Who is Philine?

Philine Von Duszeln is a German young woman, documentarist and director of photography. We met earlier this year in Nairobi, Kenya at the EsoDoc International Workshop where I was developing Punishment Island and she was working on Aysén Profundo. In an exciting multicultural context with five documentarists from Europe, five from Africa and five from Asia, we lived together for over a week supporting each other while our projects got discussed, criticized, torn apart, rewritten, re-edited until the final pitch. Luckily our projects survived. I thought that Philine's work was great and shot really well. And she must have thought the same about Punishment Island as when I asked her to come and be the D.o.P she accepted enthusiastically. 

Philine studied Audiovisual Communication, Lighting and Stage Design in Spain, Switzerland, Germany and Argentina. Since graduating in 2008 she has been working in the photography- and production departments of different international documentary film productions. Carnaval en los Cerros (2009) was her first feature length documentary as a camera woman. Currently she has been working on Aysén Profundo www.aysenprofundo.cl (DoP, Production), an interactive web documentary about trades and traditions in Chilean Patagonia. Trailer can be viewed on https://vimeo.com/53146865

I am really, really happy to share Punishment Island with Philine and to find her again in Africa where I left her.

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