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FELIXWIEDEMANN
BORN: 25 DECEMBER 1982, KEMPTEN, GERMANY
How did you get into this industry; any family connections?
“I photographed and directed my first DV short film in 2005, while I was studying Computer Science in Germany.
I submitted the film as my application for
What was your favourite job
to date and any unusual anecdotes whilst working?
Shooting the book trailer for the novel The Outcast was my favourite job. It is a 1950s period piece, we shot in amazing locations and the crew was absolutely fantastic. We
Who were the most influential
people in your career to date,
i.e. cinematographer, director, etc.? Cinematographers - my tutors at the
NFTS - Brian Tufano BSC, Stuart Harris and Jonathan Harvey.
What were your most recent projects and what was your job on each?
• The Outcast, Commercial Book trailer. S35mm. Prod NFTS, Random House, The Bookseller, Play.com. DP and Director.
• Beyond The Wall, Short film (in post- production). S16mm. Prod NFTS.
DP and Director.
• Tide, Short film. S16mm. Prod NFTS. DP and Director.
• The Deal, Short film (in postproduction). S16mm. Dir Oonagh Kearney. Prod NFTS. DP. • The Writer, Short film. S16mm.
Dir Mahdi Fleifel. Prod NFT. DP.
What are your current and
future projects?
In April I shot a short film called We Saw Zebras (S16mm). Mid April I shot a test commercial for the Armani Get Together Competition (S16mm). I am also prepping my fiction graduation film and my animation graduation film for the NFTS, both will be shot on film early this summer.
What is your experience of working with Fujifilm stock?
I have shot four short films on Fujifilm stock.
I have used ETERNA 500T, ETERNA 250D, ETERNA 250T, ETERNA Vivid 160T and
Super F-64D. Beyond The Wall was shot on
the Eterna 500T. I shot the book trailer for
The Outcast partly on Fuji stock, using the
Super F-64D for exteriors and even for a
night interior in a church, and
ETERNA 500T for night interiors in
a manor house. I really like Fujifilm
stocks and it is always a pleasure ” to visit the Fujifilm office
in Soho.
the Cinematography Course at the National Film & Television School and I was accepted. I moved to England in January 2007 to attend the course, which consists of shooting films, commercials and master classes. Since then I have worked on seven short films as a cinematographer, two of which I have also directed. In autumn 2007 I won the “Book Video Awards” competition with my treatment for a promotional film- style trailer for the novel The Outcast (written by Sadie Jones, published by Chatto & Windus 2008). I directed and photographed the 90 sec trailer on 35mm.
had a really good time. Before I started the course at the NFTS, I helped out as a spark on a shoot in Germany for a few days. The location was a discontinued opencast mining area. We were shooting in the evening, and we were losing light rapidly as the sun was going down behind a hill. Suddenly the DP came up with an idea:
He sent out a spark (luckily not me) with a shovel to go on top of the hill to dig a hole in the hill, so that we would have sunlight for a little longer! It was a bizarre sight, the spark digging frantically, silhouetted against the sun going down behind him.
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