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Client films, editorial assignments, documentaries and aerials. Favorites first, then the latest.

Still from a New York Times video story shot in Minneapolis by Ben Garvin

Editorial · The New York Times

Covering the Minneapolis ICE surge for The New York Times

Principal Mauri Melander Friestleben with students at Lucy Laney Elementary in north Minneapolis, from Love Them First

Documentary · duPont–Columbia Award

Love Them First: Lessons from Lucy Laney Elementary

PBS NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown, producer Lena Jackson and Ben Garvin with the St. Paul skyline behind them

Editorial · PBS NewsHour

Behind the lens: shooting two stories for PBS NewsHour in the Twin Cities

Reporter Leah Lemm in a canoe among tall wild rice stalks, knocking rice with wooden sticks

Documentary · Midwest Emmy

Finding Manoomin: an Emmy-winning documentary with MPR News and TPT

Ben Garvin filming NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg at the Westminster Town Hall Forum in Minneapolis

Client work · Westminster Town Hall Forum

Exploring ethics with the Westminster Town Hall Forum

An interview being filmed outdoors at the Minnesota State Fair as crowds walk past the 4-H Building

Client work · Minnesota 4-H / University of Minnesota Extension

A campaign video for Minnesota 4-H and the State Fair building everyone loves

Ben Garvin, Emily Hanford and Lindsey Seavert with an APM Reports colleague in a Washington, D.C. office lobby

Client work · APM Reports / American Public Media

Behind the scenes on 'Sold a Story,' APM Reports' breakout podcast

Students collaborating around a table late at night during Macathon at Macalester College

Client work · Macalester College

Macathon: 24 hours of student startups at Macalester College

A youth program leader embracing children in a Minneapolis park

Client work · The Minneapolis Foundation

A short film for The Minneapolis Foundation's Fund for Safe Communities

Placeholder aerial of an energy site, standing in for the Sherco Solar sheep footage

Drone · Xcel Energy

Waves of wool: drone video of 2,000 sheep at Xcel Energy's Sherco Solar project

A family at the doorway of their home in Minnesota, from the documentary for Minnesota Housing

Documentary · Minnesota Housing

Minnesota Housing: a short documentary on home and hope

A Macalester College student guide speaks to camera on the campus lawn in St. Paul

Client work · Macalester College

A scripted campus tour video for Macalester College (eleven minutes!)

Aerial view of the solar array at the Sonnentag Center, from the Xcel Energy video

Client work · Xcel Energy

An Xcel Energy video at UW–Eau Claire's new Sonnentag Center

Placeholder: a studio portrait from the Love Them First production

Client work · Macalester College

Student spotlight: Alex Bordelon at the Minnesota Museum of American Art

Still from the documentary Emily Hope

Emily Hope: the opening scene

Aerial view of rocky shoreline with waves and a runner, placeholder frame

Minnesota from above: a drone reel

The State Fair Ear

Black-and-white portrait of an older man with eyes closed in window light

Thirty years of stills