ABOUT:

Raishad Momar is a multi- Emmy award winning documentary cinematographer, editor, and video journalist based in Baltimore, Maryland.

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. He co-directed, filmed, and edited “Legendary: "30 Years of Philly Ballroom,” a short documentary about Philadelphia’s LGBTQ ballroom scene, which screened at the 2020 BlackStar Film Festival and won the festival’s Shine Award. He also won the Best Local Short Award at the 2021 Philadelphia Film Festival for his film “Sisters of the Soil,” which documented the struggle for autonomy at a local Black woman owned bookshop in Philly. Most recently, Raishad won his sixth Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for Wildest Dreams, a project he pitched and led to celebrate 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:

• Short documentary cinematography / camera assistance / production support

• Social media/promotional video shooting + editing

• Corporate/branded b-roll and interviews

• Behind-the-scenes videography

• Event videography

• Video editing

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