Who We Are:
John Van Daam
John Van Daam, founder of California Video Productions, received a BA degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and attended graduate school at UCLA and Cal Berkeley before launching a career in public service and later video. He began a career as a professional videographer/producer after working for ten years as a community organizer involved with environmental and social justice issues and as an administrator/teacher at New College of California in San Francisco. After staging the first California statewide convention for recycling with the Berkeley Ecology Center, Van Daam became aware of the power of video and developed a passionate connection to the art form. He began generating tapes in the field of resource recycling. A video about yard waste recycling was shown at the Earth Summit in Brazil.
One of our most recent projects involved the creation of a promotional
video “business card” for the University of the Pacific’s Brubeck
Institute. Excerpts from this video can be seen on the home
page.
We also travelled to Italy to make a video slide show for Siena
Sojourn, a semester abroad program. See our slide show page
for an excerpt.
California Video Productions generates videos for corporations, schools, universities, organizations and individuals. CVP has made tapes for the World Health Organization, the Environmental Protection Agency, Digital Equipment, Kaiser Permanente, Prudential Life Insurance, American Express and Fireman's Fund, to name just a few. A series of recruitment tapes was created for the Berkeley Unified School District's Magnet School Program. A promotional tape for the Newport Pacific’s Tiger Fund helped generate $900 million in investment capital. Speeches by Presidents Carter, Reagan and Ford were recorded at their respective Presidential offices for a San Francisco Chamber of Commerce video.
Our productions include documentaries, signature videos, promotional videos, demonstration and training videos. We also create special event and family history videotapes.
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