KEVIN CATES's RESUME
NETWORK / NATIONAL:
ABC News - Good Morning America, World News Tonight, American Inventor
NBC - Today, Dateline, MSNBC, ‘Beautiful Homes & Great Estates’
CBS News & CBS Sports
FOX Sports Net - Best Damn Sports, FOX News, Geraldo, Fox Home Video, American Idol
A & E - Biographies ‘Robert Mondavi’; ‘Jack London’, ‘Technicolor’ ; American Justice - ‘Laci Peterson’
HGTV - ‘Curb Appeal’, ‘House Detective’, Old Homes Restored’, ‘Carol Duval Show’
CNN - ‘Larry King Live’, Newsroom’, ‘Turnaround’, HBO ‘Bill Maher Politically Incorrect’
ESPN: ‘SportsNews’, ‘NFL Primetime’, ‘Rome is Burning’, ‘The Mayne Event’, ‘Outside the Lines’
Discovery Channel - ‘Treasure Makers’, ‘Christopher Lowell’, ‘Hidden Treasures’
History Channel - docs ‘Golden Gate Bridge’, ‘Summer of Love’, ‘Modern Marvels’, ‘The Balloon Man’
TNT - ‘At the Movies’, ‘Inside the NBA’,
TBS Sports; E! True Hollywood Stories; Entertainment Tonight;
Access Hollywood; Extra; Inside Edition;
Oprah; Dr. Phil; Animal Planet ‘That’s my Baby’; Travel Channel ‘Most Haunted’; CNET; ZDTV; Playboy; Lifetime; Food Network
G4 ‘Pulse’, ‘History of Video Games’
WE Channel - ‘Platinum Weddings’, ‘Platinum Babies’
INTERNATIONAL:
German TV, Duetch Wella, French Channel 2, Japan TV NDK, BBC, London Stock Exchange
KQED SAN FRANCISCO:
PBS Documentaries: ‘Taiwan’, ‘Columbia Guardians - Coast Guard SAR’, ‘Castro’, ‘Fillmore’, ‘Cry of the Yurok’, ‘Michael Tilsen Thomas - SF Symphony’, ‘Dead Man Walking’, ‘Dalai Lama - Synthesis Dialogs’
PBS weekly series:
Independent View - 1/2 hour show featuring Independent Filmmakers
Digital West - 1/2 hour show focusing on Silicon Valley
This Week in Northern California - weekly show on Political Events.
McNeil/Lehrer News Hour
CEO Exchange -1 hour show focusing on successful CEO’s
Healthweek - 1/2 hour show focusing on health issues
Frontline: ‘Fault line - Earthquake Uncovered’, ‘Rush Limbaugh - Excellence in Broadcasting?’
Cooking Shows: ‘Jaques Peppin’, ‘Yan Can Cook’
BEHIND THE SCEENS DVD / PRESS EVENTS: 'Up', ‘Hugo’, The Help’, ‘The Social Network’, ‘Moneyball’, ‘Of Men and Mavericks’, ‘Puss and Boots’, ‘Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy’, ‘Madagascar3’, ‘Red Tails’, ‘5 Year Engagement’, ‘Milk’, ‘ Cars 2’, ‘Star Wars Phantom Menace’, ‘Black Swan’
SPORTS: San Francisco 49’ers football/Giants baseball/Warriors basketball, Oakland Raiders football /A’s baseball, San Jose Earthquakes soccer, Sharks Hockey, Cal Berkeley Football, Basketball, Stanford University Football, Basketball.
For 30 years I have worked on hundreds Broadcast/Corporate TV shows interviewing the CEOs and VIPs of Apple, Ebay, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, 3Com, Intel, AT&T, Sun Microsystems, Nortel, National Semiconductor, Netscape, AOL, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citibank, Chevron, Pac Bell, Pacific Gas & Electric, Charles Schwab, VWare, NASA, and more.....
Cameras comfortable working with: Sony F950, F900r, HDW-730, XDCAM, PMW-EX1/3, F-3, DigiBeta, BetacamSP 600, 400, Z1U, V1U, PD 170; Panasonic Varicam, HPX-2000p, HPX-170, HDX 900, HVX 900, 500, 200, DVX 100; Canon DSLR 5DMK2/3, 7D, 60D, XL-H1, XH-A1,G1; JVC 100. And all studio/remote truck long lens camera set-ups.
Software Programs proficient in: Final Cut Pro, Motion, Color, Logic Pro, Sountrack Pro, Compressor, DVD Pro; Adobe Photoshop, AfterEffects, Dreamweaver, Bridge; Pro Animator, GenArts Sapphire, Red Giant Trapcode.
Graduate California State University Chico 1980 Broadcast Journalism -Radio and Television
1982 to 1989: Owner/Director of Photography/Producer: In Focus Video Productions
1989 to present: Owner/Director of Photography/Producer: Kevin Cates Productions
