WRITER | DIRECTOR | PHOTOGRAPHER | DESIGNER

Eva Saunders

About


food geek 🥧
stay-at-home cat mom 😻
Ger-Merican 🥨
social impact storyteller 🌱

 

Eva is a passionate bilingual entertainment professional who was born and raised in Germany. Since she moved to Los Angeles in 2013, she brought her organizational skills to a variety of assistant positions and honed her storytelling skills as a short form editor, writer and and director, for example at Buzzfeed’s “Tasty” branch and produced a variety of award winning short films (scroll down this page to see samples!)

Seeing herself as a bridge between German and American culture, she has been using her language skills to translate and proofread German content for renowned players in the entertainment industry. Eva now lives on the East Coast and is looking forward to find opportunities that combine her excellent communication skills with her creative drive and her love for teaching.


Skills


Adobe Premiere
90%
Adobe Photoshop
85%
Adobe InDesign
80%
Final Draft
90%
MS Office
80%

📃 writing

screenplays in both English & German

 

📺 directing

narrative & factual content

 

✂️ editing

reels, BTS material, narrative

📸 photography

headshots, stills, BTS, commercial

 

📊 graphic design

pitch decks, posters, flyers

 

💡 translation

subtitles/texts from and to German


Experience


🎞  freelance writer & director since 2004
&
📷  freelance photographer since 2007
&
💡  freelance translator since 2019

Buzzfeed Motion Pictures
Conceptualizing, shooting, editing and assisting food videos for Buzzfeed’s “Tasty” page; Translating videos and recipes for German page “Einfach Tasty”

 

BobCat Studios
Ideation for Unscripted Development,
Pitch Deck creation,
Sizzle reel editing

Constantin Film (LA)
Script notes/coverage,
office management,
project & talent research
for Freeform TV series

 

Pomona College
Creative writing and planning of German classes,
designing event material,
assisting & teaching German classes