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Caroline Mariko Stucky
Biography
Caroline Mariko Stucky is an award-winning Swiss-Japanese independent filmmaker with a fierce passion for American culture. For Caroline, film, the world of the image, is the ultimate language that trumps the whirling kaleidoscope of spoken languages of
her childhood. Her work includes fiction, documentary, commercial, live performance videos, and music videos. With an unusually technical background, Stucky is active as both a cinematographer and director.
In 2018, Stucky shot seven music videos for Dave Keuning, guitarist of The Killers, for his debut solo album Prismism. She directed and shot three music videos released this winter/spring, Don’t You Worry, Only Love _and _Sunday Morning, _for the band 2 Story Cabin, filming in New York and Rome. Last spring, she directed the pilot episode of _Paramour No More, a half-hour TV show created by Rena Carter that was selected at the SeriesFest Season 5 and won the Creator Content Award from Women in Film & Television US. Her latest and most personal film "Us" had its US Premiere at the SAG-AFTRA New York Short Film Showcase in March 2017 and is now available on Amazon Prime. Also as a director, 2014 has marked the premieres of her two short films "Paper Boats" and "Color/Blind" in New York and Los Angeles.
Stucky has shot contents for clients including Facebook, Facebook at the Essence Festival, Disney, Cartier, Deloitte, Siemens, New York Times, Time’s Up, the Guggenheim Museum, Adobe U99 Conference, Ferrero, Intuit, Dr. Phil, Medscape, Weatherproof Vintage, Tinder and the Basketball Hall of Fame, just to name a few, while working for various companies such as Small Media Extra Large, The Muse, 186 Productions, GoBeyond, Prosper Digital, and Artless Media, as a director of photography or camera operator.
As for narrative fiction, her most notable work has been on Starfish, her first feature film as a cinematographer, which was selected in five film festivals and won the Audience Choice Award at the Mystic Film Festival 2018. The Perfect Bunny, written and directed by multiple Goya Award winner Jorge Laplace, Wishful Whiskers, a children's short starring Ilana Becker and Sophie Knapp. Brunch Wars, written and directed by Kamran Khan, which is a second collaboration with producer Pulkit Datta, writer/director of Wishful Whiskers, and Carry Me _a show created by Alison Bartlett, starring herself, Chloe Levine and Joan Porter. Her second feature film _Solomon, written & directed by J.B. Armstrong, was selected to the 2018 Sundance Detroit Private Master Class and the 2015 Sundance Detroit Screenwriters Intensive Lab. Stucky has been a member of the International Collective of Female Cinematographers since 2017.
Caroline Mariko graduated in Screenwriting and Filmmaking from the New York Film Academy in New York, and also studied at the NYFA in Los Angeles. She was in residence at the Locarno International Film Festival Summer Academy in 2010 and completed an Internship at Cinegate in Hamburg in 2010. Stucky also studied History of Cinema at the UNIL in Lausanne.