Gints Berzins has received a degree from the prestige Russian State University of Cinematography in Moscow. In cooperation with the Latvian film director Laila Pakalniņa Gints has created a new poetic and fotogenic reality. He has received the National Film Award for the Best Documentary Director of Photography in 1996 (for documentaries Ferry, Post, Ubāns) and the National Film Award for the Best Feature Film Director of Photography in 2003 (Pitons), in 2007 (together with Andrij Parekh and
Sam Moon (Vogelfrei). He has been nominated in 2005 for fiction film The White Beast, Water in 2007 and Silence and Loss in 2009. In 2012 he received the National Film Award as the Best Feature Film Director of Photography for the feature drama Golf Stream Under Iceberg and Amaya.
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