From 60 Seconds to 60 Minutes

For over 28 years, Diva has created, written, produced and edited Emmy award-winning documentaries, live events, short form videos, and web series.

Our Team

Debra Gonsher Vinik, Ph.D.

Producer – Director – Writer

Dr. Debra Gonsher Vinik founded Diva Communications in 1985. She has produced and written 21 documentaries of which 12 have been nominated for Emmy awards and six have won the honors: And The Gates Opened: Women of the Rabbinate (2007), The Eternal Light (2008), Yearning To Belong (2009),  Divine Prescription: Stories of Faith, Health and Community (2013); and Beauty of Their Dreams (2017) and Brightness of Noon: The Intersect of Faith, Immigration and Refugees, Part II (2019). Dr. Gonsher Vinik’s films have aired on ABC, PBS and at film festivals around the world. Her most recent film Attention Must Be Paid: Women Lost in the Opioid Crisis has been or is scheduled to screen at venues ranging from Hazelden Betty Ford Center to Washington State University and the 54thAnnual American Society of Addiction Medicine. It will be edited into a two-part documentary series entitled Listen to the Silence: Women Trapped in the Opioid Epidemic. Airing is scheduled on ABC-affiliated stations nationwide in May and September 2023, followed by a broadcast on PBS.

Dr. Gonsher Vinik began her career as a producer of Bravo Magazine and was head of production for both CBS/Fox Video and Scanline Video. For the last 20 years, Dr. Gonsher Vinik’s documentaries have concentrated on social justice issues seen from a multifaith perspective.

Debra is also the secretary/treasurer of the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission, a 501 (c)(3).

Dr. Gonsher Vinik writes a very intermittent blog on the Mincha Moment: Taking Time to Be Grateful website, which is devoted to the daily practice of gratitude. The list of things Debra is grateful for is HUGE, including cats, malted milk balls, painless dentists, fresh sheets, strong lungs, pedicures, running, Valentine’s Day, old friends, and good health, to name a few.

David Vinik

Producer – Director – Editor

David has over 30 years experience in television. He started his career as an apprentice film editor, eventually moving to directing, shooting and editing his company’s broadcast documentaries, editing news and public affairs programs, creating short films for non-profits and producing fundraising videos for universities.

Shooting in Mbale, Uganda, David and Debra took their cameras to reveal the stories of The Abayudaya, in a remote hilltop village outside of Mbale, Uganda. Over a 10-day period, David followed five rabbis on their official trip to convert the community to Judaism. As a result, they produced Yearning To Belong.

Over the years, he has edited an endless range of programs, at first, with an online inter-format editing system until today with his Avid Media Composers. With 22 broadcast documentaries, six Emmy Awards, and 20 years editing the weekly PBS series Out Of Ireland under his belt, David continues to shoot and edit for educational institutions, NGOs and governmental agencies.

Noorjehan Asim

Impact Manager

Noorjehan Asim is an aspiring filmmaker and fiction writer based in Lahore, Pakistan. She recently graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in Creative Writing and Film and Media Studies. She received honors in the major for writing, directing and producing a short film based on an original novel. Noorjehan intends to pursue professional opportunities in the film space alongside a career in marketing. She enjoys catching up on her watch-list during her free time.

Nominations & Awards

Our Logo

What’s it all about?

The Diva Communications “moving chain” logo takes its inspiration from “Performance Machine – Big O’s” – an iconic Manhattan sculpture by artist Lowell Jones that resided on Park Avenue and 46th street during the 1980s.  The public installation earned praise from the art world for its innovative use of motion and solar energy as two giant interlocking links, or “O’s,” would slowly open and close in four-hour cycles throughout the day.  Like the rotation of the earth, the dynamic sculpture gave little impression of movement unless one had the time and patience to observe it.

“The first day that I passed it, the artwork was in a closed position and miraculously, when I passed the corner a few days later, the artwork was in a completely different position. It was open,” says David Vinik.

Upon closer inspection, Vinik spied a plaque that described a solar-kinetic sculpture that employed the principle of slowly changing form relationships powered by electric motors.

For the Diva team, who were thinking about launching a business, the black fiberglass artwork was not only pure magic but perfectly captured the spirit of their newfound partnership. Debra and David soon commissioned friend and 3D artist Jeff Sargeant to design a digital replica and while the original installation has long since been dismantled, its elegant formalism lives on as the logo for Diva Communications.

Services

The DIVA way

A VIDEO is the most powerful marketing tool on the web, increasing engagement and growing social media reach. We offer a full range of services across the video production spectrum from live events and branding videos to mini-docs and full-length narrative documentaries.

We work with our clients to produce exciting, impactful content that is authentic to their vision. We’re inspired to create a unified brand and media strategy that is tailored to the client’s ever-evolving needs– whether filming a crowdfunding appeal for pioneering start-ups, fundraising videos for non-profits, or branded content and social media campaigns for Fortune 500 companies. Take a look at a few examples below, and don’t hesitate to reach out about your project!

Creative

A complete analysis of the project goals and the client expectations is the first order. Then, the power of storytelling and collaborating with passion takes over and won’t stop until we achieve your mission.

Production

Producing unique videos of all sizes from around the corner to around the world. We tailor the equipment to fit the project. From a small single camera system that becomes inconspicuous to a large multi-camera production – We always have you covered.

Post

Editing is David’s first love. Growing from the original off-line Avid and an inter-format editing suite to a full blown Media Composer Symphony edit system, the Diva edit department has completed projects from 15-second spots to broadcast and feature length documentaries.

Video Production / Interviews

Animations

Drones

Creative – Storytelling

The lifeblood of our videos is the people and stories which inspire and resonate with viewers. Diva is expert at weaving those emotional moments into the fabric of any presentation, enhancing the messaging.

Video Production

  • Complete Production Crews & Equipment Packages
  • HD Sony XDCAM, Sony FS7 II and Panasonic 350 4K cameras
  • ENG Single Camera & Multi-Camera Productions
  • Single & Multi-Camera Live Streaming
  • Green Screen on premises

Post Production

  • Avid Media Composer 8.6 Symphony Suite with Nitris DX
  • Macbook Pro Laptop with Avid Media Composer 2019.7 Editing Software
  • Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects and Illustrator
  • DVD Authoring
  • VO narration booth on premises

Drones

  • 3DR Solo Drone with Gimbal & GoPro
  • Diva embraces UAV technology to add a unique value and capability to our productions.

Music Scoring

  • Our composer scores each musical piece to exactly fit the tenor and length of our projects.
  • Music & Sound Effect Library (available for licensing)
  • Sound Design, editing and mixing with Avid Pro Tools and MOTU Digital Performer

Animations

  • Creative Consulting
  • 2D/3D Concept art
  • Compositing