Discover Top Documentary DPs in Brussels, Belgium

Yassine Atari (°1996, Belgium) ventured into the world of photography and storytelling at the young age of 19. He set out on a life-changing journey, determined to use his camera as a tool to shed light on the unseen, the unheard and the forgotten corners of the world. Yassine's journey kickstarted on the Syrian border with Lebanon, during a humanitarian volunteering trip in 2015. Moved by the untold stories and overlooked experiences, he pledged to do more - this trip turned his camera into a constant companion towards a lifelong commitment to reveal the beauty behind the madness. Over the past eight years, Yassine's work has taken him through more than 52 countries and an even wider range of human experiences. The path he carved out often led him to the epicenters of global conflicts, disaster zones, refugee camps, protests, and even the wild untamed territories where wildlife thrives. Yassine also evolved into an overall video reporter and on-screen reporter for the Belgian broadcaster, where he masterfully combined photography, video, documentary, and online content to bring the world closer to his audience. his work IS featured in various media outlets, such as VRT NWS, VICE, NOS, and many more. He has also worked extensively with several international NGOs, such as Team Humanity USA, Oxfam, Caritas, Human Relief Foundation, etc., amplifying their causes through his captivating visuals. Despite all his experience, he never stopped learning and improving. He completed an advanced Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) with Bluespear and obtained an online certificate from Harvard University on 'Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster.’ In recognition of his contributions to the field, Yassine was awarded the prestigious Belgian Press Prize in 2020, the 'Gouden Reuske' award in 2023 and earned a nomination for a Rose d'Or award in 2020. He invites you to join him on his journey and tell stories together.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
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• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
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• Field Producer
• Video Editor - News
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Portrait Photographer

Tess Vonck is a Belgian freelance multimedia journalist and sinologist with three years of experience. She is based in Brussels, but spends equal time in China and Greece. After years of living, working and traveling in China and Taiwan, her beat focusses on China's role in global shifting powers. She covered several Chinese issues for Belgian media (print, online and radio) and follows the impact of globalisation on societies and nature worldwide. Currently she covers the struggle of generation Y against the challenges of a systemic economic global crisis in an ever globalised world. In the run up to the European elections in 2014 until the Greek elections in 2015 she embarked on a European marathon through all member states of the European Union. Project Yout#opia is an investigative multimedia project telling the story of a collapsing and changing Europe through the eyes of its youth. The project was widely covered in Belgian and European media. website: www.tessvonck.com

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
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• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Laia Ros is a journalist and a photographer based in Brussels (Belgium), available to work around Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, France, and Spain. She has published her work in Spanish national media (La Vanguardia -through Junior Report-, Público, El Salto, Pikara Magazine, Playground Magazine, Jot Down Kids) and international media (BBC apprentice, DNES collaborator, fixer for Rudaw during the 2019 demonstrations in Catalonia). She was part of the team that developed Nushu, a media that brought news to children through AR and VR platforms. She has also conducted workshops on how to craft journalistic storytelling for Instagram stories in the Col·legi de Periodistes, and she has been a media officer, PR, and CM for the International Dance Film Festival of Barcelona, Choreoscope. She is also a Shutterstock collaborator and a creative Getty images contributor.

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• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
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• VR / AR

AISHA ADEPOJU ‘95 documentary creative Aisha graduated in 2018 with a master's degree in Documentary - Audiovisual Arts at RITCS School of Arts with her documentary 'El Camino Frente A Mi'. In her films she zooms in on social themes, represented through her characters, but an interpretation for multiple voices. She doesn't aim for a beginning or an end, but everything in between. In 2024 she obtained a certificate in graphic design at SYNTRA Brussels. She loves to translate stories and messages visually and lets her creativity prevail for developing a visual identity from A to Z, scenography, poster and text design (brochures, magazines, educational packages, pitch documents, etc.). Haar ontwerpen omarmen eenvoud en efficiëntie, met een speelse en frisse toets. Graphic portfolio on request.

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Production Assistant
• Post-Production Manager
• Event Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Digital Content Creator
• Graphic Designer
• Commercial DP

Sujay is a photographer, filmmaker and a photobook maker from Mumbai, India. Probably as a result of him having lived most of his life in urban spaces, Sujay finds himself constantly being distracted by forests, hills and grasslands. While pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, Sujay continued to steadily nurture this ‘distraction’ towards natural habitats. After graduation, he worked as an assistant cinematographer, videographer, photographer, video editor and colourist. Most of Sujay’s filmic work is an attempt at documenting his immediate surroundings, with a keen focus on the relationship between humans and natural elements in the environments that they share. Currently, Sujay resides in Brussels and holds a Masters in documentary film direction from the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters program, Docnomads.

• Colorist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Documentary DP
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - News
• Corporate Videographer
• Fashion Photographer

Ryan Le Garrec films and edits, directs or does, most of the time, all at once. He started in the Contemporary Dance world, from Brussels and then heading to Stockholm for two years where he met singer Damien Rice and embarked on a world tour as a film maker, then back to brussels and shifting to a tv gig that will become a career for a while as a freelance regularly broadcasted for his intimate and poetic portraits of people from renown artists to every day humans. Ryan also worked as a music video director and editor, and as a commercial director, the corporate world saw him come and go almost straight away, he still believes in branding and marketing if that means showing love and humans!

• Documentary DP
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Fixer
• Production Assistant

Hi, I'm a creative director, filmmaker and video-journalist and work as a freelancer. Since 10 years, I collaborate as a reporter and editor in an international video press agency located in Amsterdam. I also have a production company called videoprod.be based in Brussels in which I work as creative director and filmmaker. I cover each year the Venice and Cannes Film Festivals, I'm sent for breaking News items quite often. Apart from that, I do corporate videos for companies, weddings and music clip videos. I subscribed because I think Storyhunter is a real way to get some new amazing video projects! Looking forward to meet you!

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• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Drone Operator
• Corporate Videographer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director

Brandon Jourdan is an independent filmmaker, journalist, and writer. Jourdan has contributed to the NY Times, CNN, Arte, Reuters, Babelgum, Deep Dish TV, Democracy Now!, the Independent Media Center, Now with Bill Moyers, Foreign Exchange, and Free Speech Television. His films have played in various international film festivals and exhibitions including the 2006 Whitney Biennial: Day For Night, the Museum of Modern Art, the Denver International Film Festival, the Aljazeera International Film Festival, the Contemporary Art Meeting Point in Athens, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

David is an empath.  A sensitive, a passionate, a film maker and an artist.   As a child growing up in Kinshasa, David was already fascinated by the world of cartoons and animated movies.  He still is. His passion for film making, for production and photography inspired David to leave the world of finance and fully dedicate him to his creativity.  David is currently based in Brussel, has a Bachelor in Business Administration, a Master’s Degree in both Finance & SME as well as Diploma in Digital Film Making. After 2 years as an independent and diverse projects, David has developed his skills in production as well as in writing and directing.

• Creative Director
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• Production Assistant
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Gaffer
• Documentary DP
• Fixer
• Video Editor - Documentary

I was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1983. After graduating in political science, journalism and international conflict resolution, I started working as a freelance video journalist for Associated Press Television News, Al Jazeera English, RTL-TVI and Canal Z. In 2011, I directed my first mid-length documentary on the rise of nationalism in Greece in the wake of the economic crisis and the unprecedented flow of undocumented migrants. The documentary was aired on European news channels and screened at several festivals. My interests are primarily politics and economics, but I also love human-interest stories.

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Brussels, belgium based, I am an investigator of all things creative, technology orientated, especially through the lens. So far in my life, I have worked as a choreographer, photographer, multi-disciplined collaborator, DOP, gimbal operator, post-production editor drone operator and currently as a Steadicam operator. I am the co-founder of Motionhouse, my home base or ‘engine room’ for multi-faceted creations and storytelling. I also work as a freelance camera operator, documentary DP and video journalist.

• Commercial DP
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• Corporate Videographer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Production Company
• Drone Operator

I have been studying sociology for 5 years and screenwritting for one at university. I then moved to Barcelona and worked for a social documentary company called Otoxo Productions. we released a documentary called: El rytm y el temps. In 2014, I worked for Ventilador Music and realized video clips and promotionnal videos for their bands. In 2015, I moved to Montreal, Canada. Thanks to 99Media and GIV, I produced my first film "Another form of social organization"which is now in postproduction.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Reporter / Journalist
• Translator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Tomas Bachot (’89, Belgium) is a photographer and videographer. He graduated with the greatest honours as Master in Visuals Arts (photography) at School of Arts/KASK, Ghent. He works and lives in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and Antwerp (Belgium). His work has been published in British Journal of Photography, GUP, Ain't Bad, L'Oeil de la Photographie, MONU, It's Nice That, Lenscratch, De Standaard, De Morgen ... He has been commissioned by the Belgium Embassy in Romania, VICE, the city of Ghent, Banffy Castle ...

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• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director
• Fixer
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
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• Product Photographer
• Fashion Photographer
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We specialise in extraordinary logistics. Or more simply put, we move people and equipment in, out and through difficult places. Since 2003 we have been advising and helping individuals, companies, NGO's and even government agencies to get where they need to be. Whether the complication is physical (the North Pole, the summit of Aconcagua or the centre of the Sahara) or political (Libya, Ukraine or Afghanistan to name just a few) we have the experience and the knowhow to travel the road less travelled. Our role is to get you to where you want or need to be - and to get you back again!

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
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• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Sound Mixer
• Fixer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Translator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Born in Belgium, raised in a suburb of Brussels. He followed his love for flamenco and moved to Andalucia. He lived and played chess in Allepo, Syria. Then he went to a small village in Ethiopia were he made My Future. He stayed in Ethiopia to finish his second film, Little Heaven. Both films travelled the festival circuit and were screened by several broadcasters. Little Heaven together with an outreach campaign is traveling to 30 remote villages in Ethiopia. At the moment he is working on a new film in a refugee camp at the border of Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan.

• Documentary DP
• Production Company
• Video Editor - Documentary

Newsant brings together multimedia professionals who aim to enrich the coverage of all the latest news events, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We build with existing digital and audiovisual media outlets a more comprehensive approach to news coverage. Through fact-checking, data-journalism and investigative journalism multimedia entities which provide an immersive experience to readers and viewers. The work delivered by the agency proves that it is possible to constantly produce added value, even when budgets are tight and time is running short.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Fixer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

Ananthakrishnan worked as a cinematographer for Tehelka magazine in New Delhi. He recently finished the Doc Nomads Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Documentary Filmmaking delivered by a consortium of European universities, and he is now working as DOP and Ronin operator in Brussels. He is at the same time active in authoring and filming documentary projects in Portugal, Hungary, Italy and India.

• Commercial DP
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• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director
• Fixer

Nathalie Bertrams is a photographer and journalist working mainly across Africa and the Middle East. She is a 2017 Pulitzer Center on crisis Reporting grantee, and winner of the EU Lorenzo Natali Media Prize 2015 for journalism on development. Her work has been published in newspapers such as the Guardian, The Wall Street Journal,Süddeutsche Zeitung, Al Jazeera, Mail & Guardian, New Internationalist and others.

• Documentary DP
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Reporter / Journalist

I am a video-journalist based in Belgium with an undergraduate degree in Television. The job description as a Video Journalist for www.idahostatejournal.com got me really excited so I would like to apply for this position! I am able to film and edit video's independently and I have no problem with deadlines! I have a lot of experience with filming and editing and I am extremely driven to deliver great work!

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
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• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

I'm a reporter based in Brussels, covering all things EU or NATO-related, but also wider stories around Belgium. I have a ten-year long career in covering daily news, but I have also a significant experience in longer features. I have worked for the BBC World Service, Deutsch Welle World and the Associated Press Television News. I was also a TV correspondent for the now defunct A1 TV from Macedonia, shut down in 2011. I have a thorough knowledge of EU affairs, Belgium and the Balkans.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
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• Reporter / Journalist
• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial