Studies in camera for film and television at the HFF (Film University) Potsdam Babelsberg and at the ESCAC in Barcelona. Freelance camera woman, focussing mainly on documentaries since 2002. She has also been director as well as camera woman on her own films („Manana al Mar“, „Ein Papagei im Eiscafé“). She’s won many awards, for instance the FIPRESCI prize in Cannes, the Max Ophuls Documentary Prize, the Prix Europa, Best Camera of the New Berlin Film Awards, and was nominated for the German camera prize. Since 2009 she taughts at several film institutions. www.inesthomsen.de