Crew

DARNLEY R HODGE JR
Director of Photography / Head of Operations

Darnley Hodge, Head of Operations

Darnley Hodge, Photographer/Editor

Darnley R. Hodge Jr., is an award winning fifteen-year veteran photojournalist and video editor whose work has been featured on every national broadcast television network and many national cable stations.  Over the years Darnley has covered everything from the Pentagon on 9-11 to the World Series to the President of the Ivory Coast in Abidjan on his reelection campaign.  Darnley holds a B.S. in Mass Communications from Virginia Commonwealth University and has served as director, supervisor, field producer and producer on numerous projects including news gathering,  reality television, commercials, music videos and corporate video.  He is an expert AVID and Final Cut Studio editor,  has Capitol Hill press credentials,  and has worked as a photographer and editor for NBC, CNBC, and COX national networks and CBS and ABC affiliates in Richmond, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.  Darnley has also worked behind the camera on international productions in West Africa, Brazil, The United Kingdom, and the West Indies.


BRIAN CALLAGHAN
Producer/Correspondent

Brian Callaghan, Producer/Correspondent

Brian Callaghan, Producer/Correspondent

A graduate of Georgetown University, Brian Callaghan spent the first twenty of his more than forty year long career as a broadcast news reporter, television producer, speechwriter, and professional actor. A veteran of the Washington press corps, his first brush with journalism was as a speechwriter for Katharine Graham at The Washington Post.  As a television news reporter, he covered Capitol Hill and The White House for America Today, an international news program, broadcast daily to over 100 countries.   Brian also hosted live satellite news conferences for Worldnet Television, linking up U.S. and foreign officials, and produced public affairs documentaries that received international recognition.  He has produced arts programming for PBS, scripted narrations for National Geographic films, managed historic Ford’s Theatre and served in the United States Marine Corps.  For the past seventeen years, Brian has traveled the U.S. and overseas as a public speaking coach helping people from all walks of life to communicate more effectively.  Included among his clients are business executives and government officials, physicians and attorneys, educators, police and military officers, sports figures, film stars  and television  personalities.

 

MICHAEL BROLEMAN
Photographer

Mike Broleman, Photographer

Mike Broleman, Photographer

For the last ten of his twenty-plus years as a videographer, Mike Broleman has been working in the Washington DC area covering both local and national news and events.  Mike has shot footage and interviews for NBC NewsChannel, CNN NewsSource, CNBC, Fox Business News, Bloomberg Television and HDNET.   He has also covered NFL football, NHL hockey, NBA basketball and NCAA college sports.   Most recently, Mike worked as a staff photographer/editor for Tribune Broadcasting at its Washington Bureau.  There he covered the 2008 republican and democratic conventions, the presidential and vice presidential debates, election night in Chicago, and President Obama’s inauguration.  Previous to that, Michael spent much of 2004 traveling through hostile regions in Iraq to report on the rebuilding of that country’s infrastructure.  He has both White House and Capitol Hill press credentials.

 

IAN McALLISTER
Photographer/Editor/Director

Ian McAllister, Photographer/Editor

Ian McAllister, Photographer/Editor

Ian McAllister has travelled around the globe as a photographer/editor covering stories on multiple continents. In 2009, He travelled to France to shoot a series about the French Nuclear Industry.  Later on that year, he was part of a team that went to Barcelona, Spain and Copenhagen, Denmark to cover the COP15 Climate Talks.  In the fall of 2010, Ian travelled to China for three weeks to shoot a five part series focusing on multiple aspects of China’s energy future.  The following spring, he flew to Israel to shoot a four part series that touched on some of Israel’s energy challenges.  A true adventurer, his most recent vacation took him to Antarctica to complete his life long dream of setting foot on all seven continents.  Ian has worked as a staff photographer for Washington’s ABC affiliate WJLA and most recently he served Clean Skies News & energyNOW! as a director, photographer and editor where he directed daily live broadcasts as well as a weekly magazine style show which utilized an ORAD Virtual Set and the latest CG technology.  Ian is also an excellent non-linear editor with a solid command of Final Cut Pro Studio, Motion and Soundtrack Pro.