Aaron Kopp
Aaron Kopp is a US-based cinematographer and film director who grew up in Eswatini.
Life
Kopp shot and co-produced Saving Face, the Oscar-winning documentary about acid attacks in Pakistan. He and his partner Amanda Kopp shot for The Hunting Ground, about sexual assault on American college campuses.Aaron and Amanda Kopp's 2017 movie Liyana, eight years in the making, is a mix of documentary and animated fable. A 'story within a story', about a young girl rescuing her twin brothers from kidnappers, emerges from a storytelling workshop in Likhaya Lemphilo Lensha orphanage in Kamfishane, Shiselweni Region. Liyana is executive-produced by Thandiwe Newton, who heard about the project through filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.
Filmography
As director
Likhaya, 2009Liyana, 2017As cinematographer
Her Life is My Teacher, 2008Begin, 2009Del:100, 2010Arise, 2012Living on the Edge of Disaster: Climate's Human Cost, 2014The Hunting Ground, 2015Dime Short, 2017Turns in the Road, 2018As cinematographer and producer
Saving Face, 2012As producer
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