, Dianne Feinstein, Marc Andreessen, Sally Fields, Steve Wozniak, Dan Aykroyd, Bryan Cranston, George Lucas, Frank Gehry, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Munger, Marc Benioff,
Steve Ballmer, Carrie Fisher, Steven Spielberg, and Tom Hanks.
Less famous - but also very amazing, are some remarkable people I've met doing documentaries for the Breast Cancer fund, YMCA, Battery Dance and Easter Seals.
Lex Fletcher - Born to Shoot™
More photos on Zenfolio
IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2442400/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Voting Member of the Television Academy - Cinematographers group
YouTube
Easter Seals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7yKlMrNFMQ&feature=youtu.be
Kauai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YeHP5OzFxg
Sweet Dreams (Rwanda)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_9MvvBSbNg
San Francisco Carnaval
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rWReuHzzjw
Moving Stories
http://www.wildernessfilms.us/movingstories.html
Climb Against the Odds - Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAAOs6dyrw0
Papua New Guinea: New Choices, Ancient Land
Warren Miller - Roller Skiing from his 1984 Ski Country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUOnXXh1ECw
Wilderness - Shot in the 1970s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4h2IDJEMtQ
Some Highlights
- Shooting on all Seven Continents.
- As a college student, hitch·hiked through South America & traveled down the Amazon with my 16mm Bolex camera.
- After college drove up the Alaska Highway (ALCAN) from the SF Bay Area to film and climb Denali.
- CNN's 1st Northern California cameraman - Presidents, Governors, Senators, Mayors, Celebrities and News.
- Filmed/Videotaped climbs - Denali, Alaska (x2), Mt Fuji, Japan (x2), Mt Huascaran, Peru. Pico de Orizaba, Mexico. Mt Whitney, Mt Baker, Glacier Peak, Lassen Peak, Mt Shasta & Mt Rainier in the winter.
- Spent my summers in college guiding & filming trips down the Rogue River & leading Backpacking trips in the Pacific Northwest - San Francisco Film Festival
- Guided & filmed trips on the "Inca trail" to the "Lost City of the Incas" - Machu Picchu, Peru. - Showtime
- Helicopter aerials in some of the most remote places in the world including Papua New Guinea, Iguazu Falls Argentina/Brazil, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Peru, and Tikal, Guatemala.
- Videotaped some of the best chefs in the world including Ferran Adrià, José Andrés, Iron Chef Matsaharu Morimoto, Thomas Keller for The Culinary Institute of America.
- Great Wall of China - followed the wall from Beijing to the Yellow Sea where it meets the ocean. - Disney
- Woman drummers in Rwanda - their stories and experience in the Rwandan genocide & President Paul Kagame - Prime
- The Kremlin and Red Square in winter, we also attended Bolshoi Ballet, Russia - Disney
- Four projects in Saudi Arabia over 4 years, including filming the King of Saudi Arabia - Bechtel & Sunset Magazine.
- Shoots in Egypt, Greece, Guatemala and Cambodia - Disney
- Projects for the San Francisco Ballet, Diablo Ballet, Margaret Jenkins, Battery Dance & OMO for PBS
- Patagonia - Torres del Paine, Glaciers & Tierra del Fuego
- Antarctica - Penguins, Whales & Iceberg Passageways.
- A Photograph I took in Paris was used by Intel in their commercial that aired during the World Series and Super Bowl.
