Helki Frantzen Pro

Helki Frantzen is a documentary cinematographer based in Los Angeles. She is drawn to places of genuine community and loves exploring the ways that people get together.

Her work has screened at festivals worldwide including Tribeca, Sheffield, IDFA, Camden, DOC NYC, and AFI Fest and has appeared on TV and online outlets such as PBS, BBC, the L.A Times, the Atlantic, Vice News and Rollingstone Magazine. She is currently DP’ing a documentary mini-series for Hulu (Dir. Michael Beach Nichols, EP Erin Lee Carr).

Her work on RICHLAND (Tribeca '23), a feature length documentary directed by Irene Lusztig, was filmed with “gorgeous and eerie precision" according to ‘Richland’ Review: A Sobering View of a Town Taken Advantage Of (The Wrap).

Documentaries Helki has DP’d have received multiple awards, including a Los Angeles Area Emmy, numerous Los Angeles Press Club awards and a Golden Mike award. Helki is a member of the International Collective of Female Cinematographers and the Documentary Cinematographer's Alliance.