Introduction

I'm owner of small production company for productions related with educational, corporative and documentary films, with 25 Years of experience in TV and film.
I mostly work as freelance TV cameraman / editor / director.
I like work on documentary and corporative films because I love the challenge of improvising in demanding and fast working conditions bearing in mind the expected final result and quality,working in both SD or HD.
I'm equipped with Sony HDV camcorders HVR- Z1 and HDR-HC 1 with Amphibico Evo Pro underwater housing and Matrox RT-X 100 non linear editing suit ( Adobe Premiere Pro, Audition ).
Also I'm familiar with field sound production, linear and non-linear editing suits, underwater ( Amphibico, Ewa marine, Sea & Sea ) and aerial shooting .
I'm involved in speleology / caving for 20 Years as speleological instructor ( HSS / CSF), cave diver and independent filmmaker worked on explorations and documentation of over 500 caves around world.
In last ten Years I made and produced as author ( cameraman, editor, director ) 20 documentaries mostly about speleological expeditions and explorations around the world ( Croatia, Brazil, South Korea, Russia-Siberia, Greece, Lebanon, Puerto Rico, Iran, USA ).
This gave me experience in technical organization for expeditions, shooting in hard conditions and complex situations.
My film "The Red Lake" was awarded by festival jury with the 3rd Price in the 13th International Speleological Congress in Brasilia in film festival Speleomedia 2001 in competition with National Geographic, RAI, and similar high budget productions.
"Bridge in Tunnel" and "Iran - Beyond the shadow of Damawand Mt." are awarded in NSS Video salon 2010, please follow link below with inserts from my films :

http://www.caves.org/committee/salons/Video_2010_Winners.shtml

You can contact me by this e-mail : boriswatz@gmail.com

Work Experience

My work experience and professional references:


1982 – 1991 Sound recordist / sound engineer for TV and film, Croatian TV ( HTV )

• I worked in all TV forms: ENG, EFP, live broadcast, music and propaganda's clips and spots, TV-reports, TV-documentaries, TV feature films, drama and series, corporate films, sport coverage
• “The secret flow of Korana river”, documentary film - Location sound (caving and cave diving included), sound post production and sound FX, music selection. Presented in the 10th International Speleological Congress Budapest 1989, and awarded in film festival Barcelona / Torrelo 1991.


1991 – 1997 Freelance sound recordist / sound engineer for TV and film :

• TV-reports and documentary films about war in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Collaboration with major TV-broadcast houses from USA, Canada and Europe: CNN, BBC, PBS, Channel 4, SWT (Sweden), NTV (Netherlands), DTV (Denmark), ARD, WDR, ZDF, Pro7, 3Sat, Deutsche Welle, Bayerische Rundfunk (Germany) …
• 1989 - 1991 Corporate films for “Viadukt”, “Hidroelektra”, “Dalekovod”, “Pastor”, “Vatrotehna”, - awarded on Propaganda's and corporative film festival, Maribor / Slovenia 1990, (all produced by Delta studio, Zagreb)
• “Back stage of Eurovision song contest, Zagreb 1990”, documentary film
• “The long day of Mr. Oscar”, directed by L.Vindakijevic, feature-video film
• Documentary films “Profession Mam”, “Pit Bull Rocky”, (directed by G.Rusinovic) - sponsored of Danish film institute
• feature film "Mondo Bobo" (directed by G.Rusinovic - awarded with 4 "Golden Arena's" / Pula, Croatia)
• 1997 – 1998 Documentary films – “Exhuming the Truth”, “In broad of daylight” ( produced by “Gral film”- awarded )

1997 – 2008 Working as freelance cameraman, editor and / or director:

• authored TV-reportage's for Croatian TV (HTV) 7-15 min all with speleology as leading theme (protection and surveying caverns, caves and water in karstic regions of Croatia and Slovenia, cave researching in Brazil, Russia-Siberia, Korea etc. )
• 1998. cameraman, editor : “Exploration of Sinicica cave”
Cave diving expedition “Croatia ‘98”
• 1999 – 2000 ENG for CCN (Croatian Cable Network) – cameraman
• 2000 – 2004 TV series – TV cameraman:
“Speed” - cars, “Welcome”- tourism, “Expertise's”- health, “Elite party” - fashion & art
• 2000. Corporate film as cameraman / DP: Jamnica (mineral water)
• 2001. Video documentation for Pliva (pharmacy) – cameraman
• 2002. TV - spots “Afrodita” - cosmetics - DP / cameraman
• 2003. “Johnny be good” – documentary film - DP / cameraman
• 2004. “1:1.000.000” - documentary film about diving excitant in the Red sea - screenplay & directing
• 2004. two TV - spots for “Croatian transplantation association “ screenplay, directing and DP
• Corporate films as cameraman, screenplay and/or director:
“Lesmart” ( 2002 )
“Tourist society of town Rovinj” (2005 )
“Rovinj - host of 17th Eurosport festival” (2005)
“Diver sport centre Rovinj” (2005) - diving in wreck
“Welcome to Hostel Lika” ( 2009 )
• Corporate film as cameraman / DP:
Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts (2004.)
”The road of positive energy” (2005.) - Dalekovod (Steel constructions)
“Dangerous zone” (2006.) - Dalekovod (Steel constructions)
2007 -2009 video documentation for Dalekovod (Steel constructions)
• 1999. – 2009. video & photo documentation and explorations of all caverns (caves with artificially open entrance) on Croatian Motorway Zagreb - Split, Zagreb - Rijeka ( 400 caverns - some longer than 1 km)
• 2004. – 2005. Underwater photo & video documentation - collaboration with EKPP (one of the best technical cave diving team in the world) in exploration of Majer's spring / Croatia (explorations will continue)
• 2006. Underwater photo & video documentation and explorations - cave diving in spring (underground water accumulation)
• 2007 “Sufosia – Live in Time” – rock concert – producer / cameraman / editor
• 2008 “Ruff – Live in Sax” – jazz concert - producer / cameraman / editor
• 2009 “Ruff – Live in Cab Club” - jazz concert - producer / cameraman / editor
• 2009 “Ruff – Live in The Jazz Club” - jazz concert - producer / cameraman / editor


1998 - 2009 Author of documentary's films
( cameraman, editor, director and / or producer ) :

“The Red Lake” ( 2001) – awarded in film festival “Speleomedia 2001”
in 13th International Speleological Congress in Brazil
“Korean Cave Expo” ( 2002 )
“Pictures of Siberia” ( 2003 )
“Cavern in Tunnel St. Rok”, ( 2003 )
“1 : 1 000 000” ( 2004 )
“Cavern in Fat hill”( 2004 )
“Training of cave rescue in cave system Dula- Medvedica”( 2004)
“Majer’s spring”, (2004)
“Caves and caverns in Jelar beds” ( 2005 )
“Terra Ronca – Trembling Land”, (2005)
“Caverns of Croatian Motorway” ( 2005 )
“City of Zagreb NGO’s week”( 2006)
“1st Sport games of Transplanted persons”(2006)
“Pictures of Lebanon” (2006)
“Cavern in Tunnel “Vrata” (2007)
“Opportunity for New Life” (2007)
“Two Faces of Puerto Rico” ( 2007- 2008 )
“Bridge in Tunnel” ( 2007-2009 ) - awarded in NSS Video salon 2010
“Transplant – first four Years” ( 2009 )
“CSF seminar of SRT and anchoring techniques” ( 2009 )
"Iran - Beyond the shadow of Damawand Mt." ( 2008 - 2009 )
- awarded in NSS Video salon 2010
"ICS 2009 Kerville, Texas"
"CSF / HSS seminar of cave self rescuing" ( 2009 )
"House of life Zagreb" ( 2009 )