David Claessen is a Dutch cinematographer and director.
David Claessen | |
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Born | |
Occupation(s) | Film director, producer, cinematographer |
Years active | 1985–present |
Notable work | The Rosa Parks Story Diary of a Mad Black Woman |
Spouses | Karen Green
(m. 1992; div. 2002) |
Website | www |
Claessen attended the Netherlands Film Academy (Dutch: Nederlandse Filmacademie) in Amsterdam.
In 1983, he shot Haute Mer, directed by French filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky.[1]
In 1997 Claessen met director Julie Dash. They have collaborated on four films together: including the award-winning The Rosa Parks Story, Love Song (2000), Brothers of the Borderland (2004), and Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl (2016).[2]
In 1986, Claessen moved to the United States where he met Whoopi Goldberg during production of a documentary entitled Who Are They? They married in September 1986 and divorced two years later.[3]