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Today we're speaking with a cinematographer. Her credits include The Hunt, Fences, Molly's

Game and a Quiet Place. We're pleased to welcome Charlotte Bruce Christensen with us today.

Thank you Charlotte for doing this.

Thank you Charlotte. Hi.

Thank you so much for having me. Thank you for the invitation.

We'd love to start asking you what your path was. Was this something you always knew you wanted

to do as a child were you visual or did you go down another path and then find cinematography?

Tell us your story. I don't think I was aware that this was the path but there's only really been

this one path but I grew up at a farm in the middle of nowhere in Denmark so my dad is a dairy farmer

and my mom's a hairdresser and no relationships to the film industry whatsoever. I mean going to the

movies were you know once a year sort of the the birthday present or something so we would see sort

of a day new kids movie or something so I wasn't sort of educated at all into the industry.

So I remember stealing my parents 35 millimeter camera and I've been like 10 or 12 years old

or something like that and walking around this farm taking photos of either light because my dad

my dad mom was a painter and he always looked at light or spoke about light you know you know

different places that the farmer should go to this spot and it's so amazing at four o'clock and

you know the autumn or go to the hay after we just throw the hay up we'll get the dust when the

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