Ngo The Chau

Ngo The Chau (* 1977 in Hanoi , Vietnam ; also: The Chau Ngo ) is a cameraman working in Germany .

Life

Ngo The Chau came to Berlin from Vietnam as a child , where he graduated from the Friedrich-Ebert-Oberschule in 1996 . He then worked as a lighting technician on various film projects. From 1999 to 2004 he completed a camera degree at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). In 2003 he was the first to receive the Michael Ballhaus Award, which is awarded to camera students at the dffb for outstanding performance.

While still a student, Ngo The Chau began working as director of photography for cinema and television productions, as well as commercials and music videos. He was responsible for the image design for music videos by Herbert Grönemeyer , Seeed , Ferris MC , Fler and Aggro Berlin . In 2005 he received the German Camera Prize and the German Television Prize for the crime scene Scheherazade . Since 2005 he has also been a guest lecturer at the International Film School in Cologne , among others . In 2018 he directed the ZDF fairytale film Snow White and the Magic of the Dwarfs for the first time.

Filmography (selection)

• 2002: Shadow World (Hình Bóng)
• 2003: John Lee and Me
• 2003: Detroit
• 2004: Passengers - Every encounter is an opportunity
• 2004: Follow the spring
• 2005: Tatort (TV series; episode: Scheherazade )
• 2006: Sleeping Beauty Awakens (TV movie)
• 2007: According to plan
• 2007: crime scene (episode: bright future )
• 2007: Max Minsky and me
• 2007: Schattenkinder (TV movie)
• 2008: Night Shift (TV series; episode: I'm afraid )
• 2009: Kidnapped (two-part TV series)
• 2009: phantom pain
• 2009: 66/67 - fair play was yesterday
• 2009: Night shift (episode: We are the police )
• 2010: gravity
• 2010: 8 a.m. 28
• 2010: The Snobs (TV series)
• 2011: Almanya - Welcome to Germany
• 2011: Tom Sawyer
• 2011: Tatort (episode: Borowski and the cool dog )
• 2012: Wolff - Kampf im Revier (TV movie)
• 2012: Life is not for cowards
• 2012: Tatort (episode: Borowski and the silent guest )
• 2013: Tatort (episode: Welcome to Hamburg )
• 2013: Banklady
• 2013: It's All Right (TV Movie)
• 2014: Stereo
• 2014: There and away
• 2015: Too Soon to Die (TV Movie)
• 2015: Trust me (TV movie)
• 2015: One breath
• 2016: the middle of the world
• 2017: The Peppercorns and the Curse of the Black King
• 2017: Happy Burnout
• 2017: Berlin Falling
• 2017: Rübezahl's Treasure (TV movie)
• 2018: Arthur's Law (TV series)
• 2019: Snow White and the Magic of the Dwarfs (TV film; also director)
• 2019: Bad Banks (TV series)
• 2020: No orange tree grows in Berlin (TV movie)

Awards

• 2002: Golden tadpole, student award at the Camerimage camera film festival for shadow world
• 2003: Michael-Ballhaus-Förderpreis
• 2004: Nomination for the German Camera Prize for Detroit
• 2005: German TV Prize , Best Cinematography , for Tatort - Scheherazade and Episode of the Spring
• 2005: German Camera Prize, category television play , for Tatort - Scheherazade
• 2015: Nomination for the German Camera Prize for Stereo
• 2016: German Television Award , Best Cinematography , for Too Early To Die
• 2020: German TV Award, Best Camera Fiction for Bad Banks

Web links

• Ngo The Chaus website
• Ngo The Chau in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ngo The Chau at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ dffb: Michael Ballhaus Prize 2003 ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 7, 2010 
2. ↑ Photo of the day: The shooting for "Snow White". In: Blickpunkt: Film. August 31, 2018, accessed April 21, 2019 .