Andrea Chiozzotto

Andrea has been exposed to visual beauty ever since his first breath in Venice-Italy where he was born. As a teenager he started to consistently dedicate himself to still photography, music and technology, then adventure traveling very far on his motorbike enriching his visual library. In order to become a cinematographer, Andre worked his his way up the Camera Department from electrician to clapper loader, to focus puller and camera operator working beside or world acclaimed cinematographers such as 'Christophe Beaucarne'_ AFC, Robby Müller ASC, Douglas Slocombe ASC, Eduardo Serra ASC, Benoît Delhomme AFC, Alex Thomson ASC, Denis Lenoir AFC, Oliver Stapleton BSC/ASC and learning from Don McAlpine ASC, Vittorio Storaro AIC, Vilmos Zsigmond ASC and Dante Spinotti ASC. Andrea specialized as a Cinematographer in 1996 in London and won an award for best cinematography at NYCIFF Festival in New York for the movie The Tomb Robbery Papyrus: Notes of a Past (2009), and other award from countless music promos produced for prestigious labels like Sony BMG, EMI, Warner Music and Universal Music. Together with remarkable technical skills, Andrea has that natural artistic flair which allows him to shape the canvas in an extraordinary and profound way, sometimes searching his Italian library of visual beauty. This is conveyed on digital or film quickly and efficiently thanks to a higher level of communication with the director and his nurturing a team driven by passion. Andrea has been working in many parts of the world and able to coordinate any international crew (perfectly fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian) satisfying any director's need with original, innovative, suitable lighting and VFX work. Andrea is also a camera operator and works in any situation including aerial, long cranes, hand-held, motion control and much more.