Alexander Witt

Alexander B Witt born 1952 is a Chilean Hollywood filmmaker who has worked mostly as a camera operator and second unit director His feature directorial debut came in 2004 with Resident Evil Apocalypse based on the popular Capcom video game series Witt also became the 2nd unit director on the James Bond movie Casino Royale in 2006 From a 2004 interview on IGN he says this about his history I was born in Chile the third generation of Germans there And we moved to Mexico from Mexico in 73 I moved to Europe where I started working in film I started with Arriflex the company that makes the cameras I was there for a year and I did kind of a trainee type of year where I was in the sound department in the lab in the studio working with the actual productions and also assembling cameras And then I moved to Europe where I lived three years and then back in 76 I did my first movie as a camera assistant which was 21 Hours at Munich And then I kept on going I moved up to focus puller or first AC and then operating and then DPing And then I was DPing commercials and then I started directing commercials in the late 80s and beginning of the 90s I was working with Jan and doing his second unit as a DP while he was a DP He is the one that really gave me the break on Speed 1 to start directing second unit Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexander Witt licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia