Aaron Kopp
Aaron Kopp is an award-winning filmmaker and national EMMY® Award-nominated cinematographer who grew up in the Kingdom of Eswatini. Aaron shot and co-produced the Academy Award-winning documentary about acid attacks in Pakistan, Saving Face. He was also cinematographer for the Academy Award-nominated Sundance film The Hunting Ground.
He has worked across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, North America and the South Pacific on films for Netflix Originals, National Geographic, Discovery, UK Channel 4, CBS, CNN and PBS. Aaron was awarded grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the Doha Film Institute for his feature directorial debut Liyana, which has won 35 awards at international festivals, including the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at the LA Film Festival and the Knight Documentary Achievement Award.
Amanda Kopp
Amanda Kopp is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer and artist. She was producer and cinematographer for the short film Likhaya, which won the Golden Palm, People’s Choice and Best Documentary Awards at international festivals. She also filmed for the Sundance premiered film The Hunting Ground. Amanda’s photographic work has been published in the UK, US, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Pakistan and Italy.
For her feature directorial debut Liyana, she was awarded funding from Shine Global and Fork Films and was the recipient of the 2018 Emerging Female Filmmaker Award from the Oxford Film Festival. Liyana has festival and award highlights including the Grand Prize Award at both the Heartland Film Festival and the New York International Children’s Film Festival, as well as having been screened at the BFI London Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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