Ben Derico is a Bay-Area Video Journalist & Cinematographer

 Hi! Nice to meet you.

I’m Ben Derico— a Video Journalist, Producer, and Cinematographer in San Francisco. A former commercial video producer with over a decade of experience, I’m currently completing my Master’s at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. At the J-School, I’m learning to cater my technical experience creating advertisements towards filming stories for the public good. As a video journalist, I film and produce news segments, explainers, and mini documentaries. I work in English, Spanish and Portuguese. My stories range in subjects, but always have a curious perspective.

As a visual journalist I've filmed, reported, and edited videos for large outlets like The Washington Post and BBC III, as well as smaller, niche publications like Brownbook and Passion Passport. I’ve also worked as a print and photo reporter with articles and photos published in SFGate and Público.

For my thesis at Berkeley, I'm completing a short documentary about Chile's constitutional convention - particularly focused on the fight to establish water as a human right in the document that will replace their current dictatorship-era constitution. The film will be completed in mid May.

More than just a guy with a camera, think of me as a generalist who specializes in generalizing other people’s specialties. I love learning about the world and, with my camera in hand, I hope to keep exploring.