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Nina Kellgren a post-graduate from the Slade and a member of the British Society of Cinematographers is renowned for both her artistic virtuosity and her emotionally interpretive and detailed observation. Amongst other accolades she won two BAFTA Wales Awards for Best Cinematography and the Panavision Craft Award. The range of Kellgren’s interests have enabled her to move freely between the contrasting worlds of feature films, art installations, commercials, documentaries and stills. From Drowned by Bullets (Algeria/Paris Amnesty International Award) to the Oscar-nominated Solomon and Gaenor, starring Ioan Gruffudd, and Al Pacino’s Looking For Richard to the recent Deep Water narrated by Tilda Swinton and winner of Best Documentary 2006 at the Rome Film Festival and Grierson Award for Best Cinema Documentary in 2007. Nina’s long-term collaboration with Isaac Julien began in 1989 with the drama documentary Looking for Langston and going on to make Young Soul Rebels. Her recent work with Julien has been on the trilogy of film installations, True North, Fantôme Afrique, WESTERN UNION: Small Boats and most recently the biopic Derek.