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Jo Willems

Birthplace:
Antwerp, Belgium

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Jo Willems is a Belgian cinematographer. Growing up in Westerlo outside Antwerp, he studied film at the LUCA School of Arts, before he relocated to the United Kingdom at the age of 21. He made his feature film cinematography debut with Hard Candy (2005) directed by David Slade, with whom Willems would also collaborate with again on 30 Days of Night (2007). Willems would reunite with music video director Francis Lawrence on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), serving as cinematographer on following installments of the franchise for Lawrence as well as the spy thriller Red Sparrow (2018), the fantasy adventure Slumberland (2022), and three episodes of the Apple TV+ series See (2019–2022).  For his work on the horror film His House (2020), Willems received a nomination for the British Independent Film Award for Best Cinematography.

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Director of Photography:
2003  Britney Spears: In the Zone
2004  Do Geese See God
2005  Hard Candy
2005  London
2007  30 Days of Night
2007  Rocket Science
2009  Confessions of a Shopaholic
2011  Limitless
2013  The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014  The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2015  The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2018  Nightmare Cinema
2018  Red Sparrow
2020  His House
2021  Finch
2022  Slumberland
2023  The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
????  Bando Stone and The New World
????  The Long Walk

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Director of Photography:
2019  See

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