Copyright: Simon Nancekievill
At the end of 2022 André Stahlmann graduated with his film "Istina - Truth", which was shot in Serbia and Germany and deals with the threat to press freedom. In the last years, he gained experience in a camera rental, worked as a freelancer and studied cinematography for a master's degree at the Hamburg Media School. Before that, he studied film in Berlin, where he worked on fictional and documentary films as a DoP. He also completed an apprenticeship as a media designer for image and sound at Südwestrundfunk (SWR) in Stuttgart. This was followed by two years as a camera and sound assistant, where he was involved in a wide variety of productions, both scenic and documentary.