For over 10 years, filmmaker Gerson Damiani has been working as director, producer and cinematographer for Documentary Films, Commercials and Reality TV shows around the globe.

A graduate of UCLA Film, TV and Digital Entertainment programs, Damiani is co-founder of D&D Films, operating out of Berlin, Los Angeles and São Paulo. D&D Films has undertaken a myriad of commercial and industrial productions since 1999.

Gerson Damiani also concluded undergraduate and graduate programs in Law, Economics, International Relations and Political Science through Hamilton College in New York, Duke University, Freie Universität and Humboldt Universität in Berlin, as well as the Sorbonne and Sciences Po in Paris.

Damiani is a member of NAPTE (National Association of Television Program Executives), and the IDA (International Documentary Association). In Los Angeles, he contributes to Educational Communications, a non-profit organization founded in 1958, dedicated to improving the quality of life on this planet; there, he offers his expertise in production, principal photography and post-production to ECONEWS, an award-winning television series in its 24th year with over 500 programs, covering topics such as sustainable development and the problems and solutions of the global ecological crisis. He is currently directing three documentary films – White Gold, Wonderful Life and Power to Heal – and producing two documentary film series – Invisible Revolution and Delicious.

For many years, Damiani has been acting as mediator and since 1995 he has been actively involved with the topic of Commercial Arbitration worldwide. In Vienna, Damiani is the editor of the Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration. In the United States, Damiani works as a volunteer for California Lawyers for the Arts, helping people in the creative arts and art organizations through dispute resolution and educational programs.  In Brazil, Damiani contributes to several academic and research groups, as it pertains to the awareness and understanding of international conflict resolution.

Genuinely aware of multicultural traditions and differences, Gerson Damiani is a certified translator and interpreter of English, French, German and Portuguese. Aka JAY, Damiani is a passionate swimmer and mountain-biker.