A freelance director, cameraman and video editor, Adam Sébire has been based in Northern Norway's Arctic regions since 2020.
He uses a highly portable professional filmmaking kit, suited to fast-moving shoots and interviews in multiple locations, even in difficult or extreme conditions.
Adam also offers broadcast-quality video editing and delivery services drawing on decades of experience producing AV material for television, film festivals, online/web distribution and social media channels.
Shoot styles
• 28 years’ experience in TV, factual & interview video production
• Online/web/social media videos
• Theatre performance & performing arts archival recordings and documentation (Adam is musically trained)
• Artist & artworks documentation
• Special events & promotional shoots
• Aerial UAV drone video (European A1/A3 & A2 licensed; usage subject to authorisation approvals)
• Huge library of environmentally themed stock footage available (around 8,000 clips)
• Video art & multimedia (for large scale projections etc.)
• Simultaneous digital still photos at events requiring video AND stills photography
• 360º immersive video for VR headsets, dome projections, etc.
Clients & work
• Corporate videos for government & community organisations
• 5 x 4' videos for Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
• 28 documentaries for broadcast including Al Jazeera, ABC TV & SBS TV Australia, eg. Cyprus: Echoes Across the Divide
• Director/editor/camerman of award-winning documentaries for cinema/film festivals and education eg. Sikoqqinngisaannassooq
• Airbnb ‘Experiences' promos: vertical video/stills
• YouTube Symphony Orchestra videos for Google
• Interviews with local talent for overseas TV productions
• Documentation of French artist Pierre Huyghe’s installation A Forest of Lines (Biennale of Sydney)
• Shorts for Sydney Opera House, the Australian Opera, Architects of Air, TEDx Sydney, Ironfest, 350.org
• Directed 2 orchestral jazz multicam DVDs (Universal Music)
• Showreels for world music bands incl. Lolo Lovina, Black Train Band, Marsala
• Extensive documentation of Arctic climate change in Svalbard & Greenland
Rates
• Freelance hire rate rates include all equipment, preparation & liaison
• Special rates are offered for educational, cultural & non-profit organisations
• There are many variables so please send a brief outline of your requirements for a quote (email address below)
→ Selected FILMOGRAPHY (complete archive coming soon)
→ Adam’s STOCK FOOTAGE LIBRARY
Showreel of Adam's video art series “anthropoScenes”:
Equipment
• Sony ⍺7iv shooting UHD/4K S-LOG 24-60fps PAL or NTSC on an Atomos Ninja V to enable beautiful HDR colour grading
• Sony lenses for stills photography
• 5K DJI Air2s UAV for drone aerial video footage
• 8K50p DJI Osmo 360 for immersive VR headsets & projections
• GoPro with dome housing for time-lapse, pov and underwater shots
• Røde radiomike kit with lapel microphones
• Tripod, gimbal, cine-slider
Video editing
• Final Cut Pro X and DaVinci Resolve for video post-production, up to 8K delivered 24-60fps in Rec.709 or HDR HLG Rec.2020 (high dynamic range – see video, left)
• Delivery for broadcast, cinema (DCP), 360º headset viewing, web, social media or mobile devices
• Expert production of work in vertical and non-standard aspect ratios (some fun "experiments" in screen shapes can be found here...)
• Graphics/titles design and subtitling/captioning is available
Samples of Adam’s commercial work