Harun Mehmedinović


Harun Mehmedinović is a Bosnian American director, screenwriter, photographer, cinematographer, and author. He is a graduate of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and American Film Institute. He is the co-creator of the viral timelapse series SKYGLOW, and is the cinematographer and co-producer of the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced documentary Ice on Fire for HBO, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival May 22, 2019. He is the writer/director of In the Name of the Son, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and went on to win over thirty international awards including Shanghai Film Festival.

Career

Mehmedinović is a graduate of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and American Film Institute. He wrote and directed In the Name of the Son, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and went on to win over thirty international awards.
He is also an award winning photographer and contributor to BBC Earth, National Geographic, Vogue Italia, and has spoken at TED about his photography work. His photograph of the cloud-inverted Grand Canyon was listed among the 2015 Best Travel Photos of the Year by National Geographic. In 2016, Mehmedinović was on the BBC Earth Instagram team that won Webby Award for "Best Photography and Graphics." His work has been featured by various media outlets, including The New York Times, Wired, Time, Sierra Club Magazine, Forbes, NPR, Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Vice, and Washington Post, among others.
Mehmedinović has also contributed time-lapse videos for use in concerts and events, most notably by The Rolling Stones for their song Moonlight Mile during their Zip Code Tour in 2015 as well as for their songs Wild Horses and Angie for their Desert Trip appearance, Roger Waters for his song Breathe during the 2016 Desert Trip festival, Cosmic Gate for their music video for the single am2pm in 2016, and Paul Simon’s 2018 Homeward Bound Farewell Tour.
Mehmedinović is an author of three photography books: Seance, in 2013, with a foreword by Aleksandar Hemon, Persona in 2015, and SKYGLOW in 2017. Mehmedinovic collaborated with Gavin Heffernan on SKYGLOW, which was a crowdfunded book and Blu-Ray intended to tackle the rising danger and damage of urban light pollution. The fundraising campaign generated a tremendous amount of publicity and ended on May 9, 2015 as the fourth most successful Kickstarter campaign in the Photobooks category. SKYGLOW was featured by Science Channel's Outrageous Acts of Science, National Park Service as part of their official 2016 Centennial celebration video, and was released as a hardcover book and Blu-Ray series in April 2017.
In 2019, Mehmedinović competed work as a cinematographer on the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced Ice on Fire for HBO, which premiered to a standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival as part of the Official Selection.

Credits

Feature documentary films