Miriam Kolesnyk is Director of Photography for fiction, commercials, documentaries and music videos. She lived for 7 years in France and Spain, where she worked as a camera assistant and lightening technician. In 2007 she gained the B.A. in Art du Spectacle Cinématographique at the University Paris VIII. Since having finished the Postgraduate Film Studies in Cinematography at the Hamburg Media School in 2010, she is based in Berlin and works in Germany and abroad. In 2013 she participated at the Berlinale Talents. Her award winning films were screened at festivals across the world and were nominated several times for the best cinematography. Agung (Holiday), her feature film debut, had a successful theatrical release in 2021.
Languages
German (native) | French (fluent) | Spanish (fluent) | English (fluent) | Arabic (basic)
Special Skills
Analog Cinematography 35mm | 16mm | Green Screen
Selected Credits
Agung (Holiday) | Feature film | 108min | D: Pawel Ferdek | P: Pokromski Studio, Eitelsonnenschein | Poland, Germany, Indonesia | 2021
Die Ermittlung | Feature film | 210min | Operator (Dolly) | DoP: Guido Frenzel | D: RP Kahl | P: Film Mischwaren | Germany | 2024
Ollewitz | Web series | 6 x 9min | D: Mareike Engelhardt | P: Cine Impuls Leipzig, MDR | Germany | 2021
Kulturlöwe | Webseries - puppet film | D: Anna Mönnich | P: Studio Gläx | Germany | 2021-2022
Nebenzimmer | Short film | 30 min | D: Christos Netsos | P: Filmbucht | Germany | 2021
Zie got hir own style – Charlotte&Magon | Music video | 16mm | D: Magon | P: Baby Showtime | France | 2018
Objective Lune | Short film | 28 min | D: Jimmy Grassiant | P: Vagabundo Films, France 3 | France | 2017
