Olivia Mowry

Producer • Director • Editor • Video Strategist

A Jill-of-all-Trades video producer and content strategist with 10+ years of experience specializing in translating complex ideas into engaging content for digital audiences.

Selected Video Work at Center for American Progress

This Post-it note driven shortform explainer launching a state-level Citizens United reversal policy went viral on Reddit with 4M+ views, 1.5K comments, and over 13K shares.
Director • Editor

Production management was key for this video, which included a two-day trip to film in Toronto followed by scripting and editing the final product in less than a week to premiere before 50K+ conference attendees.
Camera • Editor

Tapping into audience anxiety over the election results, this forward-looking state and federal ERA explainer became CAP’s best-performing video on Twitter/X in 2024 with 78K+ views.
Director • EditorMotion Graphics

Produced in collaboration with podcast team, I was camera operator and lead editor on this episode of The Tent podcast featuring Gov. Walz,
Camera • Editor

This printed image and motion-graphics driven explainer distills complex U.S.-India relations into a 90-second explainer.
Director • EditorMotion Graphics

In collaboration with climate policy team, I led this on-location shoot with union workers in Wisconsin and oversaw the edit with an outside contractor.
Lead Producer Director • Camera

Video Work at USC Annenberg

An unconventional tour of the school’s Media Center, with most of the footage shot in a single day.
Director • Camera • EditorMotion Graphics

An award-winning video about how a student took her journalism classwork abroad.
Camera • Editor

One of L.A.’s earliest Black newspapers is also a family heirloom for an Innovation Lab fellow.
Editor • Motion Graphics

A quick, short-form video covering Mahershala Ali’s speaking event at USC Annenberg.
Camera • Editor

Part of the Faculty Focus video series, this profile of a USC Annenberg professor gained over 87K views on YouTube.
Camera • Editor

A highlight reel from USC Annenberg’s 2019 Commencement Program, where I had free rein on and around the stage to capture the best footage of the event.
Camera • Editor

Personal Video Projects

The story of how Dorothea Lange’s photos of Japanese American internment captured what the government didn’t want the world to see.
Director • Camera • Editor

A look into the incredible life of early Los Angeles trailblazer Biddy Mason.
Director • Editor

The viral Frozen musical parody with over 5 million views and counting.
Director • Camera • Editor

HerHistoria

As part of my capstone project for my Master’s degree in Digital Social Media, I created an experimental narrative TikTok series called HerHistoria. Through multiple episodes, the series explored the lives of two women in history using their own words—while pushing the boundaries of short-form storytelling.
Director • Writer • Camera • EditorMotion Graphics

Setting out to be the change she wanted to see in the world, Shirley Chisholm was the first woman and Black American to make a serious run for the U.S. presidency,

“You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines.”

Asian American actress Anna May Wong paved her own path in the golden-age Hollywood where she fought against racist stereotypes.

“The most unpredictable game in the world is the movies.”

Video Work At BuzzFeed

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