Andrew Braun is a Luxembourgish director, cinematographer and journalist, whose fieldwork ranges from the Tibetan Plateau to the Arctic. He grew up in Appalachia Kentucky, and began his career at the Associated Press in China, where he then lived and worked for a decade, traveling the country from north to south. He was among the first foreign media inside the newly established Sanjiangyuan National Park in Qinghai Province, China, where he photographed wild snow leopards.
His inspiration for this workshop was the extensive use of different maps to locate Ghado Jobo - one of four sacred Tibetan Buddhist mountains - in 2022.
He has produced conservation films for UNEP and China's Shanshui Conservation Center. He is now developing a documentary series with UNEP's Vanishing Treasures programme about mountain wildlife and the people who live alongside it, from snow leopards in Kyrgyzstan to mountain gorillas in the Virunga.
His recent films follow fisheries and ocean life: Arctic king crab for Bloomberg (2024), sharks in the Adriatic for CNN (2025) and Atlantic sardine fishing for the Guardian (2026). His work has also appeared with National Geographic, Discovery, Channel 4, Al Jazeera and Le Monde.
He is also developing projects on the sacred mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and Greater China, Alaska's Kotzebue Sound, and Nigeria's Cross River State, most of which began on a map. He is a member of the Explorers Club and the Luxembourg Film Academy, a Fjällräven ambassador and a Sony ambassador, and runs braunosaurus/Working Notes Productions from Amsterdam.
