Scottish producer in Helsinki specialising in educational media 🎥 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇫🇮

I create stories people learn from. The job in my heart is to keep asking why, keep giving how and make learning happen by accident.

Work

At Aalto Executive Education I'm the do it all producer: filming, editing, live AV, technical development and taping together enough code and configurations to make complex work go to the audience / students beautifully.

Freelance

I shoot events, portraits and run live event AV. Conferences, talks, launches, interviews, creative projects: I can plan it, shoot it, run it and edit it. A microbiology MSc (plus a BSc in Biochemistry with honours) and lots of experience with science communication means I'm comfortable sitting down with experts, students and public alike - I've also been published.

Projects

I spent a year producing, filming, directing and editing a feature length documentary with Lesley Riddoch, "The happiest country that almost didn't exist". It asks how a country works this well, toured cinemas and community venues across Scotland, mostly to sold out rooms. You can watch it online for free.

Beyond client work, I photograph around Helsinki and any squirrel that holds still (eau naturhel photo collection), play Finnish rock live with Juha-Matti Paska, and made Medieval Solutions, a party card game where you pitch absurd fixes to a town's problems and oversell them to your friends (play online).

I am just communication and education in different outfits.

Need something filmed, photographed, run or explained?

gav@gav.fi