Annemarie Lean-Vercoe an experienced DOP having worked in the British film and Television Industry for nearly 15 years. She has shot award winning feature films, documentaries and TV for all the major broadcasters in the UK, BBC, ITV, SKY, CHANEL 4 and internationally for NETFLIX. Most recently she has shot BAFTA WINNING Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley (BBC1), The Athena (Sky 1), Free Rein (Netflix).



Annemarie studied cinematography at the National Film and Television School in the UK where she was the recipient of the Freddie Francis Scholarship, and won cinematography awards for two consecutive years at the Kodak Student Commercial Awards. Since graduating in 2003 she has shot award winning short films, promos, feature films and documentaries across Africa, Asia, North America and Europe.

She is the first cinematographer ever selected for Screen International's Stars of Tomorrow 2012 feature, which highlights Britain's top film talent.

Annemarie has worked several times with acclaimed British directors Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross. She worked with Mat on the award winning documentary Moving To Mars which was the Winner of the 2010 Grierson Shell Award for Best Documentary on a Contemporary Subject and the opening gala film of The Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2009.

Wreckers the feature film starring Claire Foy, Benedict Cumberbatch and Shaun Evans, which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in 2011, was Annemarie's first collaboration working with the director DR Hood - (nominee for Best British Newcomer at the festival). They have a new feature project Us Among The Stones starring Lawrence Fox and Anna Calder Marshall.




STARS OF TOMORROW
Feature in Screen International June 2012
Screen International have featured Annemarie as their first ever cinematographer in their annual article Stars of Tomorrow with Britain's hottest actors, writers and directors of 2012

ANNEMARIE LEAN-VERCOE
Cinematographer
The lush vistas of UK thriller Wreckers saw cinematographer Annemarie Lean-Vercoe move into dramatic feature lensing last year to universal acclaim.

A graduate of Central Saint Martins’ foundation art course with a degree from the London College of Printing before entering the NFTS, Lean-Vercoe served an apprenticeship as trainee camera assistant on features including Tomb Raider, where she recalls “making a lot of tea for the cameraman and running around with boxes”.
Being a female cinematographer in a male-dominated field has its advantages, she says. “I look at reality with a slightly different, lyrical perspective,” she suggests. “And with documentaries, I’ve been sensitively and discreetly able to build trust with people, to go into their lives and see things that would normally be behind closed doors.”


To see the whole of the article see link below:

https://www.screendaily.com/Journals/2012/06/15/r/o/n/Stars-of-Tomorrow-2012.pdf