ChristinaKarliczek

08/28/2026

New films streaming! AMONG SHARKS - UNTER HAIEN

After "Among Orcas" and "Among Humpback Whales," I got to dive with sharks - no cage.
AMONG SHARKS updates the stories we've been told about these predators, asking why they're still perceived as something to fear - a reputation that's actively working against efforts to save them from harmful human activities.

🎥Observing behaviour of hammerhead sharks, filming reef sharks and tiger sharks. Along the way, I met the people studying sharks, spending their life protecting them, and those who've been hurt in encounters with them.

My deep gratitude to all the human contributors who made this documentary possible: who gave us a nuanced, close-up look at some iconic shark species, made time for filming rare and mysterious behaviours, and generously shared their personal insights and experiences with us as a camera team.�
🌊🌊Kenji Nonaka - Cristina Zenato - Florian Graner - Debra Canabal - Neil Hammerschlag 🌊🌊

💙Massive thanks to director Anna Maria Behrends .mb.82 for her warm guidance, creative spirit and patience all along.

Congratulations all team, whether you stayed dry or got salty or helped to push this project to be found in a wide ocean of media!

Fins up to the commissioners NDR, producer Jörn Röver for making this project possible & streaming now on .

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Production management: Tim Carlberg (NDR), Florian Rehm (Doclights)

Presented by: Christina Karliczek Skoglund

Cinematographers: Florian Graner, Kewin Lorenzen, Luana Knipfer, Christina Karliczek Skoglund, Tiffany Kidder Winn

Sound: Vivien Vogel, Hannes Hirsch

Crew: Erik Bergmeyer (Captain Hawaii), David Cunningham (Captain Bahamas), Tiffany Kidder Winn & Todd Winn (Safety divers)

Editor: Petra Tschumpel �
PR & Distribution: Tina Muffert, Nina Gaglio, Sarah Lanz, Jannik Mross, Nora Bruhns

Music: Audiokraft

Soundmix: Sven-Michael Bluhm

Colour grading: Daniel Probst

Graphics: Eike Wichmann

08/27/2026

08/26/2026

Sharks! Drop-jaw close-up perspectives, social behaviours with ; a shark-person whose incredible actions, whole-hearted advocacy and achievements leave me truly starstruck and in deep respect of both her life-long work for sharks and knowledge (& she’s a diamond of an exploration-cave-diver too!!!)
⚡New 2-part doc now streaming on ”Unter Haien”

💙Having had an opportunity to film and witness her with sharks was absolutely mind-blowing both in the shark behaviours unfolding in front of our cameras but also to be trusted to meet these sharks together in the Bahamas.
🦈🎥 Thank you for your great underwater filming work and joining our team with director .m.b.82, topside camera , sound Vivien Vogel on location - together with ⚓
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08/26/2026

Sharks! Drop-jaw close-up perspectives, social behaviours with Cristina Zenato a shark-person whose incredible actions, whole-hearted advocacy and achievements leave me truly starstruck and in deep respect of both her life-long work for sharks and knowledge (& she's a diamond of an exploration-cave-diver too!!!)
⚡New 2-part doc now streaming on Mediathek "Unter Haien"

💙Having had an opportunity to film and witness her with sharks was absolutely mind-blowing: in the shark behaviours unfolding in front of our cameras but also to be trusted to meet these sharks together in the Bahamas.
🦈🎥 Thank you for your great underwater filming work and joining our team with director .m.b.82, topside camera , sound Vivien Vogel on location - together with ⚓
Produced by for
Link in bio!

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08/23/2026

After-dive or before-dive smile? It’s been incredible moments of filming underwater around the Hawaiian Islands meeting illusive ocean-wanderers that I’ll never forget! 🦈
As I’m often in cold or icy waters, it’s been a blast to spent long hours with my camera and rebreather dive kit underwater in clear blue warm water, teaming up with a fantastic local crew.
So excited that our new 2-part doc will be out streaming in a few days - stay tuned!

📷Thank you Luana Knipfer to capture this moment, it’s been awesome working with you as the topside cinematographer for Doclights GmbH

Gates Underwater Products shot on RED Digital Cinema
Wildlife Camerawomen Community rEvo Rebreathers

05/13/2026

Diving with sharks?!
To have brought sharks of Scandinavia’s cool waters to our audiences at The Maritime Museum & Aquarium Gothenburg in Sweden has been both an incredible honour to work with the team and a tremendous pleasure. Yet what we have hauled up about these elusive predators in Swedish waters are nothing short of hidden gems! Rare glimpses into a world that remains, to this day, largely uncharted.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

So thrilled to see our exhibition SHARKS, CAMERA, ACTION now open to visitors of all ages - The Maritime Museum & Aquarium Gothenburg, Sweden.

🌊Join my journey as an underwater cinematographer & filmmaker among sharks - from the Swedish Westcoast of Bohuslän to the deep waters of Greenland.

From baby sharks to the mysterious Greenland shark, our films and photographs take you close to the sharks and even behind-the-scenes.

⚓Sharks have existed for about 450 million years, long before dinosaurs. Over time, they have evolved into more than 500 known species, with many different shapes, sizes, and ways of living.

Photo of the Greenland shark & yes, it’s me Christina: Copyright Uli Kunz/Black Coral Film/Doclights

05/12/2026

🐋WHAT A SPLASH of a festival!
Cinema-screen premiere for our Humpback whale film
with the most wonderful audience, totally sold out. I
enjoyed especially the thoughtful Q&A by Phillip
Kamke (NDR journalist) that touched on a lot of angles.

💫 So delightful to see our awesome big whales on a
big screen! Cheers to all team "Unter Buckelwalen"
(Among Humpback Whales)!

Cold-water swimming & Rune Sauna Kiel relax time with a fun
bunch of global marine filmmakers, brunch-mingle
hosted by film fund Hamburg
Schleswig-Holstein, dancing the Ocean Parade
through the city of Kiel, inspiring Talks & film
screenings just to name some of my favs!
But then it took a total turn, reclaiming the streets for
ocean cinema, walk & watch films on walls, sails,
buildings and a wonderful DJ-cargo bike for a fun night
out!

Thank you so much, riesiges DANKESCHÖN CINEMARE Int'l Ocean Film Festival Kiel
and all the amazing volunteers in Kiel, Germany💙⚡All photos © by Pat Scheidemann/Cinemare

04/19/2026

There are moments in life that remind you exactly how small you are…and how lucky. Holding my breath, holding my camera, trying to hold it together while being witness of a young whale exploring the world.

🎥 The film Among Humpback whales / Unter Buckelwalen is streaming on >link in bio

🐋Filmed under NMFS-Permit 26725 by

directed by .m.b.82
Produced by

📷1: Florian Graner 📷2: Christina Karliczek Skoglund

04/12/2026

This week brought me closer to space than I’ll probably ever get. Specialist training on groundbreaking immersive video technology in the NASA neutral buoyancy lab pool was surreal - a vision of expanding from 2D cinematography that I’ve had for years finally realized in my career. Filming underwater with this new Gates underwater housing tech alongside astronauts in training, in one of the world’s largest indoor pools, felt absolutely mind blowing. The whole experience was humbling and fascinating in ways I can’t quite put into words. 
I certainly made a mental nod to the early-career-me tracing film history and the silent-movie “Le Voyage dans la Lune / A Trip To the Moon” by George Méliès in 1902. 
Huge thanks to the team of Apple & Gates for welcoming me into this new and exciting journey, my wonderful and kind fellow underwater camera legends - and to NASA for having us while they were pushing forward the monumental Artemis II mission!! Grateful doesn’t begin to cover it, but it’s also incredibly grounding to have had that hands-on tech training and insights.

Images by: .underwater

04/10/2026

Did you know that humpback whales use tools?
🐋A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the UC Davis documented, for the first time, humpback whales producing large bubble rings, like a human smoker blowing smoke rings, during friendly interactions with humans. This previously little studied behavior may represent play or communication. Humpback whales are already known for using bubbles to corral prey and creating bubble trails and bursts when competing to es**rt a female whale. These new observations show humpback whales producing bubble rings during friendly encounters with humans. This finding contributes to the WhaleSETI team’s broader goal of studying non-human intelligence to aid in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

I talked to co-author Josie Hubbard for our new film AMONG HUMPBACK WHALES (UNTER BUCKELWALEN-Auf den Spuren ihrer Sprache)
Streaming

🎥clip filmed by: Roy Dalrymple Moreno, Molly Gaughan,

Directed by .m.b.82
Produced by