I'm Saleem. I travel the world and make things with crazy teams of amazing freelancers. Mostly videos. Let's be best friends forever. And ever.

Currently: Working for the New York Times on a 10 week project on race in America. Details here!

Other recent clients: LinkedIn, PBS Digital Studios Beat Making Lab, Soccer.com

Recurring interests:
Hip hop, Stop Motion Filmmaking, Filmmaking in general, Writing

Assorted past involvements:
Filmed rappers and beatmakers in Senegal, Ethiopia, Fiji, Panama and Congo for PBS' Beat Making Lab series
Beatboxed in a Japanese Modern Art Museum. 
Photographed the only garbage dump on Easter Island.
Had an incredibly weird 2 year stint as an Art Assistant at Seventeen Magazine
Filmed food-activists in Tahiti.
Wrote stage banter for the National Magazine Design Awards.
Traveled around the world by boat. Twice.
Studied, worked, or hung out in over 50 countries
Fluent in English, Spanish, Japanese and Final Cut.

Services: We 1) meet up with you, 2) find out what you're about and what you need, 3) collaborate on a concept, 4) figure out how to make it happen, and 5) make it happen. 

Frequent collaborators:

The team at Artvsm, founders of international music-education super-project, Beat Making Lab.

Yasmin Reshamwala, Brooklyn-based prop stylist who's worked with clients from high art (Mathew Barney) to fashion (Anthropologie) to commercial (AT&T). (Bonus: Also my sister.)

Gabe Eng-Goetz. Illustrator, designer, work has been featured on sites ranging from MadDecent to Duke University.

...and plenty of others. 

Contact: saleem@kidethnic.com , @kidethnic on Instagram , @kidethnic on Twitter