The Sages Among Us

Val Camp was Born in Oakland and grew up in Union City and Williams California. He graduated Jame Logan High School and then attended San Francisco State University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film in 1990. He then moved to LA in 1991 and began working at Panavision Hollywood where his introduction to Hollywood began. After leaving Panavision in 1993, then began working as a Camera assistant in Hollywood on Feature Films, Commercials, Documentaries and Music Videos. In 2004, he returned to northern California and landed in Grass Valley. Val now works as a Director of Photography locally in our community and does work in the Bay area and internationally. Clients include independent filmmakers, Ford Motor Company and Microsoft. Val works primarily locally at Riparian Studios with Kit Kohler and theywork with a wide variety of clients including Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, Nevada County OES, Sierra Harvest, Community Foundation of Nevada County, Nevada County Superintendent of Schools and The Nevada County Resource Conservation District.

What is The Sages Among Us?

Various hosts and guests take a look at people making a difference. It started out as an innovative book about leadership and civic engagement. Four years later, it’s successfully morphed into a weekly KVMR radio series about, you guessed it, leadership and civic engagement.