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DEUTSCH Werde ein echter Sherpa (!) und trage einen kleinen Teil des Gepäcks, das wir benötigen, um den Ärzten des Tilganga Eye Hospital in Nepal und des Himalayan Cataract Project deutschlandweit und weltweit eine Stimme zu geben! Wir wollen diese Geschichte über die Arbeit von Dr. Sanduk Ruit aus Nepal und Dr. Geoff Tabin aus den [...]
Intraocular Lenses
That’s how the intraocular lenses used by Dr. Ruit and Dr. Tabin look like. Our film Out of the Darkness has been selected to be shown at the 27th Wasaw International Film Festival in Octover this year. See the trailer here! http://www.outofthedarkness-film.com Posted via email from STEFANO LEVI PHOTOGRAPHY Share on Facebook
Fred Hollows Foundation in Paris
Jaf Shah, CEO at the Fred Hollows Foundation UK, will join us in Paris at the European premiere of Out of the Darkness, and will be present with me at the Q&A session. We are very excited to show the work of Dr. Ruit and Dr. Tabin through this documentary and hope many of you [...]
How to capture creativity?
Thanks to the kind permission of the Dortmund’s Ballet Company’s management, I spend some time behind the scenes with the dancers, during the preparation of Xin Peng Wang’s “Hamlet”. I wanted to witness the creative process of directing a new choreography with my own eyes and document it with still images. Being a complete newcomer [...]
Best of Category Award Winner
How cool! I’ve just learned Out of the Darkness won the Jury Prize for Best Mountain Film at the Mountain Film Festival, Mammoth Lake, CA, U.S.A. The prize will be handed over end of February 2011. Posted via email from STEFANO LEVI PHOTOGRAPHY Share on Facebook
Documentary Artwork
The official Artwork for for my debut Documentary “Out of the Darkness” is now finally ready! Posted via email from STEFANO LEVI PHOTOGRAPHY Share on Facebook
2011 Botswana / Zambia Workshop
There will will be a new Workshop for photographers lead by myself and Grant Reed in June 2011 in Botswana/Zambia It will be a comfortable Tented Safari especially designed for the need of photographers who would like to work with the best light conditions and add some incredible shots to their portfolio. for accompanying non-photographers [...]
They got rithm…
Children of N≠ama Village performing their dances under a huge baobab tree. Posted via email from STEFANO LEVI PHOTOGRAPHY Share on Facebook
Storytelling
The eldest of the village tells a hunting story when he was young and used to dress only with skins. Posted via email from STEFANO LEVI PHOTOGRAPHY Share on Facebook
Ecstatic healing dances
The bushmen in the village of N≠ama dancing aroud the fire while their chief digests the incredible amount of energy collected during this ritual. Bushmen doctors enter in a state of trans that enables them to liberate from their own body negative energy and to fill the hole with a flux of positive energy. Something [...]
Dinner with the bushmen
Have you ever had a dinner invitation by a small village in a remote area at the border of the Kalahari? Well I did, and it has been an incredible experience! I’m blessed I could share thes moments with these people. Would you take a stranger to dinner at home, without knowing him? What you [...]
Off to Namibia
I’m off to Namibia for about two weeks on a photography and research trip to work with the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert. I’m looking for a story for a new documentary Film. Since my first encounter in Tanzania in 2007 with the Hadzabe Bushmen I was fascinated by the close relationship these people have [...]
Out of the Darkness Doc in Auckland!
My first feature documentary Out of the Darkness has been accepted at the 2011 Documentary Edge Film Festival in New Zealand which will take place between February 17 and March 27, 2011. What a great honor! About the Festival: “Documentary Edge Festival (formerly the DOCNZ International Documentary Film Festival) is Australasia’s only international competitive documentary [...]
Assignments: An image film for medical doctors
This is a image film we shot for a network of medical doctors. Share on Facebook
Music for our Film
The motion picture soundtrack of “Out of the Darkness” is composed by Markus Aust at Chez Muziek using and adapting original Nepal instruments compositions by an internationally awarded and one of the most famous Nepali flute masters of our times: Prem Rana Autari. I met Prem last week in Belgium during his Europe 2010 Tournee [...]
The Film Website of “Out of the Darkness” is online.
Finally the website for my first feature documentary “Out of the Darkness” is out there. We are curently still working on the 3rd rough cut and hope to be soon finished. We plan to submit it to Film Festivals worldwide starting with Sundance Film Festival. If you wish to visit the website, click here. Share [...]
Out of the Darkness
“Out of the Darkness” is the current working title of my first feature documentary film that I hope will be able to be shown at film festivals internationally. We just finished the second rough cut and are currently losing focus, but that’s a normal stage of the process. For editing we use the card-method. The [...]
What is your question?
Doing research on the Internet I came across this stunning piece of work, which I believe is brilliant. Have a look at this video and feel free to comment on this. I think initiatives like this rise our awareness, and strangely enough at the end we all ask the same questions… Share on Facebook
Image Spot with RED camera
After 2 weeks of preparation and two days of shooting my Team and I have now finished shooting with RED 4K camera in a blue-screen studio in Cologne my first image advertisement spot. The client is a network of Medical Doctors. Thanks to all of my Team for their fantastic work! I could not wish [...]
World Press Photo Exhibition
In case you have the chance, a visit to the World Press Photo 2010 in Amsterdam is definitively worth. The exhibition is located in the Oude Kerk, not too far from the central station. Here a link to the site. The image above shows a story about Lance Armstrong taken by Elisabeth Kreutz and called: [...]
Into the Wild
I wake up. It’s dark. No watch on my wrest. I can barely hold my eyes open, apparently something woke me up. It’s one of those times where for few seconds you don’t remember where you actually are. Where am I? What time is it? I guess all this traveling during the last 6 months [...]
Smiletrain Promo 2010
Promotional trailer for the Italian Smile Train NGO, operating worldwide to help cleft lip and cleft palate syndrome. Share on Facebook
Okawango Delta Safari – Wildlife Photography
I’m heading to Botswana tomorrow for my first Botswana Photo Safari with a very small group of clients. I’m very excited about it as it will be my first time in those regions which are considered the last untouched wonder of nature on earth. This time I will set myself the goal of focusing on [...]
Filming in extreme conditions
Nepal March 2010. Finally my crew and I were in Nepal after almost 3 years of thinking and preparations. We wanted to follow, photograph and film an extraordinary humanitarian expedition. In fact, as extraordinary it was for us, for Dr. Sanduk Ruit and Dr. Geoff Tabin this was one of many they regularly do. Their [...]
Dance of joy
Nepal 2010, originally uploaded by stefanolevi. Luca and Rosalie at work in Pahkribas, while a elderly lady dances for happyness after she realizes her sight had been completely restored. Share on Facebook
Sangeeta
11 year old Sangeeta, partially blind due to congenital cataract, is comforted by her little sister after Dr. Ruit operated her in Siwa on March 31st 2010. Share on Facebook