About:

HEllo - I’m harrison. I’m a Los Angeles born-and-based Director/DOP, and I like telling immersive visual stories around the globe. I love motorcycles, surfing, aviation, and anything having to do with craftsmanship, the outdoors, and artists and athletes with a purpose beyond their pursuit.

I love travel, languages, and the challenge of figuring out how to make good visual stories happen in far-away places…whether permission has been granted or not. Sometimes it’s more rewarding to go see something that you aren’t supposed to. I’ve shot in Shanghai, Beijing, Chile, Argentina, Taiwan, Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and MAcau. But mostly I shoot in los angeles, where i live with my wife, who is also a filmmaker and photographer. many of my good ideas come from her.

I like foreign languages too. I am fluent in Mandarin, and love shooting in asia, especially Shanghai and Beijing, where i lived for three years working as a director and cinematographer.

CAPABILITIES:

  • Badass director’s treatments. what’s the use of a good idea if there aren’t any pictures? i love writing.

  • end-to-end PRODUCTION. we can take a project all the way from concept & pre-pro to principal photography, Edit, Color, and Delivery, anywhere in the world.

  • Fluent in Mandarin Chinese. Well-versed in commercial and film production in Asia, with over a decade of experience directing and interfacing with mandarin-only crew + talent.

  • Faa-certified part 107 commercial drone pilot. fully insured for up to $5m, and we own and operate our own fleet of uavs. We fly FPV.

  • we license footage. get in touch for information about licensing footage for your project.

CONTACT:

harrison [dot] schaaf [at] gmail [dot] com