Biography

Hoyte van Hoytema was born in Horgen, Switzerland. Van Hoytema is a Dutch-Swedish director of photography known for his work on The Fighter (2010), Her (2013), Interstellar (2014), and Dunkirk (2017). Van Hoytema always wanted to be a filmmaker and wished to attend a film school in The Netherlands, but was rejected twice. After the rejection, Van Hoytema worked in a soap factory, carpentry factory and even played in a band. Hoyte and his brother decided to go to Poland to visit their roots as their grandpa was Polish. He eventually went on to attend the Polish film school in Lodz, which has been attended by other notable filmmakers such as Andrzej Wajda, Roman Polanski, and Krzysztof Kieslowski. At the later stages of Hoyte's education at the Lodz film school, Kieslowski was a professor there and supervised one of Hoyte's last projects. Hoyte left the Lodz film school early without having received a degree, but with many credentials. He started out with making documentaries. He later met someone who asked him to shoot a very low-budget film in Norway, which he accepted. This led Hoyte to film another film in Norway, which was led by a a producer who was very active in Sweden. The producer offered Hoyte to work on a television show and another feature film, which started off Hoyte's career. He started to become a notable filmmaker in Sweden. His film 'Let the right one in' made him more known internationally.