Sophie Maintigneux

Sophie Maintigneux

Director of Photography

Born 1961 in France. After camera internship and assistance, camerawoman on over 70 documentaries and feature films since 1984. Collaboration with, among others: Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Klier, Jan Schütte, Rudolph Thome, Hans Erich Viet, Philip Gröning, Marcel Gisler, Helga Reidemeister, Georg Maas, Aysun Bademsoy, Doris Metz, Judith Kennel, Lilo Mangelsdorff, Mirjam Kubescha, Erica von Möller, Maria Teresa Camoglio, Jo Schmeisser, Annika Larsson, Michael Radford, Mareike Wegener, Ingo Haeb, Matthias Luthardt, Johanna Sunder-Plassmann, Tama Tobias-Macht, Imogen Kimmel, Greta-Marie Becker.

Since 1990 teaching at various film schools.

From 2006 to 2011 co-head of the camera department at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb).

From 2011 to 2021 professor at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM Cologne).

Since 2021 professor at the Film University Konrad Wolf, Potsdam.



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