Annemarie Lean-Vercoe
cinematographer
Annemarie studied cinematography at the National film and Television School. Whist at the National film School she was the Freddie Francis Scholar, and won 1st Prize in her first year for Cinematography in the Kodak Student Commercial Competition, and also won 3rd prize in her second year.

Since leaving the course in 2002 she has been shooting short films, promos and working on documentaries, which have taken her to Africa, New York and Europe. Annemarie has also worked as a camera operator for the director Michael Winterbottom on Code 046 and Seven Songs, as well as some television work.

Many films that Annemarie has been involved in have been shown at festivals all over the world, including the documentary After Years of Walking, a film that addresses Rwanda’s post genocide state of affairs, which was screened at the West Hollywood Amnesty film festival in May 2004 and at Sheffield and Amsterdam in 2003. Two fiction films that Annemarie shot (Job Street and Lost and Found) were included in the six short-listed for the Turner Classic Movie prize at the 2003 London Film festival. Lost and Found was also in the shorts section of the festival.