Jaap Ruurd Feitsma
Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Jaap (1984) is an award winning visual storyteller based in the Netherlands. He uses film, Virtual Reality and photography as his go-to tools. He has been working internationally as a freelance documentary photographer and camera operator since 2007 and a cinematographer since 2010. Throughout his career, he has been directing more and more as well.
With experience in shooting long term research based documentary photography projects, documentaries (film), music videos, commercials, web based interactive content and narrative fiction for clients that include the BBC, Nike, BMW and numerous NGO's, his work has taken him to over sixty countries.
In his work, Jaap is constantly searching for projects that move him. Stories that have a powerful visual identity in combination with enthralling human elements and a hyperdiegetic way of storytelling, often set in the more challenging environments our planet has to offer.
IMDb:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7987530/
DDG:
https://www.directorsguild.nl/member/jaap-ruurd-feitsma/
2016 - German Design Award, 2015 - Best of the World - NatGeo
- Arts
- Audio capture
- Audio editing
- Conflict
- Crisis
- Entertainment
- Environment
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Video editing