Helkin Rene Diaz (adfc)

Camera Operator, Cinematographer, Director of Photography and Photographer (Still)

Bogotá, Colombia

Member Since:
December 2011

Last online:
> 2 weeks ago

Invites sent:
0

About Helkin

How you see things, is how you are.
Helkin Rene Diaz is a cinematographer member of the ADFC(Association of Directors of Photography in Colombia) working in Colombia and Spain. His main passion is the area of documentary. He studied film and photography in Colombia(2001), and Photojournalism and cinematography in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2008). His works are focussed in people habits. Actually he works as a freelance photographer and cinematographer.

In 2008 he was camera man in the documentary film The Crown nominated to the Academy Awards and honor mention in Sundance Film Festival 2008.

His work The Last Gamblers about gamblers in the racetracks in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was nominated to the FNPI (Fundacion nuevo periodismo iberoamericano) prize in photography on july 2010. This reportage was published in the Mexican magazine GATO PARDO in 2008. Also in the Argentinian magazine VIVA in 2008, and was exhibited in Colombia in 2009 in to the photographic festival FOTOGRAFICA 2009.

In 2009 Diaz published with Punto Aparte Editores and the World Bank, the book VOICES, STORIES OF HOPE AND VIOLENCE IN COLOMBIA. This book was launched and exhibited in Washington D.C. in the World bank headquarters on september 2009 and in Paris on 2010.

In 2010 he was the cinematographer and camera man in the feature documentary film JALA- A JOURNEY THROUGH THE SENSES OF WATER in India, shot on the RED system and now in post-production.

Some of his clients are Punto Aparte editores(Colombia), UD&SE magazine (Dinamarca), Avianca Magazine (Colombia),Gatopardo Magazine (Mexico), Poder Magazine(USA), Bogota Digital Cinema(Colombia), Fashion TV Latin America(Argentina), MTV, Run Away films (USA) and Le films du Losange(Francia).

Gender:
Male

Body type:
Slim

Eyes:
Brown

Ethnicity:
Latin/Hispanic

Badges

Credits

Alis (2022)
Documentary by casatarantula Cinematographer/Camera operator ALIS | #AlisExiste 84'. Colombia, Romania, Chile. 2022. DIRECTORS AND PRODUCERS > Nicolas van Hemelryck and Clare Weiskopf - CASATARANTULA DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND CAMERA MAN: Helkin René Díaz PRODUCERS > Radu Stancu and Alexandra Galvis / DEFILM and PANTALLA CINES SALES > Latido Films AWARDS · BERLINALE > Crystal Bear and Teddy Award / Germany · FIC GUADALAJARA > Best International Documentary Feature / Mexico · SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST > Youth Jury Award / UK · FEST NEW DIRECTORS NEW FILMS > Golden Lynx for Best Documentary / Portugal · HOTDOCS > Audience Top 20 / Canada
GANGES, A JOURNEY THROUGH THE SENSES OF WATER / INDIA (2019)
Documentary by ROBERTO RESTREPO (Documentary) CINEMATOGRAPHER / CAMERA MAN
A River Below (2017)
Documentary by Sandarba Films Cinematographer/Camera operator A documentary as dramatic, ambiguous, and multilayered as any fiction film, A RIVER BELOW examines the efforts of two conservationists in the Amazon to bring about change by using the national media, only to discover the consequences of their actions come with a high price. A RIVER BELOW provides an eye-opening look at what happens when passion and opinion trump reason and morality. The crux of the story questions the truth in images, its manipulation to get the public’s attention and, ultimately, who pays the price for someone else’s passion for radical change. “A vital work of art for the post-truth era of alternative facts...One of the craziest fucking movies I've seen. A RIVER BELOW is about the power of video, and its complicated relationship to the truth." Sarah Jeong, VICE Motherboard “Flipping the time-honoured eco advocacy doc on its head, filmmaker Mark Grieco uses a campaign to save the endangered pink dolphin, found in various stretches of the Amazon, as a way to question the selfish motivations of documentary makers fighting for a noble cause.” David Jenkens, Little White Lies "Incisively examines the complications of engaging in a crusade via public TV" Nick Schaeger, Variety “Grieco constantly upends our expectations, proving that nothing is as simple as it seems” Allan Hunter, Screen Daily “Audiences are treated to both an eco-thriller with plenty of twists and turns, and a probing rebuttal to a world full of alternative facts.” Manuel Betancourt, Remezcla
THE CROWN (2008)
Documentary by RUN AWAY FILMS / AMANDA MICHELLI ADDITIONAL CAMERA