MELLI KIRCHBERGER

Assistant Camera

A little more information…


I'm working as a first and second AC on fictional projects. At some projects I also work as a wrangler. 

For me working as an AC means to be always on the DOPs side, not only in technical matters also in personal matters, like a good friend. In general  a good and friendly atmosphere on set and with the team members means a lot to me.


Feel free to have a look at my Crew-United-Profile to see a selection of projects I worked on.

I have to admit, although I always have been a creative girl, my enthusiasm for film started pretty late. In 2007 I began to study multimedia and communications at Ansbach University of Applied Science.


I soon realized that film is such a powerful art genre and I also noticed that it’s nearly impossible to do a great film on your own, so you have to work together in a powerful team. Both of that convinced me and I started to work on lots of student film projects. I started as a runner or catering and ended as a DOP and teacher.

In 2012 I finished my studies with my bachelor-thesis about „Film and Emotion“, but I still enjoy working on student film projects.


During my studies I started working as a freelancer in various departments: production-assistant, assistant camera, camera operator, production-coordinator, post production… and even today I still like to do diverse jobs and projects. 


My first paid jobs in film-business have been music-videos. I'm grateful that I started that way, because I love music and did my obligatory internship at MTV Berlin and working on music-videos wasn't always an easy going job...so I started the hard way.  

From the end of 2014 to spring 2017 I worked at an agency as video allrounder, trainee teacher and producer until I wanted to focus again on working with the camera… and that’s what I’m doing now.


If you want to watch a few videos I did as a freelancer, student or in my job at the agency, just have a look at my YouTube-Channel.