Aaron Kopp
Aaron Kopp is a US-based cinematographer and film director who grew up in Swaziland.
Life
Kopp shot and co-produced Saving Face (2012), the Oscar-winning documentary about acid attacks in Pakistan. He and his partner Amanda Kopp shot for The Hunting Ground (2015), about sexual assault on American college campuses.[1]
Aaron and Amanda Kopp's 2017 movie Liyana, eight years in the making,[2] is a mix of documentary and animated fable. A 'story within a story', about a young girl rescuing her twin brothers from kidnappers, emerges from a storytelling workshop in Likhaya Lemphilo Lensha (New Life Homes) orphanage in Kamfishane, Shiselweni Region. Liyana is executive-produced by Thandie Newton, who heard about the project through filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.[3]
Filmography
As director
- Likhaya, 2009
- Liyana, 2017
As cinematographer
- Her Life is My Teacher, 2008
- Begin, 2009
- Del:100, 2010
- Arise, 2012
- Living on the Edge of Disaster: Climate's Human Cost, 2014
- The Hunting Ground, 2015
- Dime Short, 2017
- Turns in the Road, 2018
As cinematographer and producer
- Saving Face, 2012
References
- ^ Aaron Kopp & Amanda Kopp, Rocky Mountain Women's Film Institute.
- ^ Jazz Tangcay, LA Film Festival: Amanda Kopp and Aaron Kopp Discuss the Beautiful Liyana, Awards Daily, June 25, 2017.
- ^ Marlow Stern, Thandie Newton on the 'Tragedy' of Trump and Her 'F*cking Awful' Time Exposing Hollywood Abuse, Daily Beast, 11 October 2018.
External links
- Aaron Kopp at IMDb
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