CURRICULUM VITAE – DoP / direttore della fotografia/ Kameramann

about 25 documentaries, feature length, cinema and tv, e.g.:

  • „Scarabaeus“ / docu drama (1976)/ dir.: Pierre Voyame
  • „Der Gelbe Stern“ (Oscar nominated/1981)|dir.: Dieter Hildebrand
  • „1000 Kraniche musst du falten“ | dir.: Thomas Bauermeister
  • „Majdanek“ | dir.: Krzystof Czajka
  • „Ludiano-Texas“ | dir.: Mike Wildbolz
  • „Arno Stern, die Welt der malenden Kinder“   dir.: Andrea Rodoni

various  tv-series, e.g.:

  • „Neues aus Uhlenbusch“
  • „Karfunkel“
  • „Happy Birthday“
  • „Girlfriends“
  • „Lindström“

around 65 feature films for cinema  or television tv :

  • „Peter Gombas Lehr und Wanderjahre“ | dir.: Nenad Djapic
  • „Am nächsten Morgen kehrte …“ | dir.: Monika Funke-Stern
  • „Kein Ort für Sirenen“ | dir.: Angi Welz-Rommel
  • „La tregua/ the truce“ | dir: Francesco Rosi, camera operator
  • „Verdammt, er liebt mich“ | dir.: Sven Severin
  • „Error 2000“ / „Die Millenium Katastrophe“ | dir.: Anders Engström
  • „Baltic Storm“ | dir: Reuben Leder
  • „Bye Bye Berlusconi“  dir: Jan Hendrik Stahlberg
  • „Diamond Diver“ | dir: John Delbridge
  • „Woodwind“ dir.: Fin Manjoo

Lectureship/ Docent Cinematography:

  •  Kunstakademie Düsseldorf,
  •  Filmakademie DFFB, Berlin
  • Fachhochschule Düsseldorf
  • Zelig, Bolzano/IT

Photography / Exhibitions :

As a cinematographer, I have collaborated on numerous  productions in the international film and television industry. Among them, the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Yellow Star”; “Tausend Kraniche musst du falten”, Best Documentary Film at the Hessian Film and “Bye Bye Berlusconi!”, which won Best Production at the Bavarian Film Awards, Awards, and the Femina-Film-Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, respectively. I have also worked on the television series “Inga Lindström,” “Utta Danella,” and “Freundschaft mit Herz,” a show that has been on the air for over 20 years, and which has won multiple TeleStar Awards, an RTL Golden Lion Award, and a Golden Camera Award.

Directing and producing :

  •  „Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten“/1974;   short movie
  •  „Le mamme della Valascia“/ RSI, 2012;  documentary
  • „La lunga marcia della banda“/2014;  documentary
  • „Yschtoo zur Basler Fasnacht“/2019; documentary
  • „Frutta quattro stagioni“ / 2020 ; documentary
  •   more under  FILM

Nicolas Joray

1952 born Basle/CH,

50 years of work in the film industry

1978 – 2008  Berlin based

lives now in Ticino, Switzerland
cinematographer and photographer

Languages : Italian, German, French, English;  Swiss and EU citizenship

extended CV:
www.crew-united.com?bio=11361

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