Jo Willems

Personal Info

Known For Camera

Gender Male

Place of Birth Antwerp, Belgium

Jo Willems

Biography

Jo Willems is a Belgian cinematographer. Growing up in Westerlo outside Antwerp, he studied film at the LUCA School of Arts, before he relocated to the United Kingdom at the age of 21. He made his feature film cinematography debut with Hard Candy (2005) directed by David Slade, with whom Willems would also collaborate with again on 30 Days of Night (2007). Willems would reunite with music video director Francis Lawrence on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), serving as cinematographer on following installments of the franchise for Lawrence as well as the spy thriller Red Sparrow (2018), the fantasy adventure Slumberland (2022), and three episodes of the Apple TV+ series See (2019–2022). For his work on the horror film His House (2020), Willems received a nomination for the British Independent Film Award for Best Cinematography.

Known For

Camera

Bando Stone and The New World

as Director of Photography

The Long Walk

as Director of Photography

2022
Slumberland

as Director of Photography

2021
Finch

as Director of Photography

2020
His House

as Director of Photography

2019
See

as Director of Photography

2018
Red Sparrow

as Director of Photography

2018
Nightmare Cinema

as Director of Photography

2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

as Director of Photography

2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

as Director of Photography

2013
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

as Director of Photography

2011
Limitless

as Director of Photography

2009
Confessions of a Shopaholic

as Director of Photography

2007
30 Days of Night

as Director of Photography

2007
Rocket Science

as Director of Photography

2005
Hard Candy

as Director of Photography

2005
London

as Director of Photography

2004
Do Geese See God

as Director of Photography

2003
Britney Spears: In the Zone

as Director of Photography