Julia Daschner works since 2009 as a freelance Director of Photography in the field of fiction and documentary. Besides, since 2013, she started teaching cinematography in Berlin and Munich.

Within her studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Julia spent half a year at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television in Cuba, taking documentary classes. She then graduated with the feature documentary AUF DER WALZ. Soon after, she was invited to the Berlinale Talent Campus.

Her first fiction feature film, LOSE YOUR HEAD, premiered at Berlinale, was screened at international festivals and sold to various countries. For SOMMERHÄUSER, a period feature honored with several prizes, she was nominated for the prestigious Deutscher Kamerapreis. Her newest work, MATTI UND SAMI, a childrens feature,  is currently in cinema.

• membership: BVK, AG Dok, Cinematographinnen - women cinematographers network
• shooting experience: Austria, North Korea, South Korea, Finland, France, La Réunion, Spain, Cuba, Italy, Georgia
  
• languages: english, french, spanish
• all current digital and analogue camerasystems, gimbal
• PADI open water diving license