Liisa Juuti
Meet Liisa Juuti @liisajuuti
With Finnish origins and based in Baja California, Mexico, Liisa has worked as one half of team @azuloceano around the world for the past 8 years full time -operating the second camera underwater, assembling and operation of light rigs, safety diving, fixing, rebreather diving. Liisa's main strengths are her capacity and sensitivity to “read” the animals and their behavior and approach them underwater, as well as her great stamina and resilience that allows her to work in long, demanding shoots and long days at sea.
She has worked for landmark series such as Blue Planet II (shared BAFTA award as camera team), and Spy in the Wild II for the BBC, as well as natural history programs produced for NatGeo / Disney+, PBS, ITVX, Netflix and Smithsonian. The last 3 years she has been filming an ocean wildlife series for the BBC, under NDA, to be released in March 2023.
Concerned of the conservation of the sharks in the area she lives in Mexico, Liisa was instrumental in the making of the short film “Sharks of the Sea of Cortés – A Lost Treasure?” revealing the sad history of the hammerhead shark population, looking for solutions for the future.
Recent Credits;
2020-2022 ‘NDA’ | BBC 1 | John Downer Productions | UW & Spy Cam assistant, second camera, fixer
2021: ‘SuperNatural’ | National Geographic and Disney+ | Plimsoll Productions | UW assistant, fixer & second camera
2021: ‘Sharks of the Sea of Cortez’ | Sylvia A. Earle & Pelagios Kakunjá | camerawoman, scriptwriter
2020-2021: ‘A Year on Planet Earth’ | ITVX | Plimsoll Productions | UW assistant, fixer, second camera
2020: ‘Shark with Steve Backshall’ | Sky Nature & Sky Studios / NBCU | True to Nature | UW assistant & second camera
Key skills;
Underwater Cinematography, rEvo rebreather, Spy Cam / Remote Cameras, Underwater Lighting, big stamina, teamwork.
Get in touch with Liisa at liisa@azuloceano.com
