Oona Menges

The Host (2020) Director of Photography

The Host explores the dark corners of the human psyche through the eyes of Robert and Vera, both of them have secrets that lead to their demise. Maryam Hassouni, Mike Beckingham, Dougie Poynter, Nigel Barber, Suan-Li Ong, Togo Igawa, Daniël Boissevain, Tom Wu, Derek Jacobi, Jeroen Krabbé, Fabian Jansen, Reinout Bussemaker, Dominic Keating, Margo Stilley and Ruby Turner headline the cast of AMS Secrets – the debut crime thriller from Producer Zachary Weckstein. Robert (Mike Beckingham) and Vera (Maryam Hassouni) try to do what’s best for the people they love and those they protect. But as the characters struggle to suppress their inner demons, a course of destruction emanates from hidden secrets that can never be escaped.

L.O.L.A Director of Photography

1940, sisters Thom and Mars have built a machine, L.O.L.A., that can intercept radio and TV broadcasts from the future. This allows them to listen to iconic music before it has been made, place bets knowing what the outcome will be and embrace their inner punk well before the movement came into existence.

Different for Girls (2017) Camera Operator

Different for Girls: a lesbian series that dramatises sex and life “Jacquie Lawrence’s sexy lesbian La Ronde, set in and out of the households of south-west London, has been brought to life by Campbell X’s direction, and no one dies. Is that why it isn’t on TV? As all fans of The L-Word know, lesbian drama is not (just) a genre, it’s life. And web series Different for Girls does not disappoint: it offers complete emotional involvement from the first moments, with an in-your-face vomiting scene as Cam clocks that it might be more than a hangover upsetting her stomach, and potentially upsetting her renewed relationship with Fran….

JOE ALL ALONE (2018) Director of Photography

(TV Mini-series) - Director Of Photography (4 episodes, 2018), Camera Operator (4 episodes, 2018), Cinematographer (2 episodes, 2018) Escape (Apr 30, 2018) Season 1, Episode 4 - Camera Operator, Cinematographer, Director Of Photography No Way Out (Apr 23, 2018) Season 1, Episode 3 - Camera Operator, Cinematographer, Director Of Photography The Girl Next Door (Apr 16, 2018) Season 1, Episode 2 - Camera Operator, Director Of Photography Home Alone (Apr 9, 2018) Season 1, Episode 1 - Camera Operator, Director Of Photography

Elen (2019) Director of Photography

.‘The smile you send out comes back to you’. Elen is a story of friendship and acceptance, from inside the mind of a 10-year-old girl with Epilepsy and a vivid imagination. The film was first broadcast 15th May 2018 on S4C as part of Epilepsy Awareness week, then again as part of the European Broadcast Union Children’s Drama Series 2018.

THE VERITY​ (2016) Director of Photography

When a deceased mother discovers notes on her daughter’s grave that suggests that she might still be alive, she enlists the help of her sister to discover who may be behind them.

Social Suicide (2015) Director of Photography

Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, who starred in the 1968 Romeo and Juliet film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, are reuniting for the first time in 46 years for a modern take on the film, Social Suicide, playing the Capulet parents of the character based on Juliet. Social Suicide is a thriller inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, centering on a police investigation of the murder-suicides of social-media-savvy teenagers. The police investigate the romance and tragedy through videos, vlogs and snapchats, but soon discover nothing is as it seems.