Jeremey Lavoi is an award winning Producer of television and new media video content. He specializes in non-fiction storytelling. Since the beginning of his television career at Tech TV in 2004, Jeremey has worked for a laundry list of companies at the cutting edge of video and technology. In 2005 he helped launch Current TV, and worked as a staff producer at the network through it’s 2007 Emmy Award winning season. He was Supervising Producer at the social media company Seesmic.com during it’s experiment with creating an online “video conversation” in 2008. As a Producer for his brand JADED, Jeremey has produced non-fiction video and branded content for clients including Pandora, Bank of America, ESPN.com, Redford Center, Causes.com, Institute for the Future, and HarperCollins Publishers. He has also worked on projects for History Channel, Sierra Club, Banana Republic, Virgin Airlines, and many more. Jeremey has a Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.
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Jeremey began his media career in advertising and graphic design in his home state of Louisiana. There he worked for O’Carroll’s Advertising and Lagniappe magazine. He also produced an independent skateboard ‘zine called Jaded, which gave birth to JADED Multimedia shortly before he moved to San Francisco in 2002. TeamJADED Productions was born in 2007, when Abby Berendt Lavoi joined the company.
Jeremey’s television career started with an internship at Tech TV on the late night talk show, Unscrewed with Martin Sargent. After Tech TV moved to Los Angeles to merge with G4, he worked on the production staff of KMTP-SF while finishing his Bachelor’s Degree in English/Creative Writing at San Francisco State University
In 2005 Jeremey joined Current TV and helped launch the network. During his time at Current he worked in various roles as a Field Producer, Segment Producer, Writer, Correspondent, Shooter, and Video Editor. He covered the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, including coverage of the animal rescue effort, and also the impact of the storm on local skateboarders. He also wrote and produced a daily news show about Action Sports called the Yahoo! Current Action Buzz. That show included hosted news segments and documentary style content. At Current TV he learned how turnaround quality content with a small team and a shoe string budget.
In 2008 he joined the originals team at Seesmic Inc, a Social Media company. At Seesmic he was the “jack-of-all-trades production guy” who worked as Supervising Producer, Technical Director, Director of Photography, and head of Post-Production. He oversaw several ongoing web series’, coordinated production units, worked with staff producers in the field, and edited ongoing shows. He also produced coverage of TechCrunch 50 2008. At Seesmic he learned how to synergize a brand’s user community with its content creation, and also how to engage that community with the content.
As an Independent Producer, Jeremey has worked on a variety of projects from branded content campaigns for large brands, television shows, documentary films, book trailers, conference coverage, pharmaceutical marketing, web series, promo videos, and even Action Sports material for ESPN.com. He has worked on virals and political ads. He also offers video production consulting to new media companies. Jeremey prides himself on his ability to make compelling video.