Timothy Ouillette

Munjoy Hill Media

• Founded a documentary-focused S corporation serving broadcast, streaming, news, nonprofit, university, and commercial clients.
• Selected clients and production partners include HBO, Warner Bros., The New York Times, Discovery, National Geographic, CNN, Bloomberg, NPR, Al Jazeera, ABC, Hearst, ESPN-related productions, Pulse Films, Wall to Wall, and Jimmy Kimmel Productions.

Northeastern University, College of Arts, Media and Design

Teach documentary, television, sound, editing, and postproduction courses while maintaining an active professional practice.

• Co-architected the Film and Creative Media undergraduate major through a six-year, cross-departmental curriculum process involving multiple department chairs, college committees, the dean, and the provost's office.
• Integrated Runway, Sonix, and Adobe Creative Cloud tools into documentary and special-effects instruction while foregrounding ethics, authorship, disclosure, and responsible use.
• Received the 2024 High Impact Teaching Award, one of ten college-wide awards recognizing classroom impact.
• Chaired a college-wide Gear Refresh Committee overseeing approximately $500,000 in media-equipment planning and implementation.
• Created the CAMD Media Showcase and participated in the Media Task Force, Arts, Entertainment and Media Task Force, promotion review, merit review, SXSW planning, and faculty hiring committees.
• Mentored directed studies, connected graduates with professional opportunities, and placed students on productions distributed by Netflix, PBS, and ESPN.

State of Maine Judicial Branch

Provide Spanish-English interpretation in criminal, civil, and family court matters.

University of Southern Maine, Communication Studies

Taught compositing and special effects, history of animation, motion graphics, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, and independent study in multitrack audio production.

Oxford Hills Technical School

• Developed and maintained a production curriculum spanning field production, editing, animation, visual effects, audio, and narrative filmmaking.
• Founded a student film festival that continued beyond his tenure and connected student work with regional and national festivals.
• Managed a media lab, network, equipment inventory, and annual budget of approximately $50,000.

University of Hong Kong, Centre of Journalism and Broadcast Media

Developed a digital-storytelling syllabus for the Career Discoveries in Communication summer intensive in Shanghai, working with international correspondent Jim Laurie.

University of New England, Writing for New Media

Taught early cinema, screenwriting, and short-film production.

Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art, emphasis in Film

• Thesis focused on participatory culture, social media, and read-only media.
• Advisors: Oliver Wasow, Constanze Ruhm, and Julia Scher.
• Mentors included Arnold Barkus, Bennett Morris, Virginia Valdes, and Caveh Zahedi.

Bachelor of Arts in Communication, Minor in Theatre

Northeastern University, College of Arts, Media and Design

FRONTLINE: Breakdown in Maine

Northeastern University

Awarded a semester of research leave to develop and film Las Tortugas de El Zonte in El Salvador.

George Carlin's American Dream, HBO

Contributing cinematographer on the Emmy-winning series.

Multilingual COVID-19 public-service announcement

My Life My Choice

Motion-graphics artist and consultant.

Maine Outdoor Film Festival

Snapshot of a Skatepark.

Maine Community Foundation / Harlow Gallery

One of 12 artists selected from 113 applicants for Imperishable.

The New York Times

Video forensics and field research. Contributed to a visual-investigation team examining an ICE shooting in Maine. New York Times project link

Gorilla Comedy+

Director and producer. Stand-up comedy special whose social clips received more than six million views during the first two weeks of release.

Director and producer. Multi-platform reproductive-health campaign; reported results included 27,000 additional video completions, 43,000 additional engagements, and top-performing spots with click-through rates eight percent above comparable campaign content.

Director of photography and executive producer. Narrative film set in a Cape Cod captain's house.

Paris, France

Cinematographer and producer. Educational media on civil resistance using AI-assisted translation workflows.

Director, producer, cinematographer, and editor. Hybrid documentary/autobiography spanning 25 years and four narratives; two months of principal photography in El Salvador and an AI-assisted multilingual postproduction workflow.

PBS FRONTLINE and Portland Press Herald

Cinematographer / director of photography. Investigation of the Lewiston mass shooting; project nominated for a Peabody Award and two National Emmy Awards.

Renowned Films / The Weather Channel

Director and producer. Two episodes about maritime salvage off the Maine coast.

Content With Purpose

Shooting director and cinematographer. Interviewed and documented EPA personnel at a Superfund cleanup site in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Upstander Project

Cinematographer and producer. Observational short following a musician, tattoo ritual, and questions of memory and meaning.

Cinematographer. Official selection, Los Angeles Film Festival.

Paris, France

Director. Series on civil nonviolence using AI-assisted translation workflows.

The New York Times

Video reporting and research. Contributed to web-front-page coverage with a large multidisciplinary reporting team.

The New York Times

Video reporting.

Renowned Films / The Weather Channel

Director and producer. Two episodes about a sunken barge off the Maine coast.

HBO

Cinematographer; directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio. Winner of the Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary Series.

National Geographic / Disney

Director of photography. Interview and b-roll production.

Hearst / Very Local

Director of photography. Cinema-verite documentary following students and communities during pandemic-era prom season.

CNN

Director and director of photography. Short documentary about salmon conservation and hatchery innovation in Maine.

HLN

Director, director of photography, host, and producer.

American Public Television / PBS

Director of photography.

Bloomberg

Director and director of photography. Interviews on the Ferdinand Marcos class-action litigation and socially responsible investment.

Discovery+ / Amazon Prime / Wall to Wall

Second-unit director and director of photography. Directed key dramatized sequences for a hybrid science series.

HBO

Cinematographer. Produced a multi-location remote interview workflow connecting Los Angeles, London, New York, and Maine.

ESPN 30 for 30 / Jimmy Kimmel Productions

Sound recordist. Recorded one of the final major interviews with writer Roger Angell.

Director. Documentary on U.S. asylum policy and its effects on migrants, advocates, and communities in Tijuana and San Diego.

Headline News / Hearst

Director and director of photography.

Hearst

Director and director of photography. Mini-documentary on support for people with limb loss.

Newsy

Director and director of photography.

Al Jazeera

Director and director of photography. Mini-documentary following three siblings and their Olympic ambitions.

MyHeritage

Director and director of photography. Documented siblings meeting for the first time following a DNA match.

PBS American Masters

Cinematographer. National broadcast documentary featuring Roger Angell, Wade Boggs, Emily DiMaggio, and Bob Costas.

TRT Turkish Television

Director and director of photography.

Travel + Leisure / Time Inc.

Director of photography.

Feinstein International Center

Producer, cinematographer, and editor. Thirty-minute documentary on postwar reparations, funded through UK Aid and Irish Aid.

Producer. Training film funded by Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Dignitas Research Innovation Fund and used in humanitarian-worker training.

South Africa

Producer and director. Twelve-part series on microfinance and informal economies.

Farmer/Artist Partnership

Filmmaker. Screened at Harlow Gallery and Engine Gallery with artist talks.

Director, cinematographer, and editor. Best Film, Maine Outdoor Film Festival; festival selections in Prague, Chamonix, and London.

Writer, director, performer, and editor. Works include Sadie OXOX, As American As Apple Lies, When Prophecy Fails, Zagabits, My Ideal Self, and ROMDOS, DOSROM?

Northeastern University

Undergraduate documentary filmmaking, Emerson College

Master of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance, Tufts University

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Fletcher School

Fletcher Leadership Program for Financial Inclusion

Interviews and communicating complex research to policymakers

Maine Film and Video Association / Maine College of Art

University of Southern Maine

Portland Film Festival / Maine College of Art

Coordinated submissions, judging, promotion, and programming with the Maine International Film Festival.

Student film festival, Oxford Hills Technical School

Abortion Care Network, Yes to Youth, and humanitarian-training initiatives.

Ugandan, South Sudanese, migration-policy, and human-rights communities.

Documentary directing, cinematography, field sound, editing, visual effects, studio and multicamera production, drone cinematography, remote interview workflows, and multilingual postproduction.

Spanish

ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview: Advanced Low.

English

Fluent / native proficiency.

2024 Director of Photography Reel

Snapshot of Jason Trask (2015)

Las Tortugas de El Zonte — 16-minute work-in-progress excerpt

ROMDOS, DOSROM? (2010)