Anna-Katharina Kolkmann | Director of Photography

Anna-Katharina, of German-Portuguese descent, studied at the University of Fine Arts in Lisbon and at the Angewandte in Vienna, where she earned her Bachelor's degree in Multimedia. Since she was a child, her passion for making her own films layed the foundation for her future career in the film industry. After working as a motion graphic designer and spending years as a camera operator on several cruise ships, she moved to film sets as a camera assistant where she rediscovered her passion for storytelling. She started her training as a steadicam operator and completed her Master's in Cinematography at the Hamburg Media School. Her second-semester short film made it to the list of Oscar semifinalists.