Julian Schwanitz

Julian Schwanitz, born 1982 in Aachen, works mainly as a cinematographer for fiction and documentary, and earned a BAFTA New Talent Award for his cinematography on the short film DISCO in 2011. He began studying cinematography in Dortmund and later relocated to Scotland where he continued his studies in film and photography. Fascinated by the documentary genre he enrolled for a postgraduate degree in documentary directing at the Edinburgh College of Art. “Kirkcaldy Man” is his graduation film and won the Golden Dove for Best International Short Documentary at its world premier at the 54th DOK Leipzig in 2011. In 2012 the film earned him a further BAFTA New Talent Award for best documentary under 30 minutes.

No Point Climbing Down (2009)

Films