I don't shoot parties
Today, "filmmakers" are a dime a dozen... but I'm different.
I create films and images that move people and compel them to take action for causes that really matter
AWARD WINNING INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER
I’m Joseph Sindorf, an international humanitarian filmmaker and photojournalist. I’ve worked in more than 85 nations of the world, and am normally found where people are at their worst — in the aftermath of tsunamis, earthquakes, tornados, or hurricanes; surviving famine or drought; caught in the crossfire of war or insurrection; suffering intense injustice as slaves, trafficking victims, or refugees.
Some of the fine organizations I’ve been privileged to partner with…
(by the way, I’ve also worked with lots of great people and companies who don’t have fancy logos or household names)
I’d love to help you, too. Let’s start a conversation and see if it might be a good fit.
Let us help you
With experience that spans more than 85 nations we've helped organizations solve problems and increase effectiveness by telling their story to inspire action.
Worldwide Video Training
You have stories that need to be told. Your emails, newsletters, and social media posts don’t get the response you need. You know video would really help but you can’t afford to hire a professional crew to fly half-way around the world to shoot for you. Don’t despair, as we create a story, we’ll train your team to create compelling content, using tools you already have — your smartphone and laptop.
Writing for Response
We’re professional writers; by that we mean that for more than 30 years clients have paid us to write for them, and our work repeatedly gets response. We have a proven track record for writing copy that compels readers to take action. We’ve written books (including an Amazon bestseller), magazine cover stories, video and film scripts, television and radio shows, and direct mail. We can help tell your story.
International Filmmaking
We have created videos and short documentary films in more than 85 countries of the world — often in dangerous and difficult circumstances. We know how to get into places without drawing attention, how to find and capture the images, sounds, and emotion, and how to return home to share your compelling story with those who need to hear it. We have pro gear, it’s packed, ready to go!
Get in touch, let’s see how we can work together.
Field Notes
Insights from working in more than 85 countries.
I’ll help you live, work, and take better pictures, anywhere in the world.
I was helping my wife with some correcting tonight (sometimes I’m an overpaid graduate teaching assistant) and we came across one student who had not I am creating a new website which will include my blog. I had a friend build this one for me long ago, and it has This story is running everywhere right now: Jennifer Foster, a tourist from Arizona was walking around New York’s Times Square with her boyfriend when she saw How I love to proclaim it! Redemption is one of those words that most of us use rather flippantly. Paul, the apostle, used the term Back in Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, in the KLM Sky Lounge, thinking back on Cape Town 2010. It dawned on me that 21 years ago, the Last night, The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization came to a triumphant conclusion. The plenary hall of the Cape Town International Convention Center was Weird combo – arts & integrity – but it works. Watch our most recent video release from Cape Town 2010, The Third Lausanne Congress on World The planners of The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization knew there would be far ranging interest in the proceedings in Cape Town with people Thursday was a day off for participants of Cape Town 2010, but many staff stayed on to use the time to finish up tasks that As promised, here is the link for our latest video report (of course, if you have registered as a broadcaster and have access to the When I was the director of communications for Lausanne II in Manila, we didn’t have any problems with wireless internet connections or with broadband connections Nothing is easy. We’re now halfway through the Congress, and still difficulties rear their ugly heads to keep me in the edit room until 11 My first story has just been uploaded and is ready to be downloaded from our ftp site to stations and networks across the country and Praise God! The opening session took place Sunday night with much celebration and fanfare. It was glorious to stand in the room watching the thousands Well, there’s good news and bad news from Cape Town… Bad news first: my first piece isn’t online yet. As a matter of fact, its Our workspace isn’t ready yet, and the crews are still getting their gear together… but we’ve already begun creating stories for broadcast! I’m finishing up After 24 hours of air travel (thanks Delta for the upgrade!) I’ve finally arrived in one of the most beautiful cities in the world – According to my Delta SkyMiles account, that’s how many miles I’ve flown in the past 30 days. (That’s almost twice the distance around the earth.) Yesterday a pastor and his wife made total fools out of themselves on a flight that I was on from Amsterdam to Nairobi. They were Como descubrimos en la clase, a veces la tecnología no funciona de la manera que usted quisiera que! Por alguna razón desconocida, WordPress no es Kathy y yo acababa de regresar de una semana maravillosa en la conferencia de COICOM en Punta Cana, República Dominicana. Nos ayuda a un grupo (how’s that for alliteration?!) There have been several times over the course of the summer that interns, students and people going into their first job Those of us who love adventure travel – especially when we have a camera in our hands – are a unique group. When danger stops I recently joined the DSLR video revolution (see my post: “converted in vegas”) and have been shooting full 1080p HD video on a Canon 7d. This is the third, and probably final, installment in my posts of lessons from my latest project. The first was on communication, second on contracts As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been overseeing a large project for a major ministry and although I’ve been working professionally in television for I’m overseeing a large project that has several producers working on individual segments. This process is incredibly rewarding, giving me the opportunity to work with I’ve been in the market for a new HD video camera for some time now. That’s why I played around with my schedule and bailed I just returned from the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville. It’s a conference I try not to miss – not because of the great On Christmas Day, I turned my Blackberry off as I boarded a flight from Grand Rapids to Ft. Lauderdale. The four of us (Kat, Tori, I’ve had the privilage of working with many great men and women in the Christian world – Pat Robertson, Luis Palau, Kay Arthur, Rod Parsley, Sometimes, maybe once a week, I find myself at Waffle House enjoying their steak and eggs (medium, over medium, wheat, scattered and well done). I You know the routine… meet someone new, and one of the first questions is: “So, what do you do?” My answer, “I’m a television producer” I’m no stranger to travel. After having spent the majority of my career covering stories in more than 65 nations of the world, travel is Panera is great. Free wi-fi, free coffee refills, superb music, and those amazing cinnamon crunch bagels. But tonight (as the incredible Concerto for Two Violins I recently had the great privilage of being the director of photography and assistant director on a major video production. I wish I could tell I have no idea how the redneck title on this post came about. Yeah, we lived in Tennessee for a spell, but never in a I was honored to lead two workshops at the recent National Religious Broadcasters convention. Thanks to my fine friends Jenni Catron, Matthew Paul Turner and Michael My right shoulder has been proud to hold a wide array of cameras — first were the CP-16, Eclair ACL2 and Arri-BL film cameras, then You’d think, growing up in New England, that I’d be used to the cold. I actually used to love winter… spending hours cross country skiing I spend a ton of time traveling, both in the air and driving (when can I please start sailing again?!) and most of the time Cindy McCain and my wife, Kat, have something in common (besides both being beautiful, capable women)… they have both been active volunteers with the Norfolk, Not long ago I blogged about Twitter [click here to read it] and wasn’t really all that complementary. But what a power peer pressure is! I have produced thousands of hours of live and live-to-tape television, and the majority of all problems have come from IFB (interruptible foldback- that ear “We’re not trying to grow a church here.” That’s not exactly what you expect to hear right before the pastor says that we must expand Wow… two hurricanes, two tropical depressions… yeah baby we’re flirtin’ with disaster! Sorry Molly Hatchet for rippin off your song, but it works! I’ve been I love speeches. No, actually, I hate most speeches, I love great speeches. That is why I watched much of the Democratic National Convention this Summer is just about history. Labor Day — the traditional start of Autumn — is less than a week away, and I just got the jet I’m spending a lot of time right now in Central Ohio, helping a huge television ministry as executive producer. It’s demanding, hard and rewarding but Two lessons today… First: when you are on top of the world, everything seems to be going right, and as the church says, you’re blessed I can’t believe it. I’m in the middle of producing a new reel, and I’m going through boxes of tapes, pulling out great stuff that I love the work of Robert Frost. It probably comes from my New England roots. The pictures that Frost paints with his poetry bring back I like Father Michael Pfleger, or at least I liked him back when I was executive producer at WCFC-TV in Chicago and he was a Somebody done somebody wrong… again. Scott McClellan was one of President George W. Bush’s posse that moved with him from Austin to the West Wing. He was a Uber-Designer, Michael Buckingham, wrote a great post on his blog today in which he talks about the risk of promoting what you cannot deliver. It’s Public Relations is a mix of art and science and is a practice every professional needs to master, even if it’s just to market yourself. I interviewed a young man for an entry-level producer position today. He graduated from college in December, was highly recommended by his department chair, has One month ago, April 20, 2008, singer/songwriter Steven Curtis Chapman was inducted into the Music City Walk Of Fame in Nashville, TN. Today, one month Sunday my family and I visited Crossroads Bible Church in Grand Rapids. We had heard good things from some of Kat’s students at Cornerstone University Check out the new Collide site. I liked the print version of the magazine and was ready not to be impressed with the web version, I was listening to NPR today on my weekly trip to Lowe’s, and the anchor did a phone interview with an aid worker named Joy Props to Brad Abare, Michael Buckingham and the geniuses that came up with the Church Marketing Lab. There is a new thread on there that Every now and then a deal comes around that you can’t pass up (like buying oil futures when crude was $50 a barrel). My friend Cory Today I was in a creative session with one of the largest Christian television ministries and we discussed the needs of the world, and what we I love technology, I’m not on the bloody edge of tech, but I’m usually an early adopter. That being said, what’s up with Twitter? I’m In a recent discussion with my resident curator of cultural conformity (my 16 year old daughter) (and yes, we do have discussions, where we both Anna Jarvis worked nine years to establish a national day celebrating mothers. She gave up her job and put her entire time and energy into I have flown a lot (working in more than 65 nations will do that for you) however, I haven’t flown much in the past two This week I interviewed Hilary, a beautiful college girl who was healed last Sunday during the communion segment of the morning service. She’d been in This week I have been back in my old office, working with the same people as before, and although it felt weird every now and This is the first post that I have written on this my new blog, thanks to my excellent friend and associate, Mark (Hardly Normal)… Testing But wait… there’s more! I'd love to hear how I can help you so contact me and I'll get back to you quickly.
ALL CONTENT © JOSEPH SINDORF 2016
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Under Construction
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Redeemed!
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Homeward Bound
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Cape Town 2010 – It’s History
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Cape Town 2010 – Art & Integrity
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Cape Town 2010 – GlobaLink
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Cape Town 2010 – refreshment
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Cape Town 2010 – new video report
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Cape Town 2010 – hacked & healed
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Cape Town 2010 – the saga continues
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Cape Town 2010 – success at last
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Cape Town 2010 – celebration and frustration
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Countdown Continues… one more day!
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Countdown to CapeTown 2010 (and coffee)
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Countdown to CapeTown 2010
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46,279 Miles (and counting)
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Stupid Christians
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COICOM (part 2)
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COICOM
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Ten time tested tips to turn tasks to triumph!
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Precious in the sight of the Lord
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Go shoot something
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Show Me The Money
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The Fine Print Matters
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Try Talking…
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Converted in Vegas
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What do I do with this pile of business cards?
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Unplugged
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Oral Roberts – his last television interview
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Inspiration at Waffle House
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Writing at Gunpoint
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Another birthday on the road
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Cup o’ Joe
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Shoot out in St. Louis
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dang… the tv needs fixin’
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the downside of conventions
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I’ll take the small camera, please.
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Baby, It’s Cold Outside!
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free podcast advice
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Cindy McCain and my wife…
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Is it twittering or tweeting?
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Prompter Hell
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The Paradox of Church Growth
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flirtin’ with disaster
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The Lost Art of the Great Speech
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Rules for Vacation
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forced evacuation
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Don’t Let Up and Don’t Give Up.
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How many tape machines does a guy need?
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Poetic Justice
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Betrayal
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McCain – a PR case study
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Employment advice
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From the Heights to the Depths
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When was the last time you cried in church?
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Great Design & Great Site
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Take the PR Op
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You know you work in church communications if…
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Truth is Absolute.
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The Face of Christ
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Not quite a-twitter yet
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Anatomy of church
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Mother’s Day
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Get Upgraded – Free!
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Hey God… I’m Still Waiting
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Don’t burn bridges
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There’s always a first time
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