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Aaron Kopp is a US-based cinematographer and film director who grew up in Eswatini.

Aaron Kopp
CitizenshipUnited States[citation needed]
OccupationFilm director
Known forSaving Face, The Hunting Ground,

Life

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Kopp shot and co-produced Saving Face (2012), the Oscar-winning documentary about acid attacks in Pakistan. He and his partner Amanda Kopp shot for The Hunting Ground (2015), about sexual assault on American college campuses.[1]

Aaron and Amanda Kopp's 2017 movie Liyana, eight years in the making,[2] is a mix of documentary and animated fable. A 'story within a story', about a young girl rescuing her twin brothers from kidnappers, emerges from a storytelling workshop in Likhaya Lemphilo Lensha (New Life Homes) orphanage in Kamfishane, Shiselweni Region. Liyana is executive-produced by Thandiwe Newton, who heard about the project through filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.[3]

Filmography

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As director

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As cinematographer

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  • Her Life is My Teacher, 2008
  • Begin, 2009
  • Del:100, 2010
  • Arise, 2012
  • Living on the Edge of Disaster: Climate's Human Cost, 2014
  • The Hunting Ground, 2015
  • Dime Short, 2017
  • Turns in the Road, 2018

As cinematographer and producer

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