---
name: "Shabier Kirchner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/shabier-kirchner"
fi1m_id: "shabier-kirchner"
imdb_id: "nm3907327"
tmdb_id: 2027165
wikidata_id: "Q89672222"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "1 January 1987"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-03T00:48:07.266235+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Shabier Kirchner

## Identity

Shabier Kirchner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/shabier-kirchner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** shabier-kirchner
- **IMDb ID:** nm3907327
- **TMDB ID:** 2027165
- **Wikidata ID:** Q89672222
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabier_Kirchner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89672222, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3907327/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2027165

Cinematographer. Born 1 January 1987 in Antigua.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 1 January 1987, Antigua
- **Active:** 2019–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Celine Song](https://film.one/person/celine-song.md), [Christine Vachon](https://film.one/person/christine-vachon.md), [David Hinojosa](https://film.one/person/david-hinojosa.md), [Pamela Koffler](https://film.one/person/pamela-koffler.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 81 (1), 2020s 79 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 79 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Romance 3
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $136m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabier_Kirchner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89672222, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3907327/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2027165

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Small Axe*](https://film.one/tv/small-axe.md) (88), [*Only You*](https://film.one/film/only-you.md) (81)
- **HBO Max:** [*Materialists*](https://film.one/film/materialists.md) (63)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Shabier Kirchner is an Antiguan cinematographer and director. He grew up in Antigua and has worked on feature films and television series since the mid-2010s.

His credits include *Skate Kitchen* (2018), *Only You* (2019), the anthology series *Small Axe* (2020), *Past Lives* (2023) and *Materialists* (2025). He won a BAFTA Television Craft Award for photography and lighting on *Small Axe*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Materialists* (2025), Fi1m 63, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/materialists.md)
- *Past Lives* (2023), Fi1m 85, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/past-lives.md)
- *Small Axe* (2020), Fi1m 88, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/tv/small-axe.md)
- *Only You* (2019), Fi1m 81, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/only-you.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Materialists* (2025), Director of Photography — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/materialists.md)
- *Past Lives* (2023), Director of Photography — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/past-lives.md)
- *Lizard* (2021), Director of Photography
- *Small Axe* (2020), series, Director of Photography — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/small-axe.md)
- *Bull* (2020), Director of Photography
- *Only You* (2019), Director of Photography — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/only-you.md)
- *Leaving Hope* (2019), Director of Photography
- *Dadli* (2018), Producer, Director, Director of Photography
- *Skate Kitchen* (2018), Director of Photography
- *Sollers Point* (2017), Director of Photography
- *Growing Up Smith* (2017), Third Assistant Camera
- *That One Day* (2016), Director of Photography
- *We've Forgotten More Than We Ever Knew* (2016), Director of Photography
- *Throuple* (2015), Director of Photography
- *Augustown*, Director
- *Enemies*, Director of Photography

## Gallery

- ![Photos of actors & film crew working on the movie "Sollers Point" - parts of which were filmed in Dundalk, Md.. The photographs feature people in the crew w (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/503/gallery-c8c66d0f65d4.jpg) Photos of actors & film crew working on the movie "Sollers Point" - parts of which were filmed in Dundalk, Md.. The photographs feature people in the crew w (2016) — David Robert Crews from Baltimore, Md., USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Sollers_Point_Movie_Set_DSCN5684_%2829038724216%29.jpg/1280px-Sollers_Point_Movie_Set_DSCN5684_%2829038724216%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Photos of actors & film crew working on the movie "Sollers Point" - parts of which were filmed in Dundalk, Md.. The photographs feature people in the crew w (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/503/gallery-861263341edc.jpg) Photos of actors & film crew working on the movie "Sollers Point" - parts of which were filmed in Dundalk, Md.. The photographs feature people in the crew w (2016) — David Robert Crews from Baltimore, Md., USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Sollers_Point_Movie_Set_DSCN5685_%2828785285710%29.jpg/1280px-Sollers_Point_Movie_Set_DSCN5685_%2828785285710%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Shabier Kirchner](https://film.one/media/person/503/gallery-40f5f06f9d29.jpg) Shabier Kirchner — David Robert Crews from Baltimore, Md., USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Sollers_Point_Movie_Set_DSCN5711_%2828995197751%29.jpg/1280px-Sollers_Point_Movie_Set_DSCN5711_%2828995197751%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Photos of actors & film crew working on the movie "Sollers Point" - parts of which were filmed in Dundalk, Md.. The photographs feature people in the crew w (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/503/gallery-0fb8c47d7792.jpg) Photos of actors & film crew working on the movie "Sollers Point" - parts of which were filmed in Dundalk, Md.. The photographs feature people in the crew w (2016) — David Robert Crews from Baltimore, Md., USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Sollers_Point_Movie_Set_DSCN5969_%2829071513795%29.jpg/1280px-Sollers_Point_Movie_Set_DSCN5969_%2829071513795%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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