Loi Ameera Almeron
Loi Almeron is a video producer and editor of award-winning investigative documentaries and is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She majored in Communication Arts at De La Salle University in Manila and started her journalism career with the renowned Probe Productions, pioneer of the longest running investigative documentaries in the Philippines. She associate produced and co-edited at least 20 full length documentaries for national and international broadcast. One of the first documentaries she worked on, “Johnny: A Juan Ponce Enrile Story”, an in-depth profile of the administrator of Martial Law in the Philippines during the Marcos dictatorship, won the Silver World Medal at the New York Film Festivals in 2013.
Her work with Probe ignited her passion for investigative and social justice stories. After two years of documenting stories all around the Philippines, she moved to the United States to pursue her master’s in journalism at University of California, Berkeley. Loi was awarded an International Journalism Student Fellowship and has been active member of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) and Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA). She has since worked for various hyperlocal news outlets, independent documentaries and non-profit organizations focusing on social justice, diversity and current affairs in the Bay Area and in Asia.
Recently, Loi was video editor for the short biographical documentary, “Hale”, directed by Brad Bailey, which won the Student Academy Award for Documentary 2017 and is now a contender for the Oscar for Best Short Documentary 2018.