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2025 Philadelphia Flower Show
Each year, the annual Philadelphia Flower Show brings thousands of eager visitors the Pennsylvania Convention Center to get an early taste of spring. The show’s theme this year was Gardens of Tomorrow and did not disappoint. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) puts on the show, and I look forward to shooting the Flower Show for […]
Friends Select School Invites Students to Craft Video
As a freelance videographer, one of the perks of my job is the variety of different clients I have. I may be filming theatre one day, the Flower Show the next, or working with talented young students at a local school.Friends Select School (FSS) is one of my clients, and I’ve been working […]
Souls Shot Portrait Project
In Philadelphia, gun violence has long been a problem. Even though 2024 showed a 37% decrease in homicides and a 36% decrease in shootings, every single incident of gun violence causes trauma for individuals, families, and communities. The Souls Shot Portrait Project, an organizations that aims to deal with that trauma, matches families and friends […]
Recent Fundraising Videos
In the last year, I’ve worked on some very different types of fundraising videos. The first was a video for a capital campaign, the second was to raise funds for a new nature preserve, and the last one was to raise funds for an organization that provides services for people with autism. Since 1804, the […]
Flower Show 2023 – PHS
PHS: Flower Show Returns to Convention Center When most people think of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), they immediately think of the Philadelphia Flower Show. But, PHS is much more than the flower show. I have worked with PHS to document the annual flower show for 4 years now. For two years, the show moved […]
Princeton Childhood Development Institute
Videos Bring Human Stories to Light Let’s face it: everyone is different. For most of my childhood, I pretended not to be different. It didn’t really work out though. No matter how hard I tried, I never really fit in. It may be a truism to say that everyone wants to be normal, not different. […]
Dave Tavani
Dave Tavani is a freelance videographer based in Philadelphia specializing in the arts and nonprofit storytelling.