Name : George Monteiro

Website : www.msolutions.tv

George Monteiro began his Television and Film production career as a freelance Cameraman for NBC in the Caribbean and Latin America. He covered the Mariel boatlift from Cuba in the early 80s, the fall of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, the overthrow of “Baby Doc” Duvalier in Haiti, to name a few. He also shot “kinder, gentler” stories such as “Fragile Monarch” an NBC documentary chronicling the migration of Monarch Butterflies from Canada to the mountains of Mexico for which he won the National Press Photographers award.

His passion for the sea and underwater video production brought him to the point of forming Sea-Cam, Inc. specializing in Underwater Video Production. George also won numerous awards for his underwater video work on Sea-Cam Journal television series which he produced for the Travel Channel and the “Funniest and Friendliest Fish in the Sea” produced for Nickelodeon.

In the 90’s George headed up the Broadcast Post Production for QuikBiz Internet Group and In 2000 he formed Media Solutions specializing in commercials, music videos, travel destination films and documentaries. He is currently in production fo his first Independent Feature Film, "Johanna and the Whale" which is being shot on the new RED digital cinema camera in the Bahamas and South Florida where he currently lives.