Violetta Coretnic, video producer and director in London

London · Producer and director

Violetta
Coretnic

I go by Violet.

I produce and direct video in London. I started as a director of photography here in 2019, and in May 2022 I co-founded We Stream with Vitalii Vakulchuk.

Most weeks I am producing: planning the shoot, booking and briefing the crew, holding the schedule when the day moves, and staying responsible for what actually gets delivered. On smaller jobs I am also the one holding the camera, cutting the edit and grading it. The credits further down say which role I held on each project, because a producer credit and a camera credit are not the same job.

Violetta Coretnic on location in London, a camera rig in one hand and a phone to her ear
2019First credit, as a director of photography in London
325+Shoots completed, for 99+ clients, since May 2022
51Credited projects listed on this page
15Countries filmed in so far

In front of the camera

Bambie Thug Oleksandr Usyk Richard Branson Paul Pogba Dominic Solanke Priyanka Chopra Nicky Hilton Olia Hercules

At a glance

The short version

Role
Video producer, director and director of photography. Co-founder of We Stream.
Also known as
Violet Coretnic · Violetta Korietnik · Віолетта Корєтнік · Виолетта Коретник
Based
London, United Kingdom. Filming across the UK and Europe.
Founded
We Stream, May 2022, with Vitalii Vakulchuk.
First credit
Director of photography, London, 2019.
Awards
Berlin Music Video Awards, Honourable Mention, Bambie Thug: Love Bites. Official Selection 2024, Bambie Thug: Tsunami.
Press
BBC Newsbeat · Rolling Stone · Backseat Mafia · AOL · Imprinted · Suspilne Media
Documentary
Shooting with Music · Ukrainer: Plast Organisation · Olia Hercules, Borshch a la Great Britain
Shoots
325+ completed, for 99+ clients, since May 2022.

The roles

Six credits, and why that happens

The list of roles is long, and the reason is not that I want all of them. It is that this work does not always split cleanly. On a trade show stand, the person who planned the shoot is the person who has to re-plan it when the schedule moves at eleven in the morning. On a music video with no second unit, the person who designed the look is the person lighting it.

Where a project had a proper crew, I took one role and stayed in it. Where it did not, I took several. Both are in the credits, described honestly. If you are hiring for something specific, the role labels tell you what I have actually done rather than what I would like to be known for.

Producer

Schedule, crew, budget, client. The role I hold most often, and the one We Stream puts on every project.

Creative director

Concept and treatment before the shoot. DATA.BET, AM Insights and Love Bites started this way.

Director of photography

Where I started, in 2019. Framing, lenses and lighting as one decision rather than three.

Camera operator

Still on the camera regularly, mostly on events, fashion shows and smaller brand jobs.

Editor and colourist

The grade is where a film either holds together or does not. I cut and grade a lot of my own work.

Gaffer

Less often now, but on the list: UNII, LEAP, Luxoft, DXC and the Merry Christmas, Baby video.

Selected work

Seven films, and what I did on them

A cross-section rather than a best-of: a music video I directed, a brand film I ran end to end, a press unveiling, a trade show concept and three vertical campaigns. Everything else is in the credits below.

Creative director, DoP, producer, editor, colourist

Bambie Thug: Love Bites

The one where I held every creative role. Honourable Mention at the Berlin Music Video Awards.

Creative director, producer, camera operator, colourist

AM Insights: brand video

Founder interview, testimonials and office b-roll in one day. Premiered at their anniversary event.

Producer, camera operator

Usyk and Branson at Trafalgar Square

A public unveiling with press waiting. Photos out in 20 minutes, video the same day.

Creative director, producer, colourist

DATA.BET at ICE Barcelona 2026

Concept developed with the client before the show, then filmed on a working stand.

Camera operator, editor, colourist

Heineken x Margot Lee

Filmed in one morning, finished the same night. Co-posted by Heineken.

Producer

Kodansha: Blue Lock

A publisher's anime property, made for a London audience.

Producer

Fury Energy x Chelsea FC

Training ground, match day and a fan event at Stamford Bridge.

Music

The Bambie Thug series

I have worked with Bambie Thug since 2021, starting with Ritual, where we built a fight scene in a crowded underground train. Six released videos followed, plus one that stayed unreleased: Merry Christmas Baby, Egregore, Tsunami, Love Bites, and the Live at BBC Maida Vale Studios session filmed on Christmas Eve 2022. The series ran through the period that ended with Bambie Thug representing Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest, where they finished sixth.

Bambie Thug singing with eyes closed at the microphone, filmed in black and white at BBC Maida Vale Studios

Love Bites is the one where I held every creative role: creative director, director of photography, producer, editor and colourist. It took about a month. Several evenings went on the concept, the timeline, the colour palette and who was needed, then on storyboards, before anyone picked up a camera.

The shoot itself had almost no budget and a location rented for a single day that had to be dark, so we could not start until six in the evening. We finished at seven the next morning. That is the part of the job people do not see, and it is why the look gets decided before anyone turns up.

The Maida Vale session was the opposite kind of job. Two songs, one studio, no time to set up, one camera and one operator. Filmed and edited by me, delivered three days later. A live session is one take: whatever the camera missed is gone.

Berlin Music Video AwardsHonourable Mention, Bambie Thug: Love Bites, 2024.
Berlin Music Video AwardsOfficial Selection, Bambie Thug: Tsunami, 2024.

Day to day

Most of it is events and brands

The music videos are the work people ask about. The work that fills the calendar is conferences, trade shows, launches and brand films, in London and across Europe: ICE Barcelona, IGB Live, SiGMA in Rome, the British Motor Show, a public unveiling in Trafalgar Square with Oleksandr Usyk and Richard Branson.

On those jobs the job is rarely the filming. It is knowing what has to be delivered before the show ends, and building the day backwards from that. On the iGaming shows I often cut on site, which is why the laptop appears in as many photos as the camera.

Event work at We Stream  ·  Event photography

Violet Coretnic editing on a laptop beside a camera rig at a trade show stand

Credits

Everything, with the role named

51 projects, newest first. Filter by what I did, by the kind of work, or both. Every title links to the film.

Role
Field

51 projects

CSL, Google vs Amazon

Producer, photographer, camera operator

2026 · Sport

MAZE launch

Producer, colourist

2026 · Brand and corporate

Alter AI conference

Camera operator, editor, colourist

2026 · Events and iGaming

AM Insights, brand video

Creative director, producer, camera operator, colourist

2025 · Brand and corporate

Breakout Breakup

Editor, colourist

2025 · Fashion and advertising

Heineken x Margot Lee

Camera operator, editor, colourist

2025 · Fashion and advertising

Max Factor campaign

Camera operator, editor, colourist

2025 · Fashion and advertising

First Casino

Camera operator

2026 · Events and iGaming

Bambie Thug: Love Bites

Creative director, DoP, producer, editor, colourist

2024 · Music

AMI Paris

Camera operator, editor, colourist

2024 · Fashion and advertising

DXC Technology

Camera operator, gaffer, editor

2024 · Brand and corporate

Hoyeon Jung

Producer

2024 · Fashion and advertising

Lancome

Producer

2024 · Fashion and advertising

Luxoft

Gaffer, camera operator, editor, colourist

2024 · Brand and corporate

Tommy Hilfiger

Local producer

2024 · Fashion and advertising

Bambie Thug: Tsunami

Camera operator, editor, colourist

2024 · Music

Olia Hercules

Camera operator

2024 · Brand and corporate

Press

Where the work has been written about

Every item links to the piece itself.

BBC Newsbeat

Quoted by name on why artists and their labels are moving into livestreamed concerts and concert films: revenue, visibility and the need to create a buzz. The piece also runs a We Stream image. Syndicated by AOL.

Suspilne Media

Ukraine's public broadcaster, March 2024, on the Love Bites video and the Irish national selection that took Bambie Thug to Eurovision, with my account of a one-night shoot that ran to seven in the morning.

Backseat Mafia

Coverage of the Cathexis EP and the London Halloween show, alongside the Love Bites video.

Rolling Stone UK

On the Egregore video: The Powerpuff Girls' HIM reworked as a gender-bending, high camp performance.

Berlin Music Video Awards

Bambie Thug: Tsunami in the 2024 nominees. Love Bites took an Honourable Mention.

AOL

The Newsbeat piece on concert films and livestreamed gigs, carried in full.

Working together

Hiring me means hiring We Stream

I do not take freelance bookings separately from the company. If you want me on a project, it is booked through We Stream, which also means you get a crew, insured operators, a second camera when the brief needs one, and someone other than me to call if I am on another set.

Send the date, the location, what the film has to do and when you need it. You get a quote within 24 hours, and if we are not right for the timeline or the budget, I will say so rather than take the booking.

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Questions

Frequently asked

Is Violet Coretnic the same person as Violetta Coretnic?

Yes. My full name is Violetta Coretnic, and I go by Violet in London. Credits, company filings and awards use Violetta; most people who work with me say Violet. Both names refer to the same producer and director, and the same person who co-founded We Stream.

Who is Violetta Coretnic?

A London-based video producer and director, and co-founder of We Stream, the production company I started in May 2022 with Vitalii Vakulchuk. I began working as a director of photography in London in 2019. I produce commercial, brand and event work, and I direct music videos.

What did Violetta Coretnic direct for Bambie Thug?

I worked on the Bambie Thug music video series, including Ritual, Merry Christmas Baby, Tsunami, Egregore, Love Bites and the Live at BBC Maida Vale Studios session filmed on Christmas Eve 2022, plus one video that remains unreleased. On Love Bites I was creative director, director of photography, producer, editor and colourist.

What commercial work has Violetta Coretnic produced?

Brand and commercial work for Heineken, Max Factor, Lancome, Tommy Hilfiger, AMI Paris, Sunday Riley, Kodansha and Brut, alongside corporate films for DXC, Luxoft, Cytec and AM Insights. On the sports side, campaigns featuring Paul Pogba, Oleksandr Usyk and the Fury Energy partnership with Chelsea FC.

Where has Violetta Coretnic been featured in the press?

BBC Newsbeat quoted me on why artists hold attention online and the role of character in brand content. Rolling Stone covered the Bambie Thug Eurovision campaign, and the music video work has also appeared in Backseat Mafia, Imprinted and Suspilne Media.

What does Violetta Coretnic do on a shoot?

Most often I produce: planning the shoot, booking and briefing the crew, holding the schedule on the day and staying responsible for what gets delivered. On smaller jobs I also operate a camera, cut the edit and grade it. On a few projects I have been the gaffer.

How do you hire Violetta Coretnic?

Through We Stream. Send the date, the location, what the film has to do and when you need it, and you get a quote within 24 hours. Rates are published on the We Stream pricing pages, and a producer is included on every project.

Does Violetta Coretnic still operate a camera?

Yes, though less than in 2022. The credits below say which role I held on each project, because a producer credit and a camera credit are not the same job and it is misleading to blur them.

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