Aaron Kopp


Aaron Kopp is a US-based cinematographer and film director who grew up in Swaziland.

Life

Kopp shot and co-produced Saving Face, the Oscar-winning documentary about acid attacks in Pakistan. He and his partner Amanda Kopp shot for The Hunting Ground, about sexual assault on American college campuses.
Aaron and Amanda Kopp's 2017 movie Liyana, eight years in the making, is a mix of documentary and animated fable. A 'story within a story', about a young girl rescuing her twin brothers from kidnappers, emerges from a storytelling workshop in Likhaya Lemphilo Lensha orphanage in Kamfishane, Shiselweni Region. Liyana is executive-produced by Thandie Newton, who heard about the project through filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.

Filmography

As director