OUR Team
Andy Lawrence is a founding member of Filmmaking for Fieldwork. He convenes and teaches our annual F4F™ Summer School and online courses and he is active in offering editing support and project work. Andy is a senior lecturer at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester in the UK, where he is also filmmaker-in-residence. He currently holds visiting positions at the University of Tromsø in Norway and the Free University in Berlin, Germany. Andy studied social anthropology and ancient history at University College London and visual anthropology at the Granada Centre before receiving his PhD in Anthropology, Media and Performance from the University of Manchester. In the past he has made documentary for broadcast television in the UK, USA and the Netherlands and worked independently as a film and video artist. His films about childbirth, death, adolescence, old age, adventure and identity in the UK, India and Peru look at the uncertainty that surrounds momentous and life changing experiences. A selection of these can be viewed from this website. Currently, Andy is preparing to begin a new documentary film based in The Netherlands and he is co-editing a collection of essays with Martha Dietrich entitled, Empirical Art: Filmmaking for Fieldwork in practice (expected 2024). This follows his recent publication of Filmmaking for fieldwork: a practical handbook (2020) from Manchester University Press. 
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich began work as an F4F tutor in 2014. She is a regular contributor to our Summer School, specialising in participatory and collaborative filmmaking methods and editing support. Throughout her studies she has focused on filmmaking as a method of engagement in anthropological research and representation. She began this participatory work at community television stations in Venezuela (2007) before turning her attention to the role of imagination in the life of female offenders in a UK prison (2009). Her PhD thesis looked into ways of remembering the internal conflict in Peru, and their expressions through film. Currently Martha is preparing a new 3D documentary film in The Netherlands and co-editing Empirical Art: Filmmaking for Fieldwork in practice (expected 2024) with Andy. Martha is Assistant Professor in Media Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.
Angélica Cabezas Pino began working with us in 2018. She is a freelance documentary filmmaker and tutor on our F4F™ Summer School and online courses. Angelica is also involved in our project work and she is currently making a series of films for United Nations Women. She completed her PhD in Anthropology, Media and Performance at the University of Manchester in 2018. Her thesis explored the impact of HIV stigma in Chile using arts-based and collaborative methods. This is My Face (2018) her PhD documentary was shortlisted for the 2019 Richard Werbner award by the Royal Anthropological Institute. Angélica studied documentary filmmaking at the International School of Cinema in Cuba, and did and MPhil degree at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology. Prior to this, she worked as researcher and field producer in Chile for more than 8 years. She is now completing a new film exploring the challenges faced by women artists with experiences of displacement in Manchester, a project sponsored by the Lottery fund. 
Jón Bjarki Magnússon joined F4F in 2019 and he is currently available for project work. He is an anthropological filmmaker, with a background in journalism and poetry. His previous work includes award-winning journalism on the conditions of refugees and asylum-seekers in Iceland, a book of poetry and a short film on friendship in cyberspace, Even Asteroids Are Not Alone (2018), which was awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute & Marsh Short Film Prize for ‘most outstanding short film on social, cultural and biological anthropology or archaeology’ in 2019. Jón Bjarki studied creative writing at the University of Iceland and received his MA in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität, Berlin, in 2018. He is currently distributing his first feature-length documentary, Half Elf, co-produced by F4F's Andy Lawrence and featured on our projects page. Jón Bjarki is also the founder of SKAK BÍÓFILM, a small Icelandic production company dedicated to making anthropological and artistic films. He shares his base between Athens, Berlin and Reykjavík.
Olaf Lawrence joined F4F as work experience in 2019, during which time he provided valuable assistance on our annual Summer School. He is now working with F4F Projects, notably with international relations and LSE scholar, Professor William A. Callahan, to remix his film Great Walls (2019). Their work has helped to broaden the appeal of international politics to younger audiences. Olaf makes music videos and documentaries about subjects he is passionate about - the ocean, skateboarding, surfing and music. He  works with various formats, both digital and analogue, and has a love of all things vintage which he mixes with expert drone work, GoPro and SFX in contemporary mash-ups. Olaf splits his time between bases in Cornwall, London and Amsterdam and he is currently studying for a BA in Film and Television at Falmouth University.