Oscar Frasser

Affiliations

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  • Adjunct Faculty, Video Production for Visual Storytelling and Oral History

About

Oscar Frasser is a professional image-maker and storyteller with a focus on human rights and Latin American issues. Oscar is an adjunct at OHMA and teaches video production and visual storytelling.

With over 20 years of experience as a filmmaker, cinematographer and photographer, Oscar has worked extensively in the areas of documentary filmmaking, photojournalism, multi-media, and advertising.

 Oscar has won multiple awards in both the United States and internationally for his films and photo exhibitions. He has collaborated as a cinematographer on multiple award-winning projects such as “Pink Boy” a webby award-winning short documentary film on the life of a gender creative boy, “Nefertiti’s Daughters” which premiered world-wide at the prestigious Aspenshorts Film Festival, and “Miss Tibet: Beauty in Exile”, which made it’s world premier at DOC NYC film festival.

Oscar also works in video and photography for the Associated Press at the United Nations and a variety of Latin American publications.  He holds an MA in Media Studies and Documentary from The New School and a BFA in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology.