Aaron Ohlmann is an American filmmaker best known for his work for Netflix and Vice, and producing the feature documentaries Viva Cuba Libre and Here Is Always Somewhere Else.
[3] Ohlmann has produced and directed television for VICE, including episodes of Black Market with Michael K. Williams shot in Cameroon, Japan and China.
[6] In Northern Iraq he directed the 360° film The Call Center featuring the recordings of refugees displaced by the war with ISIS.
The making of this film was profiled by GOOD Magazine in the article In the Line of Fire[7] and in an interview with Ohlmann by Katie Wudel.
[11] He has collaborated extensively with writer/director Rene Daalder, with whom he produced, edited and shot Here Is Always Somewhere Else,[12] a documentary about artist Bas Jan Ader.