Our Production Manager and Director of Photography, Darnley R. Hodge Jr., is an award winning producer, director, photojournalist, and filmmaker with more than twenty five years of broadcast and production experience and more than three thousand productions to his credit. Mr. Hodge holds a Master of Arts degree in Producing for Film and Video from American University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communications from Virginia Commonwealth University. His production work has been featured on every national broadcast television network and many national cable stations.
Darnley has served as Producer, Director, Director of Photography, or Editor on countless video and film projects including news gathering, documentary films, reality television, commercials, music videos, travel shows, virtual events and corporate video projects. He co-created, wrote, produced and directed the award winning critically acclaimed black history month series, “The Breakdown” for Viacom/BET Networks. He also produced, directed and edited the critically acclaimed documentary film “The American LOWS” which Courtland Miloy featured in the Washington Post, and is available on Amazon, Xumo and other streaming platforms.
Mr. Hodge has produced and directed countless video and film projects for Imagination Media’s highest profile clients including NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX, COX and NEXSTAR national networks as well as network affiliates in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. Darnley has also worked behind the scenes internationally on television and video productions in Egypt, Cote D’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Brazil, El Salvador, The United Kingdom, Anguilla, and St. Martin to name a few. Darnley also spent several years regularly shooting and editing news stories and feature pieces in Spanish for Telemundo as he is highly conversant in Spanish and speaks a little Portuguese too.
Darnley has been a repeat guest lecturer for media production programs at George Washington University, Howard University, The University of Maryland, American University, and Prince George’s Community College. He is often hired as a private consultant for independent production companies and studios. He currently resides in Oxon Hill, Maryland with his wife and three children.
