ABOUT:

Raishad Momar is an Emmy award winning documentary cinematographer and video editor with a specialty in rendering intimate, honest stories on screen.

As a Black and queer filmmaker, Raishad cares deeply about how communities see themselves reflected on screen. His work is an attempt at archiving the complexity and beauty of those intersections.

Raishad got his chops working as a staff videographer for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he spent five years filming, editing and producing short documentary videos from around the region. While there, Raishad won six (6) regional Emmy awards as a part of The Inquirer’s small, newly formed video team. In 2019, he co-directed, filmed, and edited “Legendary: "30 Years of Philly Ballroom,” a short documentary about Philadelphia’s queer ballroom scene, which screened at the 2020 BlackStar Film Festival and won the festival’s Shine Award. Then in 2021, he and his close friend/co-director Aidan Un won the Best Local Short Award at the 2021 Philadelphia Film Festival for their film “Sisters of the Soil,” which documented the struggle for autonomy at a local Black woman owned bookshop. Most recently, Raishad won his sixth Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for Wildest Dreams, a project he dreamed up about Black cultural inheritance while at the Inquirer. His films have also screened at the San Francisco Doc Fest and QFlix, Philadelphia’s premier LGBTQ film festival.

Raishad has an M.S. in Journalism from the Columbia School of Journalism and a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California, where he was honored as Broadcast Journalism Student of the Year.

SERVICES:

Raishad is currently available for the following freelance work in Los Angeles, CA:

• Short documentary cinematography / production support

• Social media/promotional videos

• Corporate/branded video

• Behind-the-scenes videography

• Event videography

• Video editing

Looking to connect? Reach out to raishad.hardnett@gmail.com!