Mito Habe-Evans
Mito Habe-Evans (she/her) co-manages NPR's Video team and is responsible for the creative direction and sensibility of NPR videos. She leads the team in its pursuit of projects that are "smart with heart," from the comedic economics explainer series to the short film , a national portrait of teens and guns. She developed NPR's signature documentary style with and .
She splits her time acting as Supervising Producer for various ongoing series and stepping into the field as Director/Producer/Editor on format-breaking enterprise projects. Some of her stranger productions have involved stitching together performing in a flatbed truck, filming a on the steps of the Brooklyn Public Library, wrangling on a miniature apartment set, completing 4 scene and wardrobe changes around Bob Boilen in a and stringing together 14 scenes into two videos.
She created the series Front Row, developing NPR's style and technical capacity for multi-camera live concert video, highlights of which include and . She created the series, where she established a cinematic style for intimate performances in unusual locations. Highlights include in a Brooklyn prop house, Brody Dalle in an , and Mac DeMarco . She brought this cinematic and intimate aesthetic to NPR's interviews with and , and to the Noteworthy series featuring and .
She received her B.A. in Molecular & Cell Biology, Neurobiology at UC Berkeley and worked in a lab at Northwestern University before taking a professional turn and entering the photojournalism master's program at the University of Missouri. She lives in Brooklyn.
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