Josefin Kuschela is a director and camera woman for nature- and outdoor films. After she began making short films when she was around 15 years old, she later studied psychology in Potsdam, Germany, specializing in visual perception (Diploma). She lived for a while in Vancouver, Canada and worked in research labs for cognition (brain/ perception/attention). She never stopped filming though, so it happened that in the end the camera became her full-time comrade. 2016 – 2020 she studied directing for culture-, documentary-, and science films at film academy Baden-Württemberg in Germany (Diplo¬ma), doing projects in Alaska, Northern Scandinavia and Greenland. She loves snow, ice, and dogs, and therefore is now specializing in filming in arctic climates. Rewards include the Newcomer Filmprize at Naturvision, an Honorable Mention for „Best Nature Documentary“ at Innsbruck Nature Film Fest, and „Best Winter Film“ at International Festival of Winter Cinema.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Drone pilot and drone camera operator (EU licence A2)
Recreational boat license for inland and sea
Canadian Pleasure Craft Operator Card
PADI Open Water Diver
Good skills in Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, Davinci Resolve
INTERNATIONAL FILM EXPERIENCE
Europe: Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal
North- and South America: USA, Canada, Peru
Asia: Myanmar
FILMOGRAPHY (Selection, ordered by date of shooting)
2023
Femundløpet – Jens Kvernmo (30min, Documentary | Camera)
2022
Grönland22 – AMAQA (60min, Documentaryn | Director, Camera, Editor)
Gamsbart (5min, Mini-Documentary, ServusTV | Camera)
Märkte (30min, Documentary, ServusTV | 2nd Camera)
Die Strategie der Schmetterlinge (3min, Trailer, Fritz Theater| Camera, Editor)
2021
Fight about the Land (60min, Documentary, SWR | Camera)
Couchgeflüster Season 2 (6x10min, Fritz Theater Chemnitz | Camera, Editor)
Naturvision Anniversary Films & Awards (10x5min, Naturvision | Camera, Aerials)
2020
The Circle of Moose (45min, Documentary, Filmacademy Baden-Württemberg | Director, Camera, Editor)
Die Niere (2min, Trailer, Fritz Theater | Director, Camera, Editor)
Memo Gang (3min, App-Trailer, DOKblick | Camera)
Magic Socks (2min, Imagefilm, One World Endeavors | Director, Camera, Editor)
Traum eines lächerlichen Menschen (45min, Theaterprojections, Theater Chemnitz | Camera)
Clownocchio (2min, Trailer, Fritz Theater | Director, Camera, Editor)
Die Glasmenagerie (20min, Theaterprojections, Theater Chemnitz | Camera)
Kultursommer Chemnitz (2min, Trailer, Chemnitz City | Camera, Editor)
Couchgeflüster (10x10min, Fritz Theater Chemnitz | Camera, Editor)
Netzwerk (5min, Imagefilm, my:uniquate | Camera)
Passion Life (3min, Imagefilm, my:uniquate | Camera)
2019
Follow Your Dawgs (30min, Documentary, Filmacademy Baden-Württemberg | Director, Camera, Editor)
Seven Summits – Denali (45min, Documentary, Filmacademy Baden-Württemberg | Aerial Camera, Sound)
Danube – MS Thurgau Silence (15min/4min/30sek, Doc/Imagefilm, Thurgau Travel | Director, Camera, Editor)
Rhine – MS Thurgau Prestige (15min/4min/30sek, Doc/Imagefilm, Thurgau Travel | Director, Camera)
Berlin Social Academy (2min, Imagefilm, Scout24 | Director, Camera, Editor)
Scout24 Social Day (2min, Imagefilm, Scout24 | Director, Camera, Editor)
Life’s work (8min, Shortfilm, Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt | Camera)
Rhone – MS Thurgau Rhone (15min/4min/30sek, Doc/Imagefilm, Thurgau Travel | Director, Camera, Editor)
Omexom High Voltage (3min, Imagefilm, Omexom | Aerial Camera)
2018
Croatia – MS Thurgau Adriatica (15min/4min/30sek, Doc/Imagefilm, Thurgau Travel | Director, Camera, Editor)
Donau – MS Thurgau Ultra (15min/4min/30sek, Doc/Imagefilm, Thurgau Travel | Director, Camera, Editor)
Scout24 Social Day 2018 (3min, Imagefilm, Scout24 | Director, Camera, Editor)
Moldau und Elbe – MS Florentina (10min/4min/30sek, Doku/Werbung, Thurgau Travel |Director, Camera)
Fitter You (>100 Clips, Fitness-App, Effit | Camera-Operator)
Vogtland – wo zu Hause ist, entscheidest du (2min, Imageclip, my:uniquate | Camera)
Granaten (3min, Trailer, Fritz Theater Chemnitz | Director, Camera, Editor)
Viel Lärm um nichts (3min, Trailer, Fritz Theater Chemnitz | Director, Camera, Editor)
2017
The Irrawaddy River in Myanmar – RV Thurgau Exotic 3 (10min/4min/30sek, Doc/Commercial, Thurgau Travel | Director, Camera, Editor)
Fashion Dogs (30min, Documentary, Filmacademy Baden-Württemberg | Camera)
The Douro River in Portugal – MS Douro Spirit (10min/4min/30sek, Doc/Commercial, Thurgau Travel | Director, Camera, Editor)
Wolf in Sight (12min, Documentary, Filmacademy Baden-Württemberg | Camera)
Ein seltsames Paar (3min, Trailer, Fritz Theater Chemnitz | Director, Camera, Editor)
Scout24 Social Day (3min, Event, Scout24 | Director, Camera, Editor)
The Rhine River – MS Edelweiss (10min/4min/30sek, Doc/Commercial, Thurgau Travel | Director, Camera, Editor)
Species at Risk in the Whaleach Watershed (4min, University of British Columbia | Director, Camera, Editor)
Efeu und die Dicke (2min, Trailer, Fritz Theater Chemnitz | Director, Camera, Editor)
Germans and their Fears (30min, Magazin, Filmacademy Baden-Württemberg | Director, Camera)
Winterreise (3min, Theatertrailer, Mittelsächsische Theater | Camera, Editor)
2016
The Great Hole (44min, TV-Documentary, WDR | Aerial Camera Operator)
Geheime Freunde (2min, Trailer, Fritz Theater Chemnitz | Camera, Editor)
Faust (5min, Trailer, Opera Stuttgart | Camera)
SchlagMal (2min, Short Film, Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt | Camera)
Genkingen – ein schwäbisches Volksmärchen (52min, Documentary, Filmacademy Baden-Württemberg | Aerial Camera Operator)
Mercedes Sprinter 2016 (1min, Commercial, Mercedes-Benz | Aerial Camera Operator)
Metabolic Balance (1min, Commercial, Metabolic Balance | 1st Camera Assistant)
Celanamour (10min, Short Film, Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt | Camera)
Glorious (4min, Trailer, Fritz Theater Chemnitz | Director, Editor)
Glorious-Live (20min, Theater-Videoinstallation, Fritz-Theater Chemnitz | Director)
Silent Comrade (85min, Documentary, Filmuniversity Babelsberg | Aerial Camera Operator)
Die Mechanik oder Wie man auf sich Acht gibt (10min, Kurzfilm, Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt | 1. Kameraassistenz)
Townhall Immobilienscout24 (3min, Imagefilm, Immobilienscout24 | Director, Camera, Editor)
Bernd (5min, Short Film, Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt | Director, Editor)
Werther (3min, Trailer, Mittelsächsische Theater | Camera, Editor)
2015
Ein Mann, ein Fluss, ein Abenteuer (60min, Dokumentation, SWR | Camera)
MS Antonio Bellucci (5min, Werbefilm, Thurgau Travel | Director, Camera, Editor)
WUFF (3min, Short Film, Chemnitzer FIlmwerkstatt | Director, Editor)
Agile Nearshoring (4min, Werbefilm, BrightONE | Director, Camera, Editor)
DevFest 2015 (3min, Event, Immobilienscout24 | Director, Camera, Editor)
Konfetti (4min, Trailer, Fritz Theater Chemnitz | Director, Editor)
2014
EYE I EI (11min, Short Film, Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt | Director, Camera, Editor)
Harley Davidson – Inner Child (3min, Commercial, Filmacademy Baden-Württemberg | Aerial Camera Operator)
Scoutie Fit (5min, Event, Immobilienscout24 | Director, Camera, Editor)
Inner Game (10min, Short Film, HFF Potsdam | 1st Camera Assistant)
You Is Now (4min, Event, Immobilienscout24 | Director, Camera, Editor)
Agile Polen (5min, Werbefilm, Immobilienscout24 | Director, Camera, Editor)
Blue Curacao (10min, Short Film, HFF Potsdam | 1st Camera Assistant)
Script(11min, Short Film, Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt | 1st Camera Assistant)
Amal (30min, TV-Documentary, Filmacademy Baden-Württemberg / WDR | Camera Assistant, 3rd Camera)
Berlin Social Academy (4min, Event, Immobilienscout24 | Director, Camera, Editor)
2013
Bake Frog (4min, Short Film, Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt | Director, Camera, Editor)
Das Kaninchenproblem (20min, Kurzfilm, Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt | 1st Camera Assistant)
The Last Show (10min, Short Film, Filmacademy Baden-Württemberg |1st Camera Assistant)
CogWis 2013 (4min, Event, Universität Potsdam | Director, Camera, Editor)
GDG DevFest (3min, Event, Immobilienscout24 | Director, Camera, Editor)
FFC Migration Camp (3min, Event, Immobilienscout24 | Director, Camera, Editor)
2012
Fly Frog (3min, Short Film, Eigenproduktion | Director, Camera, Editor)
Vancouver Eh! (3min, Musikfilm, Eigenproduktion | Director, Camera, Editor)
The BARlab at UBC (4min, Imagefilm, University of British Columbia | Director, Camera, Editor)
These Walls (15min, Kurzfilm, Running Wolf Productions | Sound Assistant)
2011
AnDreh (11min, Short Film, Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt | Director, Camera, Editor)
Die letzte Zutat (4min, Short Film, Eigenproduktion | Director, Editor)
Magic (3min, Musikvideo, Martin Johanus & The SpeedDates | Director, Camera, Editor)
Come or Go (3min, Musikvideo, Martin Johanus & The SpeedDates | Director, Camera)
2010
Omnicard Berlin (3min, Event, Krowne Communications | Camera)
This Side of Nowhere (20min, Short Film, HFF Potsdam | Sound Assistant)
Bosch O2 Arena (10min, Werbefilm, Krowne Communications | Camera)
2009
Mein Prinz, mein König (90min, Spielfilm, HFF Potsdam | Sound Assistant)
Executive Summit Allianzarena (4min, Event, Krowne Communications | Camera)
Cartes Paris (10 x 4min, Events, Krowne Communications | Camera)
2008
Selbstauslöser (12min, Short Film, Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt | Director)