Discover Top Documentary DPs in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Paweł Kacprzak DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY dob: 07th of April, 1983 about me: Director of photography with the international experience on various film forms such as: feature film, documentaries, commercials, music videos, art forms, short films and individual projects. (filming in Europe, South and North America: USA, Brazil, Asia: India, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh and more) My works were screened at numerous FILM FESTIVALS including: -Cannes, Marche du Film 
France, EU -Santa Barbara International Film Festival, SBIFF, USA 
 -Shanghai International Film Festival SIFF, CHINA 
 -Indian Film festiwal IFFLA, USA 
 -Indian Film Festival of Cincinnati, USA 
 -IFFSA Toronto, CANADA 
 -New York Indian Film Festival NYIFF, USA 
 -Bushwick Film Festival , USA 
 -Dharamshala International Film Festival DIFF, INDIA 
 -International Thai Film Festival, THAILAND 
 Hobbies: photography, painting, cars, music and history My biggest success is my family and my job which is also my passion Here you can find my portfolio: Narrative Reel https://vimeo.com/507108361 Documentary Reel. https://vimeo.com/383734393 Best Regards Paweł Kacprzak Here is the list of my equipment: CAMERA: Varicam LT Panasonic, B Camera: Z cam S6 Vintage Prime Lenses: 20mm, 28mm, 35mm, 58mm, 85mm, 135mm, 100mm macro Zoom lenses: 16-35mm f2.8, 24-70mm f2.8, 80-200mm f2.8. Lighting: Forza 200 LED Monolight NanLite with soft box and grid, 2x LED panels Audio: Saramonic UwMic9 RX9 + TX9 + TX9, Shotgun Mic Rode NTG grip: ROAD JIB PRO crane, stabilizer Zhiyun-Tech Weebill‑S (only for small cameras. Perfectly works with z cam) DRONES: DJI Mavic Air and DJI Mavic Air2

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Hello! I am an independent producer, editor, and video journalist living in Berlin, Germany, originally from the US. My work ranges from music videos to corporate documentaries to short fiction films, although I've always had a passion for free-form documentary film that seeks to raise social awareness. My film credits include post-production editing and office work on the Oscar-nominated film Trouble the Water, Michael Moore's most recent film Capitalism: A Love Story, and the upcoming Morgan Spurlock-produced documentary, Dancing in Jaffa. I have always devoted a significant amount of time to the discoveries of travel, various cultures, and the human spirit, and hope to convey this understanding and emotions in my film work and everyday life. I graduated from Wesleyan with a BA in film in 2010 and now reside in Berlin, Germany, continuing to make creative and fun work.

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Hello there! I'm Casey, a Commercial Director/DP, with a focus on Post Production, Currently based in Germany. I primarily focus on creating short form content for Brands, Individuals and Fashion Companies for their various social media platforms. I am also a Co-Director of the AMVCA Award winning feature Film "PROMISES". https://clugada.myportfolio.com/work

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My team and I have a passion for tackling complex subjects like LGBTQIA+ and migration, as well as business and technology. We take pride in creating captivating, thought-provoking content that engages and resonates with audiences.

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Rick Minnich is an American independent filmmaker based in Berlin, Germany. He holds a B.A. in English from Columbia University and an MFA equivalent in film directing from the Film University Babelsberg "Konrad Wolf” in Germany. Rick Minnich has been writing, directing and producing shorts and feature documentaries since 1993 through his companies Rickfilms and Our Man in Berlin, and in association with various German broadcasters, film funds, and production companies. His award-winning films include: HEAVEN ON EARTH (50 min., 2001, IDFA, Fipa d'Or Biarritz), HOMEMADE HILLBILLY JAM (80 min, 2005, Premiere at HotDocs, closing night film True/False 2006, distributed by First Run Features), FORGETTING DAD (84 min, 2008, Premiere: IDFA - Special Jury Award, True/False, Full Frame, Hot Docs, Grand Jury Prize at GZ DOC in Guangzhou, China, Shortlisted for the German Film Award 'Lola' - German Oscar), THE BOMB HUNTERS (52 min., 2015), THE STRAIT GUYS (99 min., 2022).

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After traveling the world on a bicycle for almost two years, Heiko Aufdermauer has studied FILM DIRECTION at HFF Konrad Wolf in Babelsberg. In 2008, he was rewarded with a DAAD post-graduate scholarship for Kolkata / India. Apart from a documentary in Eastern Germany (JAPAN IS UNDERNEATH), many times he worked abroad: in India, he shot the shortfilm DIVINE DURGA and in Iran, he did ZAAR – both for arte. His artistic roots are alike in narrative film (e.g. the award winning feature film ZEIT DER FISCHE ) as well as in internationally successful experimental work (Förderpreis dt. Film in Hof, Oberhausen, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Houston). In addition to his work on two new feature films, in recent years, he directed and shot as D.O.P. hundreds of commercials, scenes, music clips and short films as commissioned work. This created a virtuosity in dealing with a wide variety of genres and narrative possibilities within the short form. Beside his work as a freelance director, writer, videographer, D.O.P. and producer, in 2010 he founded SILENTFILM ARTIST COLLECTIVE as a platform for image films, documentary and music videos.

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Videographer and editor from Germany with seven years of experience in international TV news, documentaries, as well as digital marketing content production. I most recently worked for Deutsche Welle TV (Germany's international public broadcaster) in their Washington DC bureau doing filming, editing, audio, and post-production on ready-to-air TV reports for correspondents. I have international experience with technical organization and filming in Canada, Singapore, Philippines, Mexico as well as 25 states across the U.S. Previously I worked as a vision mixer and trainer at Deutsche Welle in Berlin, where I live-­edited TV news and talk shows in production control room. I also taught mobile journalism courses as a trainer for DW News reporters. I have experience as a freelance videographer on commercial projects for companies including Wacom, Mömax, Qiez TV, Media Brothers, Drink and Draw, and Mediakraft.

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Born in Görlitz, raised in the eastern part of Berlin. Starting with photography, my passion has always been capturing what I see. Framing a shot is still the best. I did a three-year training at the film archives and learned everything about "real" film. Afterwards I studied Audio-Visual Media in Berlin and did my Diploma in Camera in 2009. Since then my fascination for creating moving images has taken me all around the world. Together with two friends and over the course of almost five years I successfully ran my own film production company focusing on commercials, brand-videos and portraits. In 2016 I left Kings&Kongs Filmproduktion to go back to my roots enjoying life as a DoP freelancer again. I still work closely together with www.kingsandkongs.de I love to work in both fields of documentaries and advertisments. My heart belongs to the beauty of nature, and my heart belongs to people & their stories. With my own professional equipment I like to travel a lot even to the most remote places in the world. My clients include Samsung, Huawei, Telekom, Volkswagen, Ritter Sport, Booking.com, Opel, Juniqe, Montblanc and several international TV Stations.

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Linda Paganelli is a visual anthropologist and filmmaker. Her primary areas of interest are human rights in war zones, the relationship between power and minorities, refugees and migrants, history of art and contemporary art. Her work is deeply rooted in her anthropological background and seeks to analyse and deconstruct existing ideas around values and stereotypes. After completing with honours her Bachelor Degree in Social Studies at the Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna (Italy) she moved to London where she specialized in Visual Anthropology following a Master Degree at Goldsmiths. She worked, since 2009, as Freelance director mainly on short and long documentaries for TVs, production companies, magazines online, NGOs campaigns, art galleries, universities, and newspaper online. She has worked in conflict zones like Afghanistan and Palestine/Israel and on sensitive issues in Europe (specially United Kingdom and Italy) and Nicaragua where she gained access to dangerous places and ‘hard to reach’ social groups, found incredible stories, and delivered great videos in content and visual. Linda is member and founder of an independent collective of European video makers that aims at portraying segments of the contemporary world with a particular attention to the transformations within societies in the post-capitalistic era.

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Adriana Berroterán is a cinematographer originally hailing from Venezuela and currently based in Berlin. She began her career in the audiovisual world in 2007 and she’s an active member of The ICF+C, Apertura DOP, Free The Work and Sporas. Since 2021 Adriana is part of the jury board (music video and cinematography categories) of the D&AD Awards, the most prestigious benchmark for creative excellence in design and advertising. Her portfolio combines beautifully crafted shots full of poetry and mystery. She feels a deep attraction for the taboo, the forbidden, the mystical and the human body, which she considers tools of liberation and self-knowledge. Her creative interest lies in intersectionality and challenging the aesthetic parameters imposed by a society that lives in the framework of heteronormativity. Adriana’s experience comes from TV series, short films, commercials, music videos, live music festivals and documentaries in several countries such as Mexico, Germany, Austria, USA and Argentina. Some of her most notable work includes being Camera Operator for TV shows for Netflix and HBO Max, projects developed in Mexico. In 2008 she completed a film production course in Altos de Chavón School of Design in Dominican Republic. From 2009 to 2011, she studied Direction of Photography and colorimetry at the Training Center of the Argentine Film Industry Union CFP SICA. In March 2011 she was selected to participate in the Talent Campus Buenos Aires in collaboration with The Berlin Film Festival - Berlinale Talent Campus. Adriana won the Best Cinematography Award for the Short Film ‘Hysteria’ at Sappho Film Festival UK 2021 and the Best Music Video for ‘3 & Hoy’ at Buenos Aires International Fashion Film Fest 2021. Additionally, some of her projects are official selection of several Film Festivals in the US and across Europe.

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Saad Shahriar is practicing mainstream and alternative platform of journalism as a non-fiction writer (i.e. opinion/column, essay, BBC blog writer), visual journalist (i.e. photo editor, documentary photographer, photo reporter, and multimedia producer), documentary-ethnographic filmmaker (producer/director), Content Producer (social media) and broadcast content developer (produce content, develop communication to support TV production). He began his career by contributing to local daily newspapers of Bangladesh in 2003. Formerly he worked for some national dailies in Bangladesh; also international media like Sipa Press (France), ZeppelinNetwork (France), and CNN International (US). He worked for BBC Media Action, Bangladesh as a content researcher, assistant producer, and social media strategist from 2013-2017. He studied Journalism & Media Studies, and Broadcast & Cross-Media Journalism in Dhaka, Bangladesh; also studied and practiced Contemporary Documentation in Berlin, Germany. Currently, he is exploring Visual Anthropology, Media & Documentary practices at the University of Muenster, Germany. In November 2022, Saad Shahriar founded Unrest Radio — an autonomous space for socio-political documentation of unheard voices, which is a podcast project that focuses on socio-political oppression within German society.

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Hello! I'm a native Berliner with a deep passion for film and television. I pursued my studies in Berlin, specializing in directing and cinematography. My cultural background has blessed me with fluency in both German and Turkish at a native level, along with excellent English skills and a little of Spanish. I am a professional videographer based in Berlin, where I studied Film and Television. Since embarking on my professional journey in 2014, I have honed my skills in capturing compelling visual stories. My portfolio boasts a diverse range of projects, catering to both local and international clients. My passion for crafting engaging narratives through the lens has driven me to continuously explore new creative horizons in the world of videography. Since 2021, I have carved out a niche for myself as one of the most successful travel influencers in the German-speaking world. My unique perspective, fueled by my academic background and multilingual abilities, allows me to connect with a diverse audience, bringing them along on my captivating journeys. From bustling cityscapes to serene natural wonders, my lens captures the essence of each destination, sharing stories that resonate and inspire.

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I am a freelance mobile videographer (iPhone, DSLR) specialized in filming for digital marketing purposes, mobile reporting, reports and documentaries. After studying English Philology, New History and Politics at FU Berlin and University College Dublin I was trained to become a TV journalist and author. Doing this I worked with and for well-known German TV stations such as ARD, Pro Sieben or Kabel 1. I'm also a trained VJ with the ARD.ZDF Medienakademie and worked as an online news editor for DPA, Videovalis and Bitprojects too. In 2014 I founded my own company So Handy to provide one stop content for businesses, organizations and public institutions. Since then I have realized more than 100 mobile films for more than 30 customers. I'm interested in peoples' stories, social impact and historical events.

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Ben Jones is a documentary filmmaker from Belfast, Northern Ireland now based in Berlin, Germany. Ben has worked as a self producer/director, cameraman and editor in the industry for over ten years. Previous productions include documentary films and work for the BBC, Channel Four, UTV and RTE in the U.K and Ireland. Ben has also filmed in various locations across Europe, including the U.S and the Middle East. Recent films include a documentary for the BBC following a refugee rescue boat in the Mediteranean. While living in Berlin, Ben has worked for various agencies and companies as D.O.P and editor as well as a cameraman for the IDHA News agency. You can review a selection of Ben's recent work in his current shooting showreel here https://vimeo.com/273616392

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I am a passionate, dedicated and multi-award winning filmmaker with over 15 years experience, both in producing and shooting my own work, and as a gun for hire for broadcasters and independent production companies alike. My previous 10 years experience in programme distibution, working up to Head of Sales and Co-Productions, has given me a keen eye on standards and technical requirements throughout the production, post-production and distribution processes. I am a fluent and confident editor, with excellent understanding of audio production and mixing, rigorous adherence to workflow, as well as a good working knowledge of motion graphics. I am equally happy working alone and producing from the field anywhere in the world, or as a strong, competent and empathetic member of a larger team.

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I am an American writer/filmmaker currently based in Berlin. Graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the arts with a BFA in Film and TV Production and have worked in television programs such as THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART (Comedy Central), LOUIE (FX) and SOUTH OF HELL (WEtv). I have been involved in creating content in numerous mediums, including an independently produced TV pilot (WISECRACKERS), feature length film (HOWEDS), numerous short films, Youtube sketches, music videos and, most recently, ONGOING WITH MATILDE KEIZER, a comedic documentary travelogue web series currently in post-production and set to premiere on vimeo in Spring 2016. I enjoy creating content--both fiction and non-fiction--on any range of subjects, but particularly if it has a sense of humor.

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is a Cinematographer and Editor based in Berlin and Mumbai. ( Currently in India) Traveling for work and study in the past decade has provided Vishal with a multi-cultural background and a rich experience of living and working on projects in India, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Taiwan, Portugal and the UK. His quest for finding new ways of telling visual stories and confronting questions to create new meaning inspires his work as a filmmaker. Vishal has been working in the film industry as a Cinematographer for 6 years. He has shot one feature, several shorts, documentaries, and commercials as a cinematographer.  Vishal's bags are always packed and he is ready to travel anywhere in the world to create images that tell stories ! CV Available on Request

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Roser Corella (Barcelona, 1978) is an Independent Documentary Filmmaker. She began her career as video-journalist for the Catalan TV, but her interest on human stories behind global issues moved her to start self-producing and developing a personal vision within the documentary field. Her work have been shown worldwide, winning numerous awards such POYI – Picture of the Year International- in USA, and CANAL+ France Award at Women’s Film Festival of Créteil. She currently combines her personal work with collaborations as a video journalist for various international media. Her fascination for documentary genre has led her around the world in search of stories to tell. Not only to witness but to challenge and raise critical questions about contemporary societies.

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Tim Haber is a Berlin based filmmaker. He produced on the indie film, Gutterbug, directed by Andrew Gibson, which had its festival run in 2019. Gutterbug has won several awards, among them are the Grand Jury award at Dances With Films in Los Angeles and the Grand Jury and Audience award at the Woods Hole Film Festival. He has filmed on such shows as the Emmy award winning Undercover Boss and The Zimmern List, CNN's Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods and Andrew Zimmern's Driven by Food and Crash Test World, National Geographic's Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller and worked on Hollywood features and tv shows Uncharted, Castle Rock, Ted 2, Patriots Day, The Equalizer, Clear History for HBO, Father of the Year for Netflix and The Way Way Back.

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Creative and experienced motion-picture director and producer with an artistic approach. Cameraperson, video/film editor, and licensed drone operator. Communications and social media specialist with a long track record of corporate clients in tech/innovation. Highly effective project manager with firm budget ownership, event management, and leadership skills. Writer (https://medium.com/ doc-kiez), volunteer, runner, open water diver, certified barista, and lifelong learner. Co-founder of the film production companies SpeakEasy Project (www.speakeasyproject.com), and filmDOUGH (www.filmdough.berlin) as well as the HUNIWOOD Hungarian Film Festival Berlin (2016, 2017), and the Berlin Documentary Film Club.

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