Roberto Schaefer

Roberto Schaefer earned a BAFTA nomination for Best Cinematography for the 2004 film Finding Neverland, starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. Since then he has shot a dozen films, including The Paperboy, The Kite Runner, Machine Gun Preacher, Stay and Quantum of Solace. In 2000 the AFI honored his work on Christopher Guest's Best in Show as one of the Top 10 Movies of the Year.

Schaefer has lensed many hundreds of music videos, commercials, documentaries and more. He was nominated for a CableAce award for Best Cinematography for the 1994 Showtime movie of the week "Roadracers."

Schaefer has been making moving images since childhood, when he began using his father's 8mm camera. His early creations were music videos and dramatic and experimental shorts. He then attended art school and received a B.F.A. in multimedia and conceptual art, with a minor in photography.

After a four-year hiatus traveling the world and discovering life, Schaefer started as a producer of TV commercials in New York City. At the same time he took side jobs shooting news documentaries for European TV outlets and short films for friends and filmmakers in the city.

In 1982 Schaefer moved to Rome to shoot a feature film for a friend. Ten years later, after three features and dozens of TV commercials, music videos and documentaries, he moved to Los Angeles to enter the Hollywood film world.

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