March • 2025
truly talented, passionate, and skilled filmmaker who produces strong visuals and polished editing. Glad to have collaborated on this project. -Lauren
Thomas C.
Bangkok, Thailand
5 reviews$650 - $750 / Day
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Thomas Cristofoletti is an award-winning documentary cinematographer and photojournalist based in Southeast Asia since 2012. Originally from the Italian Alps, he works between Bangkok and Phnom Penh, telling human-centered stories at the intersection of climate change, development, and human rights. He is the co-founder of RUOM, a multimedia collective specializing in documentary film, photography, and investigative visual journalism. Thomas is especially passionate about the Mekong region, where his long-term work explores the environmental and social impacts of large-scale development. His latest documentary, Strangled, follows three Cambodian families and challenges the prevailing narrative of microfinance as a solution to poverty. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, BBC, Bloomberg, and others. His photos and films have supported campaigns by organizations including USAID, WWF, UNEP, UNICEF, and The Obama Foundation.
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- Video Journalist
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- Documentary DP
- 2 reviews
- Editor
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Clients
Top Reviews
May • 2020
Thomas delivered beautiful footage. He was very communicative, thorough, and professional. Recommend his work.
March • 2022
Thomas was great to work with, really communicative and the footage is excellent!
Top Projects
5.0 Produced for Bloomberg Originals Shorts
Bloomberg - Face masks made of lotus fibre In Cambodia
Mai Somnang is proud to be a lotus farmer making sustainable face masks from the flower’s stems in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the social enterprise Samatoa produced natural textiles with kapok, banana and lotus. Now it's facing a high demand for face masks made out of lotus fiber. The masks are exported to the U.S., Australia and France.
- Documentary DP
- Video Journalist
5.0 Produced for Bloomberg Digital
Bloomberg - The Dark Side of Microfinance
Microfinance, once hailed as a miracle cure for poverty, has become a lending system run amok –– and institutions that could help fix it are feeding the frenzy.
- Documentary DP
- Video Journalist
5.0 Produced for CNBC Digital Video
CNBC Make It's Relocated series - Bangkok
Jesse Schoberg, 41, relocated to Bangkok, Thailand at the beginning of 2022. He has been living and working abroad since 2008. He currently makes about $230,000 a year as the co-founder and CEO of a blogging software company.
- Documentary DP
- Video Journalist
Bloomberg - Cambodia to Museums: We Want Our Statues Back
"Dynamite" Douglas Latchford was known for buying and selling the beautiful, intricate statues that were built into Cambodia's sacred temples. Now the country is trying to get them back.
- Documentary DP
- Video Journalist
SCMP - LAOS DAM COLLAPSE: SURVIVORS RECOUNT THE HORROR
At 8pm on Monday, July 23 2018, a susidiary dam on the Xe Pian Xe Namnoy hydropower complex in southern Laos burst. At least 39 people are dead and 97 people are still missing. Weeks after the survivors are recounting the horror of that day.
- Documentary DP
- Video Journalist
BBC News - Fears Asia's Mekong River is in crisis
The Mekong River ecosystem is on the verge of collapse due to the accumulative effects of climate change. Hydropower dams, drought and human-made activities such as deforestation and sand mining have also caused water levels to drop to their lowest in more than 60 years.
- Documentary DP
- Video Journalist
Equipment
Camera
- DJI Mavic 2 Pro
- DJI Mini 4 Pro
- Sony a7S III
- Sony FX6
Audio
- Directional Microphone
- Lavalier Microphone
Miscellaneous
- External Recorder
- Stabilizer
Lighting
- LED Lights
Editing
- Apple Final Cut Pro
- DaVinci Resolve
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Production Support
- Editorial Photographer
- Documentary DP
- Drone Operator
- Video Journalist
- Field Producer
- Director
- Portrait Photographer