Background

Volchan O’Conor is experienced in producing and editing narrative-driven media for organizations in technology, education, public service, and the arts, bringing a blend of creative storytelling, technical expertise, and collaborative energy. Her background as a director, producer, camera operator, drone pilot, and editor gives her an appreciation for each phase of the production process, from scripting to post, and a keen sense of how every creative choice supports the larger narrative.

She has embraced such media forms as: feature-length documentaries, interactive virtual tours, virtual reality, sizzles, product demos, how-tos, fundraisers, short and long-form educational content, testimonials, social cutdowns, fundraisers, podcasts, etc.

Technically, she is fluent in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, and 3DVista, and experienced using Adobe Audition and Media Encoder. A native English speaker, she also speak Portuguese, Mandarin-Chinese, American Sign Language, Spanish (basic), French (basic).

Clients have included Techstars, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, the History Colorado center’s Colorado Encyclopedia, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center, the Boulder Library Foundation, Colorado Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (COEHDI), the Universal Baby Project, Roundup River Ranch, etc.

She has led productions at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Denver Museum of Nature & Science, the Russian State Museum, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Kremlin Museum, etc.

Feature-length documentay, 'Pioneers,' which Volchan O'Conor directed, produced, filmed, and edited won ‘Best Colorado Feature’ at the DocuWest Film Festival and has been broadcast on RMPBS and CPT and screened at the History Colorado Center, the Center for Colorado Women’s History, the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Art Museum, etc.

She collaborated with Director Judith Wechsler as an editor on five feature-length biographical documentaries: ‘Isaiah Berlin: Philosopher of Freedom’, 'Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination', 'Aby Warburg Metamorphosis and Memory,' 'The Passages of Walter Benjamin' and ‘Nahum N. Glatzer and the German-Jewish Tradition’, which are distributed online by Hoopla and circulated by the Museum of Modern Art, New York's circulating film library. These films have been screened at the Harvard Art Museum, Princeton University, Oxford University, NYU's Institute for the Humanities, London's Warburg Institute, the Jerusalem Film Festival, etc.

Volchan O'Conor previously worked as a contributing reporter and research assistant for the New York Times in Rio de Janeiro, as an English-language coach for actress Zhang Ziyi ('Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon'), as an assistant to actress Tang Wei ('Lust Caution') and assistant unit publicist on Michael Mann's 'Blackhat', and as the producer and director of 'AmeriCooking', a 262 four-minute episode web series delivering American culinary culture to Chinese audiences. She collaborated with Black Cube, the Denver based nomadic art museum, on an audio tour of their Gold Hill exhibit, and for over four year, worked closely with the Techstars Global Education Team in a production and post-production capacity, creating educational content for tech entrepreneurs around the world. She co-produced the Venture Deals revamped course in 2022, editing social cutdowns.