Camera Studio

The Camera Studio is an intensive workshop where attending cinematographers are invited to consider how their aesthetic and technical choices shape the stories they tell.

The Camera Studio welcomes renowned cinematographers as well as ARRI experts, with the aim of fostering lively exchanges with the Talents. Practical exercises centred around footage brought in by the Talents themselves will provide initial case studies in order to examine the use of lighting, aspects of post-production, colour grading and the latest camera technology and their roles in translating a creative vision to screen.

Talent comes with the responsibility to share, and at the Studios you are invited to give your best to receive a lot in response. In this way, the Studios form one part of the entire Summit experience. Where the six-day Summit offers a breadth of opportunity to learn new things beyond your individual expertise, hear new opinions, experience new techniques and ideas, the Studios are a one-day microscope on your specific field of work, deepening and strengthening your overall Berlinale Talents experience.

Modhura Palit at the Camera Studio Workshop.

Dirk Meier, colourist and postproduction consultant, lends his expertise to the workshop.

Learning from and exchanging with other cinematographers from around the world was definitely the highlight, and the Camera Studio day with ARRI, Dirk Meier, Caroline Champetier & Kirsten Johnson was AMAZING. An incredible day full of inspiring discussions and technical information.

Camera Studio participant, 2023

Lighting plays an important part in the Camera Studio Workshop.

The Camera Studio participants with Kirsten Johnson and Caroline Champetier
as well as Coordinator Johannes Louis and ARRI's Mandy Rahn. — The Camera Studio participants with Kirsten Johnson and Caroline Champetier as well as Coordinator Johannes Louis and ARRI's Mandy Rahn.

Thanks to Berlinale Talents' Co-Partner ARRI, participants work with state-of-the-art camera and lighting equipment.