Kloie Picot
Instructor | Kloie Picot is a self-taught photojournalist/ video filmmaker, focusing on conflict, critical social issues, and cultural events from around the world. She began her career as a video journalist in the West Bank, making short video documentaries and has just completed her first full length documentary entitled “Shots that Bind” Palestinian Photojournalists in Nablus. Her numerous short films have won awards in Canada and S.E Asia including Best Cinematography at the New York Film and Video Festival, Best Documentary at the Urban Nomad Festival in Taipei. She has taught still and video to journalist students from the west to the east. She was instrumental is establishing with the UNDP the first Palestinian Film and Video Festival in the West Bank. Her students won top prizes and went on to make documentaries for Aljazeera. Kloie’s work is proof you do not necessarily need a long and expensive film school course to jump start your career in film-making. What is necessary is dedication and discipline. “The greater you allow your range of emotions and intuition to feel and show, the deeper you identify with the subject and moments you are capturing, the greater your receptivity by your subject and by those who view the image.” To view examples of Kloie Picot’s work, please visit: http://www.kloie.com | Videos |
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