Uta Briesewitz (born 1967) is a German cinematographer and television director.
Biography Briesewitz was born in Leverkusen, Germany.
She cultivated a preference for French Nouvelle Vague and Italian cinema at an early age, watching them on German television. In an interview, she recounted that Francois Truffaut's Day for Night, The Story of Adele H and The Man Who Loved Women, were some of the films that made strong impressions on her as a child. Later, Briesewitz considered becoming a painter, but decided it was too isolated as a career.
She had an internship with a German television company, before she applied and completed a cinematography program at AFI Conservatory.
In 2007 she won a Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards in the category Kodak Vision award.
Filmography Cinematographer Film Year Title Director1998 Getting Personal Ron Burrus Next Stop Wonderland Brad Anderson 1999 Love Stinks Jeff Franklin2001 Seven and a Match Derek Simonds Session 9 Brad Anderson2002 XX/XY Austin Chick The Scoundrel's Wife Glen Pitre 2006 The TV SetJake Kasdan 2007 Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 2010 Vanishing on 7th Street Brad Anderson 2011 Arthur Jason Winer 2015 Freaks of Nature Robbie Pickering
Documentary film Year Title Director 1998 Baby, It's You Anne Makepeace
Television Year Title Director Notes 1999 Undressed Jamie BabbitJames BrettJonathan BussGeorge VerschoorChris SlaterDale Roy Robinson 30 episodes 2000 American Masters Anne Makepeace Episode "Edward Curtis: Coming to Light" 2002-2004 The Wire 29 episodes 2004-2005 LAX Anthony and Joe RussoScott BrazilFélix Enríquez AlcaláCraig Zisk 12 episodes2006 What About Brian Anthony and Joe RussoDan Lerner Episode "Pilot" Thief Dean WhiteJohn David Coles 5 episodes 2007 John from Cincinnati Mark Tinker Episode "His Visit, Day One" 2009 United States of Tara Craig Gillespie Episode "Pilot" 2009-2011 Hung 19 episodes 2012 Ben and Kate Jake Kasdan Episode "Pilot" 2013 True Blood Romeo Tirone Episode "Life Matters"2015 Fresh Off the Boat Lynn Shelton Episode "Pilot" Weird Loners Jake Kasdan Episode "Weird Pilot" Complications Matt Nix Episode "Pilot"
TV movies Year Title Director 1999 Return of the EagleWilliam A. Anderson 2000 Bear Wars 2003 Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story Peter Levin 2006 Sixty Minute Man Jon Avnet 2007 Life Support Nelson George 2009 Washingtonienne Mark Mylod2011 Untitled Allan Loeb Project James Steven Sadwith Spring/Fall Jake Kasdan 2013 The List Ruben Fleischer
Director Film American Sweatshop (2025) (Also executive producer)
Television Year Title Episode(s)2009-2011Hung "Sing It Again, Ray" or "Home Plate" "Take the Cake" or "Are You Packing?" "Money on the Floor"2012 Weeds "God Willing and the Creek Don't Rise" Suburgatory "The Wishbone"2013-2017Orange Is the New Black "Tit Punch" "Don't Make Me Come Back There" "Piece of Shit" "Full Bush, Half Snickers" 2014 House of Lies "Pushback"2014-2015Awkward "Girl Rules" "Over the Hump" "Say No to the Dress" "Reality Does Not Bite"2014-2016Jane the Virgin "Chapter Two" "Chapter Seventeen" "Chapter Thirty" "Chapter Thirty-Three" "Chapter Thirty-Six"2015Unreal "Mother" "Wife" Agent X "The Sacrifice"2015-2016The 100 "Bodyguard of Lies" "Stealing Fire"2015-2018Jessica Jones "AKA I've Got the Blues" "AKA Playland"2016 Mad Dogs "Hat" Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce "Rule No. 36: If You Can't Stand the Heat, You're Cooked" Fear the Walking Dead "Pablo & Jessica"2016-2018This Is Us "The Trip" "That'll Be the Day"2017 Lethal Weapon "Brotherly Love" Iron Fist "Under Leaf Pluck Lotus" Black Sails "XXXVI." The Defenders "Take Shelter"2017-2018The Deuce "What Kind of Bad?" "What Big Ideas"2018Altered Carbon "The Wrong Man" "Clash by Night"Here and Now "It's Coming" "If a Deer Shits in the Woods" Westworld "Kiksuya"2019Stranger Things "Chapter Five: The Flayed" "Chapter Six: E Pluribus Unum"2021In Treatment "Eladio - Week 3" "Colin - Week 3" "Laila - Week 3" "Brooke - Week 3"The Wheel of Time "Leavetaking" "Shadow's Waiting" CSI: Vegas "Legacy" (Also executive producer)2023 Black Mirror "Mazey Day"Fellow Travelers "Beyond Measure" "Make It Easy"2024The Old Man "XI" "XIII"2025Severance "Attila" "The After Hours"All's Fair "This Is Me Trying" "Divorce Is Like a Death"2026The Pitt "9:00 A.M." "1:00 P.M." "5:00 P.M." "8:00 P.M."
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