Aaron Ohlmann is an American filmmaker best known for his work for Netflix and Vice, and producing the feature documentaries '' Viva Cuba Libre'' and '' Here Is Always Somewhere Else''.

Career

Television

In 2019 Ohlmann produced Larry Charles' Dangerous World of Comedy, a four part Netflix Original series that follows legendary comedy writer and director Larry Charles as he travels the world in search of humor in unusual, unexpected and dangerous places. Ohlmann has produced and directed television for VICE, including episodes of

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shot in Cameroon, Japan and China. In one of the episodes, he partnered with journalist Melanie Gouby to track poaching corridors from West Africa into Hong Kong. He also worked as a producer on the HBO special: VICE Special Report - A World in Disarray.

Film

In Cuba he produced and edited Viva Cuba Lib: Rap is War, a feature about the controversial hiphop duo . It was promoted by

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and received the DocU Award Nomination at IDFA. In Northern Iraq he directed the 360° film
The Call Center
' featuring the recordings of refugees displaced by the war with ISIS. The making of this film was profiled by GOOD Magazine in the article ''In the Line of Fire'' and in an interview with Ohlmann by Katie Wudel. The Badger Herald and the blog NoFilmSchool have also written about his work for VICE and the United Nations in dangerous places. He spent a year working at the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where he create
an online archive
of interviews with people who worked for the United Nation's tribunal. He has collaborated extensively with writer/director Rene Daalder, with whom he produced, edited and shot '' Here Is Always Somewhere Else,'' a documentary about artist

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. This movie received a nomination for the Gouden Kalf. In 2005, Ohlmann was a resident artist at the Wexner Center for the Arts with Daalder.

Music Videos

Ohlmann produced music videos for the band Fol Chen for Asthmatic Kitty Records, the band YACHT for DFA Records, LA electronic artis
Sinosa
Nigerian dancehall artist General Pype, and the experimental Chinese band White+.

Personal life

Ohlmann graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2003 and currently lives in Los Angeles.

References

External links

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