George began his television career in the 1980s as a freelance Cameraman NBC News in the Caribbean and Latin America. He covered hundreds of national and international stories from the Mariel boatlift from Cuba, to the fall of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, from the Iran Contra Affair to the overthrow of “Baby Doc” Duvalier in Haiti. He was there when Mel Fisher discovered the wreck of the Atocha and he won the National Press Photographer’s Award for “Fragile Monarch”, an NBC documentary chronicling the migration of Monarch Butterflies from Canada to the mountains of Mexico.

An avid scuba diver George developed his own proprietary underwater video camera housing system and called it the Sea-Cam for which he holds the US patent and with which he produced numerous underwater programs and won numerous underwater cinematography awards. Through his company, Sea-Cam, Inc., he produced the “Sea-Cam Journal” underwater television series which aired on the Travel Channel for over three years and gained him several Telly Awards. His children’s special “The Funniest and Friendliest Fish in the Sea” was licensed by Nickelodeon and gained him another Telly.

Spending so much time in the edit room crafting these longer projects, George became a skilled online editor and built a state-of-the-art facility within a larger post house, known as Video QuickLab in Fort Lauderdale, FL, where he became chief editor and eventually head of post production. He later parted ways with QuickLab and formed Media Solutions, a cutting edge digital production company specializing in digital acquisition, digital post-production, and digital delivery of electronic media for companies wishing to promote and market themselves via the internet.

Seeing the direction of digital media, George knew it was only a matter of time before feature films would be shot and edited digitally. This is what prompted him to be one of the first South Florida purchasers of the revolutionary Red Digital Cinema camera in 2008. George became highly skilled in shooting and editing on the Red Digital system and was one of the first people in the world to take a Red Camera underwater, with a housing of his own design. Now he is able to work as quickly and efficiently under the water as he does above, both on television and motion picture projects.

PRODUCTIONS (Short List)
“Johanna and the Whale” in development Writer/Director“Infidel” a psycho-spiritual half hour television drama, Writer/Director“Bummed Out” comedy television series DP/Editor“Deserted” Award Winning short film, Cinematographor“Smooth Operator” 10 minute short, Cinematographer, Colorist“The Bridge” faith based family feature film, Writer“Altered Oceans Acrid Seas” Producer, Assistant Editor“1955 Seven Days of Fall” baseball documentary, Cinematographer“Jewish Jewels” television series, Editor “Fast Focus” Interstitial programming for PBS, Editor“Friendliest and Funniest Fish in the Sea” Nickelodeon underwater comedy, Writer/Director
“Sea-Cam Journal” half hour underwater television series, Travel Channel Producer/DirectorOver 200 national news stories for NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN & TBN Over 500 national and local commercials as Director/Cinematographer/Editor

PARTIAL CLIENT LIST:
Nikon Corp., IBM, Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, Celebration Cruise Line, Caribbean Criuise Line, Perry Ellis, Cirque, Temptress Cruises, Aggressor Fleet, BMW, Xenadrine, Contour Products, Ramada Resorts, Galapagos Network, Blackbeard Cruises, Ford, Miami Heart Institute, Holy Cross Hospital, Global Yachts, Peter Glenn Ski & Sport

POSITIONS HELD
Owner, Chief Editor - Media Solutions, 2000 - Present
Media Solutions Production and Post Production is a commercial production company specializing in travel-related commercials and corporate films for cruise lines including Caribbean and Celebration Cruise Lines as well as direct response product-oriented commercials for clients such as Contour Pillows, Xenadrine, Lifewave, AcuOne, MyPlace and many more. George wore multiple hats on most of these productions as Script Writer, Director, DP, and/or Editor. He has completed over 1,000 commercial and video production for Television, DVD and Online Distribution.

Owner, Sea-Cam Inc. This is the company George founded to produce underwater television programs and documentaries using the specialized underwater housings and cameras that he has designed. George Monteiro holds the patent on the Sea-Cam the first commercially marketed consumer underwater video camera housing. Since that time, George has used his cameras in productions for NBC News, CBS Sports, ABC Sports, the Travel Channel, Nickelodeon channel and countless foreign networks.

Chief Editor, Video QuickLab 1990 - 2000 Editing commercial and corporat