Annika Summerson

Annika Summerson

Nacimiento : , Stockholm, Sweden

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Bio by www.annikasummerson.com/about-me Born and bred in Stockholm, Sweden, Annika picked up a stills camera at the age of 12 and her passion for the image has been with her ever since. After gaining her MA in Cinematography at UK's prestigious National Film & Television School NFTS, Annika stayed on and is now based in North London but works worldwide in drama, commercials and music promos. She has recently proudly received the SUE GIBSON CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD for her work on Mogul Mowgli. Her graduation film Until The River Runs Red directed by Paul Wright won a BAFTA for Best Short Film. Her work has received major awards including UKMVAs, an Amanda (Norwegian BAFTA), Honorary Mention for Outstanding Cinematography for her work on Camping With Ada, the FIPRESCI award (International critics prize) at Berlinale 2020 for Mogul Mowgli, which also recently picked up 7 BIFA 2021 nominations, including one for Best Cinematography and a BAFTA nomination for Best British Film 2021.. Her background includes invaluable experience in the lighting department as well as working for cinematography legend Christopher Doyle. Her feature film credits include Bfi funded Postcards From London, BBC rap-battle feature VS. and Pulse Film’s Mogul Mowgli starring Riz Ahmed. Her latest feature (BFI/ Film4/ Film Wales) Censor was shot on 35mm and premiered in Sundance January 2021 to great acclaim. Censor had it’s European premier at Berlinale June 2021, followed by a UK cinema release in August. Annika has recently conceptualised and completed ep 1-3 on Sky TV series Then You Run shooting in Berlin; 10 episodes of drama comedy Breeders starring Martin Freeman; 3 episodes of BBC drama ‘Clique S2’ as well as a 10 episode TV-comedy drama for the main Norwegian TV-channel NRK One Night/En Natt, which was experimentally filmed once in English, and once in Norwegian/Swedish. She currently prepping a new series for Disney shooting in the UK and LA, working title Wedding Season. When she’s not shooting she’s hiding in her wooden lake house in Sweden.

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Annika Summerson

Películas

Censor
Director of Photography
La censora de cine Enid se enorgullece de su meticuloso trabajo, protegiendo a las audiencias desprevenidas de los efectos nocivos de ver las decapitaciones llenas de sangre y las cicatrices en los ojos que examina. Su sentido del deber de proteger se ve amplificado por la culpa por su incapacidad para recordar los detalles de la desaparición de su hermana hace mucho tiempo, recientemente declarada muerta en ausencia. Cuando se le asigna a Enid la revisión de una película inquietante del archivo que se hace eco de sus nebulosos recuerdos de la infancia, comienza a desentrañar cómo este misterioso trabajo podría estar vinculado a su pasado.
Mogul Mowgli
Director of Photography
Zed es un joven rapero inglés de origen pakistaní a punto de dar el salto definitivo en su carrera: su estilo es audaz y sus letras punzantes, vindicando sus raíces sin renunciar a su proyección contemporánea. Cuando está a punto de iniciar su primera gira mundial, donde mostrará su dominio del escenario con tanta rabia como flow, decide visitar a su familia tras dos años sin verles. Allí, la fatiga y una extraña dolencia harán que su sueño peligre.
Postcards from London
Director of Photography
Having hopped on a train to London in search of fame, fortune, and more cultural stimulation than Essex could provide, beautiful but naïve Jim finds himself jobless, penniless and renting a cardboard box from a homeless man. Down on his luck, but still smiling, Jim catches the eyes of The Raconteurs, a unique troupe of high-class male escorts who specialise in cultural, post-coital conversation.
VS.
Director of Photography
VS. is an urban rites of passage drama set in the hostile and exciting UK rap battle scene.
Await Further Instructions
Director of Photography
Es 25 de diciembre y la familia Milgram se despierta con su casa rodeada de una viscosa sustancia negra. Aunque están convencidos de que ha sucedido alguna catástrofe, no están seguros de cuál puede ser la causa: ¿un ataque terrorista? ¿una guerra nuclear? ¿tal vez algún tipo de incidente industrial? La televisión sólo muestra un rótulo que aconseja a los ciudadanos no abandonar su casa, algo que desconcierta aún más a la familia. A medida que pasan las horas la información se actualiza con mensajes cada vez más aterradores, lo que aumenta la paranoia y acaba por desencadenar una auténtica carnicería.
Alt brenner
Director of Photography
12-year-old Anna has volunteered to clear garbage along a beach in Northern Norway. There, she falls in love with the group leader Aaron, who awakens something intense in Anna that she has never felt before.
Nothing Ever Really Ends
Camera Operator
Marius and Ebba are a couple in their late 20s who are in constant conflict, even though they love each other deeply. Every New Year's Eve they try to break up. A story about love and dysfunction told over the course of three years.
Camping with Ada
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Romanian Ada faces the summer working as a prostitute with her aunt at a Norwegian camping site. When she encounters Henriette, a Norwegian girl, it sets a spark in her dream of a better life. Ada tries to push away reality, but as night falls the two worlds starts colliding.
Nasty
Director of Photography
It's 1982. Twelve-year old Doug is drawn into the lurid world of VHS horror as he explores the mysterious disappearance of his father.
Cryptic
Camera Operator
Eight guys from a crime organization in London are sent to guard a coffin.
Not as Old as the Trees
Director of Photography
80-year-old Saul has lived in London all his life. For the past 20 years he has spent his spare time climbing trees in Hampstead Heath.
Out of Time
Director of Photography
Two time-traveling tourists from the future visit present day London.