Helki Frantzen

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Director of Photography, Helki Frantzen

Los Angeles, California US

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I'm drawn to genuine community and love to explore the ways people get together. The act of filming is both a pleasurable and meditative experience, a way to be in the present, to get to know people and discover beauty all around me.

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Helki Frantzen is a documentary cinematographer based in Los Angeles. Her work has screened at festivals worldwide including Tribeca, Sheffield, DC/Dox, Camden, DOC NYC, Big Sky, AFI Fest and Short of the Week, and has appeared on TV and online outlets such as PBS, BBC, the L.A Times, the Atlantic, Vice News and Rollingstone Magazine. Her cinematography for RICHLAND (Tribeca '23), a feature length documentary directed by Irene Lusztig, is described as captured with “a gorgeous and eerie precision" (‘Richland’ Review: A Sobering View of a Town Taken Advantage Of) Documentaries Helki has DP’d have received multiple awards, including a Los Angeles Area Emmy, numerous Los Angeles Press Club awards and a Golden Mike award. Helki is a member of the International Collective of Female Cinematographers and the Documentary Cinematographer's Alliance.

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