Julia Daschner is a freelance DoP for feature and documentary films. After studying at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), she was a Berlinale Talent in 2010. Her first feature film Lose Your Head screened in the Berlinale Panorama. She was nominated for the German Camera Award for her second feature film SOMMERHÄUSER/the Garden. Julia Daschner is an active member in professional networks and on the board of the German Film Academy. She has also been teaching cinematography at several German film schools for many years. After some successful television films with Lars Gunnar Lotz, she worked on the documentary SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN by Steffi Niederzoll, which won nearly 30 international awards (including the Bavarian Film Prize 2023). Most recently she shot Franz Müller's new feature film in Cologne. She lives in Berlin and Munich.