Kashfi Halford

Meet Kashfi Halford @kashfihalford

Kashfi has been involved in the camera department since 2001 moving into being a camera operator on documentaries, one of her first big operating jobs was on the critically acclaimed ‘The End of the Line’ in 2009 about the future of the world’s oceans. Kashfi spent nearly 15 years in the UK film industry before relocating to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, seven years ago. Drawn to projects focused on the environment and nature, she works as a camera operator and DOP on long-format documentaries for the BBC, Al Jazeera, and others while also producing, shooting, directing, and editing short-form documentaries for Mongabay, Euronews and others highlighting important conservation and biodiversity stories.

Recent credits: 

2024 - Mongabay - Back to the forest; Brown howler monkeys reintroduced into the Atlantic forest in Rio de Janeiro

2024 - Mongabay - Saved from extinction, the Guiana dolphins of Rio de Janeiro

2024 - Euronews - The fight against ghost fishing nets choking the Atlantic Ocean

2023 - Mongabay - New futures for the Atlantic forest

2023 - Mongabay - Coffee and climate change in the coffee ranges of São Paulo

Key skills: 

Camera operator, self-shooting producer/director for short films, visual storyteller, editor, stills photographer, gimbals and UK certified drone operator, PADI open water diver, bilingual (English & Portuguese)

Top tip: 

Try to see beauty everywhere. Be curious, be humble and be kind.

Get in touch with Kashfi here -

kashfii@gmail.com
https://www.kashfihalford.com/filmmaker