Committed Steward of Mindful Media Literacy, Consumption & Production
Dedicated to:
- Creating a “classroom” environment where students are inspired, engaged, creative and collaborative.
- Fostering curiosity, exploration and discovery; self awareness, non-violent communication and healthy creative expression; service orientated community engagement and leadership.
- Maintaining a well informed / critical level of global awareness, while navigating the balance between sustainable digital minimalism, surveillance capitalism and digesting the media bombardment that dominant culture serves us.
- Empowering others, through an each-one-teach-one approach, to create and share valuable digital content to the widest possible audience.
Making Media that Matters:
authentic, inspirational, and viral messages with integrity… Copy Writing & Editing, Photography, Video and Music Production. I got you covered!
Nicole Jaquis is an American multimedia maker and educator based in India since 2010. Bi-lingual in Hindi/English, she often works as a fixer, translator, producer, production assistant, locations manager and photographer / videographer for international projects shooting on location in India.
Other Projects include:
* January 2020 – PA & Boom Operator (among an all women crew ) for a Women’s Day commercial shoot for Google Maps, Directed by Neeti Uppadhye, featuring a Local Guide from Vapi, Gujarat, who has single handedly put dozens of women owned local businesses on the map.
* January 2020 – Translator, Interviewer, Sound Recorder for short Directed by Neeti Uppadhye for AJ+ (Al Jazeera’s social media channel) covering the delayed hanging of the four young men convicted in the Nirbhaya 2012 Delhi gang rape case.
* October 2019 – Fixer / Translator for a Norwegian production of the popular Reality TV Show “Samuel og Bestefar”, on location in Varanasi, India.
* 2015 – Production lead / Fixer for two music videos by Desi-Canadian spiritual hip-hop artists: Sacr3d Feat. Raamayan & Ka La, shot on location in Uttarakhand (several locations around the foothills of the Uttarakhand Himalayas and Varanasi.
* 2010 – Field Coordinator: India for the Documentary Film “Kumare” Directed by Vikram Gandhi, about a Desi-American man who impersonates a wise Indian Guru and builds a following in Arizona.
* 2006 – Subtitler for Showtime’s “Shame” (Dir. Mohammed Naqvi) a documentary about Mukhtaran Mai, who was gang raped in her Pakistani village. Gaining the attention of by U.S.-based Journalist Nicholas Kristof, eventually Mukhtaran was awarded 5 Lakh Rupees by the Government (hush money), which she used to build a girls’ school with the hopes that by enlightening young minds she can make way for a better Pakistan.
* 2001 – 2002 – Still Photographer and Associate Producer for Projectile Arts’ documentary film, “Take Me to the River”, Directed by Kenneth Eng, covering the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, where she also managed the translation and subtitle team as well as took the film on tour throughout India in 2004.
Background:
An old school Photographer, Nicole uses photoshop as if it is a real darkroom, having got her first 35mm SLR when she was 13 or so, and being trained in black and white as well as color photography throughout highschool, university and graduate school, processing film and developing images by hand throughout the late 80s and 90s.
In undergrad she was the photo assistant for Michele Litvin, a Chicago base photojournalist best know for her coverage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
Nicole also learned sound editing with a knife cutting actual reel to reel tape and video editing on VHS decks. Studying multimedia & technology in education at Harvard in the late 90s, she transitioned to digital.
Throughout late 90s she documented the New England (Massachusetts > NYC) local music scene, photographing on stage, from the front row of the audience and backstage / green room of musicians such as The Roots, Medeski Martin and Wood, The Slip (now the Bar Brothers) , and John Scolfield. For those years she was the main photographer documenting the Berkshire Mountain Music Festival.
Summer 2000 she worked at the Associated Press (Boston bureau), developing and scanning negatives, retouching images, uploading to their global server and writing captions and other meta data.
From 2005-2009 she was a multimedia teacher / program coordinator managing several classrooms in some of the roughest neighbourhoods through New York City, teaching youth and young adults video production (fiction and documentary), digital photography and electronic hip-hop music production.
Currently she manages the multimedia production, social media marketing and Curriculum Development for Online and In-Person retreats at YogAnga Retreat at Santosh Puri Ashram, while doing various production gigs on the side.
