Cinematographer
Pau Mirabet Peraire
Pau has been filming features and documentaries all over the world for more than 20 years. Enjoying the process of filmmaking and revelling in traveling, Pau has developed a unique personal eye as well as a taste for the simple, exquisite, and emotional light, creating meaningful, and perfectionist camera work. He is keen on using available natural light and perfecting it whenever possible. When natural light does what nature wants or in studio, he likes clever, coherent, non-annoying lightning setups, allowing actors the maximum concentration and freedom for their best performance. Projects he has filmed have won over 40 prizes and his cinematography has been awarded several times, among them, a honourable mention at prestigious CAMERIMAGE 2010.
Born in Barcelona in 1977, he studied Engineering, Cinema and Filmmaking-specialising in direction of photography. He started his professional career in the camera department in several Peter Greenaway films, debuting as a cinematographer in 2002, beginning by filming music videos and commercials for recognised film directors such as Santiago Zannou and Claudia Llosa as well as art pieces for La Fura dels Baus. During these first years he started his collaboration with theatre director and scriptwriter Ivan Morales. Following this, he shot his first feature in 2005 and embarked in the shooting of three ethnographic documentary films for national TV, that took him to the most remote islands of Asia. Since then he has been filming commercials, music promos, docs and features around the world (Spain, France, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, Italy, UK, Ireland, Greece, USA, Canada, India, UAE, Mongolia, Portugal, South Korea, Japan, Russia, Belgium, Morocco, Algeria, Senegal, Gambia, South Africa, Indonesia, Tunisia, Austria, Czech Republic and Singapore are just some of the countries he has been shooting in).
In 2009 he shot the cult documentary “The land inhabited” (one of his most regarded films) in Mongolia and Russia. This was recognised and awarded at DocsLisboa. In 2010 “Letters from the desert”, an Italian production, filmed in the Tar desert, won more than 20 prizes, among them several recognising his skill in cinematography including the well respected Cameraimage 2010 (honourable mention) as well as picking up cinematography prizes at Los Angeles Movie Awards and Levante International Film festival. The feature “Looking for Eimish” made in 2011 with Emma Suarez, Oscar Jaenada and Birol Ünel, was filmed in Spain, Germany and Italy. His cinematography in the short film “The Only Man” was awarded at the New Delhi Film Festival in 2013.
After that, he embarked in international feature productions “Nightworld” and “The ghosts of Garip” that took him to Bulgaria and Istanbul, and made him give up shooting commercials to concentrate only in feature films and documentaries. His feature “Palestine” is a drama set in the enclosed city of Hebron, filmed in Morocco, and directed by Julio Soto Gurpide, followed by “The Man Who Wanted to See it All”, a exquisite documentary about the last days of the most travelled man in the history of mankind, filmed in the UK, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan and Spain. His last works are Netflix’s Original high-end show “Criminal”, and led him to work with awarded directors Mariano Barroso, Frédéric Mermoud and Oliver Hirschbiegel, and Girl Next, a US production by Larry Wade Carrell shot entirely in Texas. In 2021 he has filmed The Ghosts of Monday by Francesco Cinquemani, in Cyprus and The Quantum devil again with Larry Wade Carrel, US production shot in Belgrade.
In 2022, he embarked again with awarded director Oliver Hirschbigel in the high-end miniseries Unwanted, for Sky Studios and, and in 2023 he shot the Netflix Original’s miniseries Asaf, The Story of a Serious Man”, filmed entirely in the city of Istanbul.
His other passion is History of Art, and he regularly lectures on the History of Painting and Psychology of Image at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya.
Pau speaks fluent English, Spanish and Catalan and working Italian. He is based in Barcelona.
