Known For
Camera
Born
Mar 11, 1966
Place of Birth
Bern, Switzerland
Credits
42 titles
Benedict Neuenfels
Biography
Born 1966 in Bern/Switzerland as the son of actress Elisabeth Trissenaar and director Hans . First encounter with film-industry 1982 as production assistant for the feature Penthesiliea. He worked several years as camera assistant and operator for R.W. Fassbinder's former DP Xaver Schwarzenberger and Wim Wenders close collaborator Robby Mueller. In early years he founded his own low-budget orientated production company Giselafilms Berlin. Since his study at the german film and television school (dffb) in Berlin, he is responsible for the cinematography of more than 60 features and documentaries and additional for the lighting design of various stage plays in opera and theater. He is giving master- camera -classes in major film schools in Germany for more than 20 years. Benedict Neuenfels is member of the german, austrian and european film-academy. His work has been awarded numerous times. He received several times both the prestigious Grimme Award and the German Television award, the Bavarian and the German Film Award each, as well as seven times the German Camera Award for outstanding cinematography. The counterfeiters, which he photographed in 2007, won an Academy Award for best foreign feature film the following year. In 2011 he was honored by the German Academy of Arts for outstanding achievement in cinematography. In 2018 he received various awards for the feature STYX. In 2019 he received the Lifetime Honory Award for Cinematography - German Camera Award . So he will join the chain of outstanding former recipients like Michael Ballhaus, Robby Mueller, Renato Berta, Slawomir Idziak, Xaver Schwarzenberger, Judith Kaufmann, Elfie Mikesch, Jürgen Jürges...
Known For
Filmography
Icefall
Director of Photography
Stella. A Life.
Director of Photography
In a Land That No Longer Exists
Director of Photography
Hinterland
Director of Photography
I'm Your Man
Director of Photography
Narcissus and Goldmund
Director of Photography
8 Days
Camera Technician
Patient Zero
Director of Photography
Styx
Director of Photography
Cold Hell
Director of Photography
Fatal News
Director of Photography
Girl in the Ice
Director of Photography
Radical Evil
Director of Photography
The Weekend
Director of Photography
Riskante Patienten
Camera Operator
Cause I Have the Looks
Director of Photography
Homevideo
Director of Photography
Mahler on the Couch
Director of Photography
A Woman in Berlin
Director of Photography
The Man from the Embassy
Director of Photography
Love Life
Director of Photography
The Counterfeiters
Director of Photography
From Dogma to Dogville: Don't Try This at Home
Himself
The Red Cockatoo
Director of Photography
21 Liebesbriefe
Director of Photography
They've Got Knut
Director of Photography
A Map of the Heart
Director of Photography
Ich bin keiner von uns
Director of Photography
Lost Killers
Camera Operator
Lady Rettich, Czerni and I
Director of Photography
Mein großer Freund
Director of Photography
The Scorpion
Director of Photography
Landgang für Ringo
Director of Photography
Bunte Hunde
Director of Photography
Frauen sind was Wunderbares
Director of Photography
Ins Leere
Director of Photography
Romy Award
Self
Bavarian Film Awards
Self
Scene of the Crime
Director of Photography
Grimme Award
Self
German Film Award
Self
Kristallnacht
Director of Photography