Jana Pape

janapape@gmail.com

+49 177 488 95 60

Website

Jana Pape is a director of photography who tends to fall in love with a good screenplay. A dramaturgical collaboration with the director gives her just as much pleasure as mastering technical and logistical challenges. Her heart beats for fiction and selected documentaries. Her films have been recognized at festivals worldwide; such as the Venice Biennale, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, BUSAN, Cameraimage, DOK Leipzig, International Short Film Festival Dresden and others.
Since graduating from Babelsberg Film University in 2019 with a BA/MA degree in Cinematography, she has also worked on fictional TV formats and as a camera operator on international productions.

Languages

German (native) | English (fluent)

Special Skills

1000 Nights | 2023

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Als Gottes Blut auf die Schulter der Kinder tropfte | 2022

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Abgenabelt | 2020

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Selected Credits

WAPO Berlin I TV series I D: Markus Adrian I P: Saxonia Media I Germany | 2023

Schloss Einstein I TV series I D: Alkmini Boura I P: Saxonia Media I Germany | 2023

Soil of the Namib I Crossmedial Documentary I D: Christian Zipfel I P: Time Prints I Namibia | 2023

Thousands of nights I short I D: Valerie Anex & Annie Gisler I P: LOUISE PRODUCTIONS I Germany/Switzerland | 2023

1000 Nights | 2023

Als Gottes Blut auf die Schulter der Kinder tropfte | 2022

Abgenabelt | 2020

Member

Aleksandra Medianikova

Aleksandra Medianikova BVK

a.medianikova@gmail.com

+49 157 52 43 53 55

Website

Aleksandra studied "Cinematography "at the Film University Konrad Wolf (Bachelor and Master studies). Her graduation film "Rå" won German Short Film Award LOLA, Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award and was nominated for the Michael Ballhaus Award at FIRST STEPS. With the long documentary film "BEYOUND THE WHITE" Aleksandra was nominated for the German Cinematography Award. Aleksandra works as well for television ( BBC "FROZEN PLANET II /UK, ZDF "SOKO Köln"/Germany) as for cinema worldwide ( "MILCHZÄHNE" Wyedemann Bros /Sweden -Switzerland - Germany Co-Production, "MEIN VOGEL" Kurhaus Production / Germany ).

Languages

Russisan | German | English

Special Skills

analog Film | Color Grading | expedition | nature environments

DONT | 2022

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MILK TEETH | 2024

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Beyond the white | 2021

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Selected Credits

Beyond the white | 2021

MILK TEETH | 2024

DONT | 2022

Rising

Carina Neubohn

carina.neubohn@googlemail.com

+49 152 28 65 52 88

Website

Carina Neubohn was born in Germany, Paderborn in 1986. After her academic training to become a technical design assistant, she completed her in-company training as a media designer in image and sound at the CHBP Gesellschaft für Bild und Ton mbH in Cologne. During her training, she already specialised in camerawork and shot several short films on her own at the same time. In 2016, she successfully completed her camera studies at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and is now working as a freelance cinematographer. Since the spring of 2017, she has been working as a scientific and artistic employee in the field of image design and camera at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.

Languages

German | English

Dil Leyla | 2016

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Mund zu Mund | 2014

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Bintou | 2013

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Selected Credits

Member

Anne Bolick

dop.bolick@gmail.com

+49 177 683 08 84

Website REEL AGENCY

Anne studied cinematography at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. She had a scholarship at La Fémis in Paris. During her studies she was nominated for her work at Camerimage. In 2019 Anne wins the award for best cinematography at Achtung Berlin New Film Award for the feature SCHWIMMEN which previously won the Hofer Goldprize. The feature film KOPFPLATZEN/ HEADBURST (Dir. Savas Ceviz) celebrated its theatrical release in 2020. Anne takes part at Berlinale Talents Programm 2019 and is full member of the German Film Academy since Mid 2019. In 2022 she wins Best Cinematography for her work in SWEET DISASTER (Dir. Laura Lehmus), at Romford Film Festival [uk], Golden Door Int'l Film Festival [us] and West Sound Film Festival [us].
She lives in Berlin and has the german and iranien citizenship.

Languages

German (native) | English (fluently) | French (very good) | Persian (beginner)

Special Skills

Film analog | Gimbal

TATORT Das Herz der Schlange | 2021

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EVERYONE IS F*CKING CRAZY | 2022

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KOPFPLATZEN | 2018

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Selected Credits

TATORT Das Herz der Schlange | 2021

KOPFPLATZEN | 2018

Member

Anna Motzel

Anna Motzel BVK

anna.motzel@gmx.de

+49 176 66 71 55 06

WEBSEITE CREW UNITED BVK

Anna Motzel has been working as a DoP for feature films, documentaries, video art, theater and music videos since 2014. Her passion are creative projects that go beyond the norm. She completed her camera studies at the Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin in 2016 and worked at a camera rental company at the same time as camera assistant since 2009. As a DoP she has international shooting experience in Romania & Poland. As 1st & 2nd AC and Exposure Operator in Cambodia, Vietnam, Türkiye, Italy, Malta, Morocco.

Languages

German (native) | English (fluent) | French (basic)

Haus der Stille | 2023

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bye,bye,bye | 2022

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Ecdysis | 2019

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Selected Credits

Haus der Stille I Feature I D: Simone Geissler I P: Babu Film UG & Bildschön Filmproduktion, Linda Matern I Germany I 2021-2023

The Mole (WT) I short documentary I D: Hannah Plaß I P: Hannah Plaß & Lena Mary Plaß I Germany | 2023 | in postproduction

Besides, it ́s been always the others who died & Bye, bye, bye I middle length art film Part 1 & 2I I D: Roman Hagenbrock & Steffen Klewar I P: copy & waste I Germany I 2022-2023

Paartherapie - now or Never I DoP shared (50/50) with Jakob Seemann I TV Series I D: Peter Jeschke I P: Film Five GmbH I Germany I 2022

Ecdysis | documentary | D & P: Anna Motzel | Germany, Romania | 2019

w starym zoo | art film short | D & P: Mandy Krebs | Germany | 2015

bye,bye,bye | 2022

Haus der Stille | 2023

Rising

Christine Niemann

mail@christineniemann.com

+49 162 984 63 13

Website VIMEO CREW United

Christine was born 1984 in Jena. After school she made her first film experiences at a camera rental in Berlin and spent some years on several film sets as 2nd and 1st Assistant Camera. 2010 – 2017 she studied at the renown Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Actually based in Hamburg she is looking for interesting projects of any genre: fiction, commercial, music video. “Telling stories with my pictures and putting them into the right light to hit the emotions of the audience – this is a goal I always reach for and what drives me to think about new ways of visual storytelling for every single project.”

Languages

German | English | French (Basic)

Special Skills

16mm | Color grading

Filling the shoes | 2016

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Geschwisterdiebe | 2013

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14,74 oder das Streben nach Mittelmäßigkeit | 2017

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Selected Credits

14,74 oder das Streben nach Mittelmäßigkeit | 2017

Geschwisterdiebe | 2013

Filling the shoes | 2016

Member

Gabriela Betschart

g.betschart@gmx.ch

+41 78 606 33 54

Website ssfv

„...the ratio of an enormous life, of current heart rattle and at the same time translation in a document.“ (Klaus Wildenhahn)
The documentary film requires a lot of technical and human skills – this combination fascinates me with regard to the camera work. I acquired my knowledge from the film schools in Lucerne, Zurich, Potsdam and Munich. I have mainly worked since 2012 on documentary films as a camerawoman. I am a member of the german film academy, the professional association of swiss filmmakers and the swiss cinematographer’s society.

Languages

Swiss German | German | English

Manasapna | 2013

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Neuland | 2013

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A bit of Meat | 2007

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Selected Credits

Rising

Julia Geiß

post@juliageiss.de

+49 176 83 43 45 50

Website

Julia Geiß studied Visual Communication at the University of Fine Arts in Kassel in the fields of cinematography, photography and animation film, graduating with honors. She lives and works in Berlin as a freelance cinematographer, photographer and filmmaker. Her diploma film Sleeping Dads was co-produced by the German television channel NDR and was subsequently broadcasted on the Swiss Television Channel SRF1. In her work, Julia Geiß mainly focusses on social and political issues at the intersection between documentary and fictional narraitve.

Languages

German | English (fluent)

Thoughts | 2016

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Sookee | 2017

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San Remo | 2017

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Selected Credits

Rising

Marie Zahir

mariezahir@gmx.at

+49 176 81 03 83 26

Website

Marie Zahir was born in Vienna and studied from 2003 to 2010 at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Gießen. From 2010 to 2012, she worked for Cinegrell, a Swiss camera rental company and worked as a camera assistant. From 2013 to 2017 she studied picture design at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. During her studies, Marie Zahir shot 19 short films in a wide variety of genres as a graphic designer. The films shot by Marie Zahir were i.a. shown at Visions du Réel Nyon and Camerimage. In 2018 she won the National Competition for best up-and-coming DoP in the field of feature film at the IFFF with her diploma film "How I lost myself" (D: Sarah Weber).

Languages

German | English | French | Spanish

Special Skills

16mm | 35mm | Skiing | Ice Scating

Wie ich mich verlor | 2017

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I | 2019

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Program | 2019

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Selected Credits

Muster im Gemenge | documentary | D: Christiane Buchner | Germany | 2019

Apex | experimental | D: Stefan Ramírez-Perez | Germany | 2019

Member

Julia Schlingmann

julia@juliaschlingmann.de

+49 173 704 16 71

Website REEL CRew united

Julia Schlingmann works as a freelanced director of photography since 2013 after graduating her camera-studies at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Julia realized numerous, successful short films, documentaries and commercials for different production companies. Her movies acclaimed their premieres on well-known international film festivals around the globe and were retailed by TV-stations. Important awards: THE BLUE WAY: winner best camera Cannes corporate award 2020 / WAR OF LIES: winner international emmy award 2016

Languages

German | English (fluent) | French (basic)

Special Skills

The blue way | 2020

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teach first | 2018

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The blue way | 2020

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Selected Credits

The blue way | 2020