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Estee Bardanashvili

Media Producer

Location United States

Biography

Inspiring learning through humanitarian, educational, and entertainment content.

Estee is an award-winning, Emmy-nominated supervising producer with extensive experience creating impactful, mission-driven multimedia projects for Sesame Workshop around the world. Specializing in social impact, educational, and cross-platform entertainment content for children and adults, she has led diverse teams in producing award-winning series, digital media, documentaries and live events. Estee’s work in multimedia production for early childhood development and humanitarian crisis response has reached millions worldwide. A multilingual global citizen, she is a proud member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, recurring panelist at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, judge for children’s media festivals, and has also built global partnerships and trained teams in media production.

Who Estee Helps:

  • Nonprofit Organizations: Creating educational series and community engagement initiatives, training production teams, and ensuring culturally relevant content is that fosters long-term resilience and development.
  • Broadcast and Media Partners: Producing commercial and social impact educational TV/Radio and digital content, enhancing cross-platform engagement, expanding reach, and addressing diverse educational, cultural, and socio-emotional needs.
  • International Aid and Humanitarian Agencies: Developing multimedia projects promoting early childhood education, inclusion, learning through play, and supporting diverse communities, while expanding their reach and sustainability.  
  • Educational Institutions and NGOs: Creating learning experiences to support early childhood development and tailoring content to meet the needs of children, educators, and caregivers.
  • Governments and Donors: Producing initiatives, building partnerships, and improving access to education in undeserved and crisis-affected regions.

How Estee Helps: Estee focuses on understanding client objectives, researches unique needs of the audiences, and collaborates with partners globally to deliver culturally relevant, engaging, sustainable and impactful product.

Engagement Tools:

  • Multimedia content: Engaging audiences through content for various platforms, social media, museums, and live events.
  • Workshops and training: Facilitating content creation workshops, digital storytelling, and training producers (of all ages!).
  • Cross-platform distribution strategies: Expanding reach through multi-platform distribution.
  • Collaborative partnership: Enhancing content creation and fostering engagement of production teams, educators, NGOs, and stakeholders.
  • Crisis-based content development: Developing content under tight logistical, crisis/emergencies, and financial constraints, leveraging funding, research, and partnerships.

Notable Achievements: Estee has led production of award-winning series, groundbreaking multimedia content, and humanitarian initiatives reaching millions of children and their caregivers around the world. Her most notable productions include Sesame Street’s longest-running adaptations in Europe of “Sesamstrasse” (Germany) and “Sesamstraat” (the Netherlands), TV/Radio/Outreach series in Afghanistan “Baghch-e-Simsim”, “Ahlan Simsim” initiative in the MENA region, “Ahlan Simsim Iraq” expansion and “Welcome Sesame: Ukraine” programs.

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Notes

Education:  BA – New Media and Economics / International Finance, AA – Fashion Design/ Merchandising, AA – Class of Piano

Languages: English, Russian, Georgian (fluent), Hebrew, Spanish, Ukrainian (proficient)

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