R. Perez
Night highway, the driver's face in the rearview mirror
Filmmaker · Director of Photography · New Orleans

Randall
Perez

I'm a documentary filmmaker in New Orleans. For more than twenty years I've made non-scripted television, documentaries, and independent films — for A&E, Discovery, National Geographic, and others. I co-founded Timecode, a nonprofit film organization, and I build tools for field production.

01 / Television

Selected non-scripted work

Ozark Law

Co-Executive Producer · A&E · Seasons 1–2 · 2024–2026

At the Lake of the Ozarks, a quiet community transforms into one of America's busiest vacation destinations, challenging the law enforcement officers who keep order on the water, the roads, and everywhere in between.

120 Hours Behind Bars

Director of Photography · Discovery · Seasons 1–2 · 2026

Over five intense days, an unfiltered look inside America's toughest jails — where officers are outnumbered, cellblocks are overcrowded, and violence erupts without warning.

Life Below Zero: Port Protection

Field Producer · National Geographic Channel · Seasons 4–5 · 2021–2022

A remote Alaskan community where a handful of people have left the modern world behind, and survival depends on the land, the sea, and each other.

Dino Hunters

Supervising Field Producer · Discovery · Seasons 1–2 · 2019–2021

Cowboys and ranchers rely on their deep knowledge of the land to search for prehistoric dinosaur fossils — from T. rexes and Triceratops to rare and disputed species.

The Toe Bro

Co-Executive Producer · A&E · 2018–2019

A foot specialist treats patients with some of the most extreme foot conditions.

Nightwatch

Field Producer · A&E · Seasons 2–3 · 2015–2016

Hourlong episodes follow emergency responders in New Orleans who work the busy, unpredictable 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. shift, battling time and circumstances while attempting to save lives.

A deckhand in the rigging of an Alaskan fishing boat A figure on the mast of a boat against a storm sky
02 / Commercial

Spots

Experian Experian Money App — featuring Flau'jae Johnson Director of Photography · 2025
Aired during the Women's Final Four
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Vans Vans × Humidity — Half Cab drop Co-Director (with Ricardo Barrosse) · Producer · 2022 Release campaign for the Vans collab with Humidity, New Orleans.
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Venture Venture Trucks — "It's Gotta Be the Trucks" Co-Director (with Ricardo Barrosse) · 2021
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03 / Independent Films

Documentaries

A Louisiana shrimp boat at first light
01 Golden Meadow Co-Director (with Jackie Shulman) · Producer · Candlelight Folklore Society · 2010–present Cajun fishermen and native Houma Indians work to hold onto a way of life as the Louisiana wetlands disappear — and then the Gulf oil spill hits.
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02 Liminal South — The Brumley Haunted Castle House Co-Director (with Holly Hobbs) · DP · Editor · Candlelight Folklore Society · ongoing A documentary series about the unseen South — folklore, hauntings, and the people who live with them. Made with Holly Hobbs under Candlelight Folklore Society, the production company they run together.
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04 / Timecode

The nonprofit

Co-Founder & Director · Nonprofit film organization · New Orleans · 2003–present

Timecode

Timecode screens independent and experimental film, runs the Timecode Film Festival, the One Reel Super 8 Contest, and the Joint Picture Project, has produced seven seasons of its broadcast series, and publishes two podcasts, Timecode Presents and Timecode: Dead Air.

  • — Timecode Film Festival
  • — One Reel Super 8 Contest
  • — Joint Picture Project
  • — Broadcast series · seven seasons
  • — Timecode Presents & Timecode: Dead Air

timecodenola.com →

05 / Tools

Software for the field

Verbena Street Labs · iOS app for field producers · In final testing

Hot Sheet

Hot Sheet builds the daily report during the shoot day instead of after it. Notes are timecode-stamped as they're taken, stories graded, releases tracked; at wrap it exports as PDF, Word, or RTF and goes to the distribution list. Works offline. Built by a working field producer.

verbenastreetlabs.com →