Kai Mantsch: Cinematographer

Kai has been working in independent film, with a focus on documentary, for more than thirteen years. He has spent months on remote Texas ranch land working in high winds and 100 degree heat. He has crouched for hours overnight in cold fog waiting for penguins to emerge from hiding. He has run across muddy fields while being hosed down with pesticides, camped in desolate deserts, jumped onto moving trucks during street protests, and followed senators behind the scenes. Rain, dust, irritable child actors and drunken rambling subjects have not deterred him, nor have busy CEOs with only moments to spare.

He is credited on a long list of documentaries including Blaze Foley: Duct Tape Messiah, Slam Planet, The Dicky Box, Bill Bradley's New American Story and recent projects This is Now and A Little Revolution. Kai is currently in pre-production on "The Librarian's Mission", a film about the power of librarian ideals in a changing world, and production on "Tomlinson Hill" about a small, racially divided town in Texas trying to come together.

Official Selection - 2nd Chennai International Documentary & Short Film Festival  2014 Official Selection - Madurai Film Festival 2013 Best Social Entrepreneur - Third World Independent Film Festival 2012 Honorable Mention - Bayou City Inspirational Film Festival  2012 Official Selection - Punjabi International Film Festival 2012 Official Selection - DC South Asian Film Festival 2012 Official Selection - Chicago International Social Change Film Festival 2012 Official Selection - UNSPOKEN Human Rights Film Festival 2012 Official Selection - North Carolina Indian & South Asian Film Festival 2012
Official Selection - Jeevika Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival 2013 Official Selection - Women's International Film & Arts Festival 2012 Official Selection - India International Film Festival of Tampa Bay 2012 Official Selection - International SURGE Film Festival 2012 Opening Night Film Sikhlens Film Festival 2011 Official Selection Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival 2011 Opening Night Film Sikh International Film Festival 2011 Official Selection Chagrin Documentary Film Festival 2011 United Nations Global Wake-Up Film Festival 2011
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