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

Life

Kopp shot and co-produced Saving Face (2012), the Oscar-winning documentary about acid attacks in Pakistan. He and his partner Amanda Kopp shot for The Hunting Ground (2015), about sexual assault on American college campuses.^[1]

Aaron and Amanda Kopp's 2017 movie Liyana, eight years in the making,^[2] 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 (New Life Homes) orphanage in Kamfishane, Shiselweni Region. Liyana is executive-produced by Thandiwe Newton, who heard about the project through filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.^[3]

Filmography

As director

• Likhaya, 2009
• Liyana, 2017

As cinematographer

• Her Life is My Teacher, 2008
• Begin, 2009
• Del:100, 2010
• Arise, 2012
• Living on the Edge of Disaster: Climate's Human Cost, 2014
• The Hunting Ground, 2015
• Dime Short, 2017
• Turns in the Road, 2018

As cinematographer and producer

• Saving Face, 2012