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Find a Visual Researcher
Use the Alphabet bellow to locate your VRSC Researcher by their Last Name. Or you can also use the Filter Search below to find a VRSC Researcher by Project Type, Research Type, Subject Area and Language.
148 Visual Researchers
Shannon L'Herault
e-mail lherault.sb@gmail.com
City
Montréal
Project Type
Documentary, Feature Films, Dramatic Television, Factual Series, Advertising, Museum Exhibitions, Web Content
Research Type
Visuals Stills, Visuals Footage, Music Clearances, Trademark Clearances, Licensing, Project Management, Editorial Research
Subject Areas
History World, History Canadian, Politics And Current Affairs, Food, Biography, Human Rights, Science And Environment, Popular Culture, Arts And Culture, Nature, Crime, Music, Architecture And Interior Design, Social Studies, Health And Medicine, Business And Law, Sports
Languages
English, French
Sofi Langis
e-mail sofilangis@gmail.com
City
Montreal
Project Type
Documentary, Factual Series
About My Work
I'm am an award-winning independent documentary director, writer and researcher. In almost all of my series and one-off documentaries, I also take on archive research in order to build and write scenes according to what was covered in the past, as well as music research and licensing.
The subjects I tend to work on revolve around the environment, climate change, politics, military and religious conflict (in Canada and abroad), human rights, food and water security, history, women's rights and more.
My pieces have been published on Radio-Canada (Grand Reportage), VICE News, Viceland, The New Yorker, Tou.tv, Quebecor, UNHCR, WWF and more.
Marika Lapointe
e-mail marika3productions@gmail.com
City
Montréal
Project Type
Documentary, Industrials, Factual Series, Museum Exhibitions
Research Type
Visuals Stills, Visuals Footage, Licensing, Project Management, Editorial Research
Subject Areas
History World, History Canadian, History American, History European, History Military, Politics And Current Affairs, Food, Biography, Human Rights, Science And Environment, Popular Culture, Arts And Culture, Crime, Music, Social Studies, Health And Medicine, Business And Law
Languages
English, French
About My Work
I have been researching documentary content for over ten years. I have been at the helm of development and editorial research for a number of doc series and one-offs in both French and English. I also have experience producing, screenwriting and editing.
MaryJo Lavelle
e-mail maryjolavelle@gmail.com
City
Toronto
Project Type
Documentary
Research Type
Visuals Stills
Subject Areas
History World
Languages
English
About My Work
A dual Canadian and British citizen with 20 years' experience in Canada and the United Kingdom as a Visual Researcher. Over the years I have worked for such broadcasters as CBC, CTV and TVO in Canada, as well as top content providers Getty Images and The Imagebank in London, England.
In 2017 I dove into the wacky, wonderful world of freelancing and started my own company, WonderLost Films. Specializing in the research, sourcing, copyright clearance and licensing of archival content for documentary programming; a strong story-teller with firsthand knowledge of copyright issues, rights and clearances, all while keeping under budget!
I work on a freelance basis with a variety of production companies.
Website http://comingsoon!
Melissa Laverdure
City
Halifax
Project Type
Documentary, Feature Films, Factual Series
Research Type
Visuals Stills, Visuals Footage, Music Clearances, Talent Clearances, Licensing, Project Management, Editorial Research
Subject Areas
Biography, Human Rights, Popular Culture, Arts Culture, Architecture, Social Studies, First Nations Issues
Languages
English, French, Spanish, Italian
About My Work
I am a visual researcher & archive producer.
I have over a decade of experience working within the Anchor Archive Zine Library, a unique collection of over 8,000 zines, located on the East Coast of Canada.
Areas of expertise: vintage clothing, vintage cars, historical buildings, peoples history, plants, politics, feminism, LGBTQA2S rights, human rights, biography, animals, water, psychology.
I have worked for Network entertainment, Droga5, Peacock Alley, Real Friends Media, CBC Gem, The Canadian Screen Awards, The Junos, Thunderbird Entertainment, Peacock Alley, and Hot Docs.
Casey Lees
e-mail casey.lees@outlook.com
City
Vancouver
Project Type
Documentary, Feature Films, Industrials, Dramatic Television, Factual Series, Advertising, Web Content
Research Type
Visuals Stills, Visuals Footage, Licensing, Editorial Research
Subject Areas
History World, History Canadian, History American, History Military, Food, Biography, Science And Environment, Popular Culture, Arts And Culture, Nature, Health And Medicine
Languages
English
About My Work
Nominated for a 2022 Canadian Screen Award in Visual Research and with over 7 years of experience working as an Archive Producer and Visual Researcher for documentary films, web media, and factual television series - let me expertly and efficiently source the additional images and footage your project. Whether you need material that’s visually impactful to wow clients, historically or contextually accurate for factual authenticity, or fast and easily licensable to make those tight deadlines - I’ve worked with producers, directors, editors, and researchers to help identify and satisfy their unique research needs.
Website https://caseylees.com/
Zoë Lepiano
e-mail zoelepiano@gmail.com
City
Toronto
Project Type
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Research Type
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Subject Areas
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Languages
English
Rebecca Lessard
e-mail lessard.rebecca@gmail.com
City
Montreal
Project Type
Documentary, Factual Series, Web Content
Research Type
Visuals Stills, Visuals Footage, Music Clearances, Licensing, Project Management, Editorial Research
Subject Areas
History Canadian, History American, Food, Biography, Human Rights, Science And Environment, Popular Culture, Arts And Culture, Nature, Music, Social Studies, Sports, First Nations Issues
Languages
English, French
About My Work
Rebecca Lessard is an emerging film and mediamaker born and raised in Tio’tia:ke / Montreal, with a BA in Communication Studies from Concordia University. She has worked as an editor and writer on multiple television, documentary and digital projects (most recently, the 13-part docuseries GESPE’GEWA’GI: The Last Land), and as an editor and archival/visual researcher on RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World, the Sundance, Hot Docs and Canadian Screen award-winning feature documentary from Rezolution Pictures, The Oka Legacy (CBC Docs), and various other docuseries for APTN. She is also a musician/composer and co-creator of the Roots & Recipes project, and has co-facilitated digital storytelling workshops with refugee youth and and has worked on film and media creation projects with Inuit youth in Nunavik.
Jalana Lewis
e-mail jalana.lewis@gmail.com
City
Toronto
Research Type
Licensing
Subject Areas
Human Rights
About My Work
I am a non-practising lawyer working in Toronto as a researcher on documentary and fictional film projects. I started doing this work in March 2018. Thus far I have worked with producer Alison Duke on the upcoming CBC POV doc Mr Jane & Finch and producer Julie Baldassi on the webseries Book of Dog. Currently I'm working with producer Christine Kleckner on a project in development with CBC POV entitled WEATHERING. As I am emerging in this field, it would be extremely helpful to be a member of a professional group that supports others working in the field. In addition to my legal background I have archival research experience after having worked on the Lord Dalhousie Project for Dalhousie University which took me to London, Scotland and Ottawa in order to complete independent archival work at national archive institutions.
Brian Lightfoot
e-mail brianlightfoot2002@yahoo.ca
City
Baie d'Urfe
Project Type
Documentary, Publishing, Web Content
Research Type
Visuals Footage, Licensing, Project Management
Subject Areas
Science Environment
Languages
English, French
About My Work
Greetings,
You would describe me perhaps as a junior visual researcher. I had the opportunity to perform much of the visual research and permission requests for a documentary my company produced in 2020. Hugh John Murray, one of your members, was our Director for that project. He guided me in doing most of the visual research for our feature documentary, Nobody's Fuel - an engineer's guide to saving the planet, which is available on YouTube.
I am also a web developer, and graphic arts hobbyist and am particularly interested in infographics for concise explanation of complex technical information, applied to film, web, and print.
I was incredibly pleased to find that this role is an actual career, and look forward to learning more about it.
Kind regards,
Brian G. Lightfoot
Kate Lingley
City
Vancouver
Project Type
All Project Types
Research Type
All Types, Visuals Footage
Subject Areas
Popular Culture, Arts And Culture, Music, Social Studies
Languages
English
About My Work
Kate Lingley (Hazelwood Archival) has been a freelance visual researcher for the past decade, with an interest in documentaries about unsung heroes and untold injustices. Her work has premiered at festivals including AFI, DOC NYC, Hot Docs, SXSW, Toronto and Tribeca, distributed by Amazon, Crave, HBO, History, Hulu Netflix, NYT OpDocs, PBS, Sony Pictures Television, and recognized by the Emmys, Grammys, Peabodys, MTV VMAs, and the Advertising Research Foundation.
Connie Littlefield
e-mail connielittlefield@gmail.com
City
Toronto
Project Type
Documentary, Factual Series
Research Type
Visuals Stills, Visuals Footage, Editorial Research
Subject Areas
Politics Current Affairs, Biography, Human Rights, Science Environment, Popular Culture, Arts Culture, Music, Social Studies, Health Medicine, First Nations Issues
Languages
English
About My Work
I'm a filmmaker and researcher with over 20 years of experience. My primary focus is on the documentary genre. My research work has been honoured with 4 Canadian Screen Award nominations for Best Research, both Visual and Editorial. I've worked on films about a wide range of subjects, such as psychedelic drugs, mental health, politics, environmental science, and hockey.
Lanna Lucas
e-mail lanna@vanresearch.ca
City
Richmond
Project Type
Documentary, Feature Films, Dramatic Television, Factual Series
Research Type
Visuals Stills, Visuals Footage, Music Clearances, Talent Clearances, Licensing, Project Management, Editorial Research
Subject Areas
History World, History Canadian, History American, History European, History Military, Politics And Current Affairs, Food, Biography, Geography, Human Rights, Science And Environment, Popular Culture, Arts And Culture, Nature, Crime, Music, Social Studies, Business And Law, Sports, First Nations Issues
Languages
English
About My Work
Lanna is an award-nominated Archival Producer who possesses over 15 years’ experience, with 10 years devoted to Film/TV. Although she got her start in story research, she eventually focused on archival research, licensing and clearances, and music licensing. She has been asked to come on at any stage of production - from pre-production to post-production - where she is used to handling assets from acquisition, budgeting, negotiation, execution and delivery. Her work has premiered at TIFF, SXSW, has peaked at the No. 1 documentary on iTunes, and has been commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada. Lanna is a member of the Visual Researchers Society of Canada and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. Most recently she served as the Archival Supervisor for an FBI true crime docuseries for CBS and the Archival and Clearance Producer for Spotify and Hulu's Rapcaviar Presents.
IMDb: www.imdb.me/lannalucas
Website: www.vanresearch.ca
Website http://www.vanresearch.ca
Laura Lucas
e-mail laura@bigpictureresearch.com
City
Collingwood, Ontario
Project Type
Documentary, Feature Films, Industrials, Dramatic Television, Factual Series, Publishing, Web Content
Research Type
Visuals Stills, Visuals Footage, Music Clearances, Talent Clearances, Licensing
Subject Areas
History Canadian, History American, History Military, Politics And Current Affairs, Human Rights, Science And Environment, Crime, Music
Languages
English
About My Work
Laura Lucas is an Archival Producer/Researcher and Rights Clearance Officer with over 25 years of experience in the media market. She's worked extensively with TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, with freelance video producers, alongside libraries and archives, and in radio news. Operating as Big Picture Research, she's driven by the thrill of the hunt to find the perfect image that can help bring a story to life and clear the underlying permissions for its use. Recent projects include: documentaries, scripted series and educational course projects. To see a full list of work experience, please visit www.bigpictureresearch.com