Director of Photography Services

Here is the layout. We supply directors of photography for features, series, commercials and documentaries shooting in Belgium. Our team places cinematographers who develop the look of a project with the director — lighting, lens choice, camera movement and composition — and lead the camera and lighting departments through prep and the shoot. They are proficient across the major digital cinema systems, know the Belgian rental market, and can plan a visual way that combines studio stages with the country's top range of real locations. Belgian DPs work fluently across Dutch, French and English, an everyday need on bilingual sets, and for shoots reaching Belgium through the Tax Shelter they are skilled at delivering ambitious cinematography within the cost discipline the funding demands.

Here is how the work shapes up. Belgium gives a cinematographer a genuinely distinctive palette: the soft, diffuse grey northern light, the naturalistic visual tradition associated with the Dardenne brothers' Wallonian cinema, and the ready-made looks of medieval Bruges and Ghent, the port and historic centre of Antwerp, and the Art Nouveau build style of Victor Horta in Brussels. The country's cinematography community is trained at INSAS and RITCS in Brussels and through the apprenticeship route of working shoots. The Tax Shelter has drawn a steady flow of global features, series and post work into Belgium. DPs here shoot both the restrained naturalism of homegrown cinema competing for the Magritte and Ensor awards and the larger overseas shoots the Tax Shelter brings. We match each DP to the visual register and scale of the project.