Name:	DOUGLAS BRYAN BAIRD	Douglas Baird
Address:	North Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
Phone:	(604) 643-8811 (messages/pager) (604) 980-8378 (home)
Email:	dbaird@bairdtv.com

Betacam/EFP camera specialist, lighting cameraman and crew provider. Experienced in all aspects of broadcast television production on a wide variety of documentary and current affairs projects for CBC, CTV, ABC, CBS, BBC and NFB.

Own complete SONY Betacam production packages for both PAL/625 and NTSC.

Cameraman - Recent Projects

• Human Genome project - Francis Collins interview
• Arnold Schwarzenegger - the Making of ‘The 6th Day’ - Columbia-Tristar
• APEC - Host Broadcaster pool camera
• Microsoft, Bill Gates Interview - Spectrum Caribiner, London
• 999 Real Life Rescues, BBC - Canadian segments with Michael Buerk
• Algerian Terrorist Bomb Threat - ABC TV News, New York
• Clinton - Yeltsin Summit - ABC TV News, New York
• Three Minutes to Impact - Canadian Segments - The Discovery Channel (UK), York Films
• Treasure Hunters - Host sequences - Econova Productions / National Geographic Television
• Black Sea Environmental Symposium - David Suzuki - Vision TV, Harvey McKinnon Associates
• The Cold Squad - Investigative Reports - A&E, Kurtis Productions
• Janet Jackson - All For You Tour - Press Kit - Virgin Records
• Eddie Murphy - I Spy - Video inserts for boxing sequences - 5 cameras - Sony Pictures
• World Figure Skating Championships - International Skating Union judges iso-camera for the ISU
• A&E Biography - Peter O’Toole - A&E, New York
• Sikhs History - Canadian Segments - BBC Birmingham
• Survivor Testimonies - Survivors of the Shoah Foundation, Los Angeles
• Bayern Munich Soccer CD-ROM Series - DOP - 3 cameras, Munich
• The V-Chip Inventor - Prof. Tim Collings - Le Point, SRC/CBC
• Featherlite Kayaks - Good Morning America - ABC News
• X-Files CDRom project - cast interviews
• Living with AIDS - Documentary - TV Asahi, Tokyo
• Eminem Seattle concert and interviews - Charlotte in America - Viva 2, Cologne
• Field of Dreams - William Kinsella - Author Profile, TBS, Tokyo
• Freedom Speaks - PBS Freedom Forum - Washington
• Balancing Act - Gymnastics for Girls - Hour documentary, Rough Cuts, CBC Newsworld
• The IMAX Story - "Wings of Courage" - Moving Pictures, BBC
• West Coast Forestry - Blue Peter - BBC Children’s Programs
• CIA - Hidden Hands - Documentary - Fulmar/Channel 4, London
• Adbusters vs. Calvin Klein - The Girlie Show, Rapido/Channel 4, UK
• Tony Cavelti Profile - Documentary Profile - DRS Swiss Broadcasting, Zurich
• Clayoquot Logging - Documentary, The Fifth Estate, CBC
• Nicole Brown Simpson - Signature Analysis - Hard Copy, Paramount Pictures, L.A.
• Amory Levins/David Suzuki Interview - Suzuki Foundation
• @discovery.ca - Numerous mini docs and interviews - The Discovery Channel
• Life on the Internet - Program inserts - The Discovery Channel
• The X-Files - Behind the Scenes, Turner Broadcasting
• Dr. Who - Sylvestor McCoy - Interview/behind the scenes - BBC/FOX
• A Day In The Life Of Jackie Chan - Canal Plus, Paris
• Dick Van Dyke - Behind the Scenes, "Diagnosis of Murder", Entertainment Tonight
• Faye Dunaway - "Mother Love", Eye To Eye with Connie Chung, CBS
• U.N. Conference on ’Rights of the Child’ - DOP - 2 camera documentary, educational
• XV Commonwealth Games Victoria - Cycling/Marathon - "live" motorcycle camera crew
• Gretzky Returns - TSN, The Sports Network
• Hankook Ice Challenge & Hankook F-1600 Series - TSN, DOP - 5 cameras

Corporate Video

McDonald's, Chevron, Ford, Bank of America, Dow Chemical, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Continental Airlines, Disney, Sega, Oracle Software, Electronic Arts, MacMillan Bloedell, Home Depot, Nordstrom, Kawasaki, Ballard Power Systems, BC Hydro, BC Transit, CP Rail, CP Air, Northern Telecom, Petro-Canada, UBC and Simon Fraser University.

CBC Television

Ongoing production for - The Fifth Estate, Prime Time News, Marketplace, Venture, Le Point, Canadian Gardener, Sesame Street, and Newsworld (studio & remote double-enders).

Expo '86 - Canada's Broadcast Co-ordinator (Host Broadcaster)

Documentaries, news reports, live satellite feeds, etc., for TV-7 Network and TVO Brisbane (Australia), Film Australia, TF-1 (France), BBC (England), RAI-Rome (Italy), NRK (Norway), TV-2 (Finland), Televisa (Mexico), TVB (Hong Kong) and Good Morning America.

Sports

POV shots and custom rigging for action sequences with Sony Betacam, microcams and 16mm.

Olympics (1976/84), CBC Sportsweekend, Wide World of Sports (CTV & ABC), NHL Hockey, CFL Football and NBA basketball. Skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, cycle road racing. Camera operator for the "live" helicopter / motorcycle unit which covered cycling, marathon and road races for the world feed of the Victoria Commonwealth Games. DOP for a 4-camera instructional video shoot at the World Figure Skating Championships. Documentaries and educational projects for Sport Canada and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

Live Video

Live remotes, satellite uplinks, broadcast 'double-enders’, 2-way television and corporate teleconferencing. Multi-camera shoots, microwave, satellite and telco feeds from remotes.

Producer/Director

Official Olympic Film/Television projects (1976 & 1984). Segments for CTV Wide World of Sports. Educational films for Sport Canada, Sport Ontario and the National Film Board of Canada. Various documentaries and industrial films.

Aerials

Experienced with Tyler & Wescam Helicopter mounts. Handheld shooting and rigging for POV camera mounts.

Interests

Skiing, cycling, scuba diving and travel. Conversational French and Japanese.

Awards

• Columbus International Film & Video Festival
  Bronze Award - Medical/Physical Health ("Cutting Out the Fear" The Fifth Estate)
  Hon. Mention - Social Studies Documentary ("Violation of Trust" The Fifth Estate)
• Canadian Society of Cinematographers (C.S.C.)
  Roy Tash Award - for cinematography in Television News
• National Press Photographers Association (N.P.P.A.) National Spot News Award - (Canada and U.S.A.)

Memberships

• CSC - Canadian Society of Cinematographers
• IATSE 669 - International Photographers Guild - Vancouver
• GTC - British Guild of Television Cameramen

Education

Honours BSc, Kinesiology, University of Waterloo