Stanley Staniski is a director & cinematographer in film and television production.
He has experience working on productions in over fifty countries. Among the projects was a film in Mozambique on landmines, and in Thailand a film on trafficking of girls and women. Both programs aired on PBS. Also for PBS and Turner Broadcasting, Stanley worked on the series “Avoiding Armageddon”, traveling to Sri Lanka to film how that country dealt with suicide bombers.

For three years, he worked as cinematographer for the Learning Channel’s “Archeology” series filming in Jordan, Egypt, Israel, and Ghana. Stanley was the Director of Photography for “War Child”, an award-winning feature length documentary on Emmanuel Jal, a former Sudanese child soldier turned rapper. For seven years, he was commissioned by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans to produce video and film projects for the museum. And he has also produced and filmed projects for the Smithsonian Institution, The National Gallery of Art, and the Phillips Collection.

In the recent past, he has worked on projects for the French TV channel Arte, and The Discovery Channel. Stanley was Director of Photography for a documentary about a disputed Angkor era temple, Preah Vihear, on the Thai/Cambodian border, and was Director/Cinematographer for a multi-screen video installation at the Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s Asia Art Museum, featuring the Ruwanwelisya Sri Lanka temple.

Stanley also recently served as Director/Director of Photography for  “Viva El Vedado” an independent feature documentary exploring the architectural history and people of the Havana neighborhood of Vedado. He is currently in production on a series of short films about colonial Cuban architecture.