Crew

Dynamic, precise
and with a trained eye for "wow"!

If you want to create film productions with a high visual impact, professional aerial shots are a must. Only a well-rehearsed team of drone pilots with deep technical knowledge and a trained eye for details is best suited for this.

Our pilot and camera team has over 15 years of professional experience and thousands of flight hours per year. On set, DIGICOPTER speaks the established film language, which creates a high level of trust among all parties involved.

Martin Rinderknecht

Martin Rinderknecht

Pilot and developer

Born in 1972 in St. Georgen in the Black Forest. Moved to Hanover in 1992 after training at the state precision engineering school. In 1995, together with Anne-Rikta Grobe, he opened RpunktDESIGN Werbeagentur GmbH, today the renowned and successful advertising agency RpunktMEDIA GmbH with 16 employees. Since 2004 Martin Rinderknecht has been developing camera helicopters, making him one of the pioneers in their commercial use. Since 2009, he has successfully accompanied more than 300 film sets.
Since 2015 he holds a flight license for his gyrocopter and produces, with the specially developed technology, high-quality aerial photography and aerial images for all genres.

Nikolaj Georgiew

Nikolaj Georgiew

Camera Operator

Born in Sofia in 1966, he began his career as a commercial photographer in Hanover in 1989. Since 1998 he has been shooting music videos with great success - among others for stars like Yvonne Catterfeld, Melanie C., Peter Maffay and for DSDS or Voice of Germany contestants, whose music videos and photo productions he has also accompanied photographically. Clients such as SONY MUSIC, BMG, WARNER, PORSCHE, MERCEDES BENZ, UNIVERSAL MUSIC are among his clients. Since 2010 he runs together with Martin Rinderknecht the highly specialized aerial photography label DIGICOPTER®, On his own homepage at www.georgiew.de you can find more productions Nikolaj has successfully supervised in his career.

Johannes Heine

Johannes Heine

Camera Operator

Born 1984 in Müllheim Baden-Württemberg, lives in Hildesheim and runs his own music video and image film production www.johannesheinefilm.com. He specializes in unseen, expressive images and is therefore predestined to work as a second camera operator in the DIGICOPTER® team. He stands for exceptional quality and efficiency. His many years of experience in the areas of motion pictures, commercials, TV feature films and image films make him an important part of the DIGICOPTER® success story.

Carolin Arnold

Carolin Arnold

Booking and Office Management

Carolin Arnold has been working at rpunktmedia GmbH in Hanover since 2021 in the office management department and supports DIGICOPTER® aerial photography in the area of booking office management. She is in constant contact with clients, production companies, TV stations and authorities (ascent permits, flight approvals) to coordinate the smooth professional process of all DIGICOPTER® aerial shots. You can reach Carolin Arnold during business hours at:
Email:Luftpost(at)digicopter.de
Phone:+49 (0)511-3 500 401

 

Annika Breitkreuz

Annika Breitkreuz

Camera Assistant

Anika Breitkreuz was born on 18.01.1984 in Werdau. She already gained a lot of experience in organizing short films and music videos in the studio of Nikolaj Georgiew and his wife. Since the beginning of 2009 she supports the team Georgiew and DIGICOPTER® in all production relevant preparations and takes over the organization and peripheral equipment on set.

 

Digicopter considers film as something universal, as a mesh of different approaches that converge at one point.