Arian Sanati

Arian Sanati

Stories, told in Motion Bewegung حرکت

Motion designer and video editor specializing in documentary storytelling, animated explainers, and visual journalism. Based in Berlin, working internationally in English, German, and Persian.

Worked withFernSimplicissimusFactnamehIran InternationalPaskoochehBeePassLOOKSfilmARTE

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    I'm Arian. I studied film, so I still think in shots and cuts, even when the job is just subtitles.

    Funny enough, subtitles are where it all started. I began subtitling films at 16, and that was my way into film and media.

    For about four years I was a motion designer, video editor and writer at ASL19. I helped shape the branding, online presence and content of Paskoocheh, BeePass and Factnameh, three ASL19 platforms working on digital safety and against misinformation online.

    That meant turning complicated subjects like fake news and internet security into videos people actually watch, making fact-check shorts for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and editing more than 100 episodes of Factnameh's weekly podcast. Some of that work also aired on Iran International TV.

    On the documentary side, I worked on the edit, sound design and colour grading of Factnameh's investigative documentaries, and I was assistant producer on Afghanistan: The Wounded Land, a four-part series for ARTE that was nominated for the Grimme Prize.

    These days I'm video editor and motion designer for Fern and Simplicissimus, two of the best documentary channels on YouTube. On The World's Deadliest Company I edited the whole film from the raw footage and built its 2D and 3D typography, animated maps and data visualizations. It got about a million views on day one and went to number one on YouTube Trends in Germany.

    I work from Berlin, in English, German and Persian.

    Tools
    • After Effects, Premiere Pro, Audition
    • Illustrator, Photoshop
    • Blender, Cinema 4D, Red Giant
    • Plus Topaz, ElevenLabs, Midjourney, Veo and a few tools I built myself
    Clients
    • Fern
    • Simplicissimus
    • Factnameh
    • Iran International
    • Paskoocheh
    • BeePass
    • LOOKSfilm
    • ARTE
    Studied
    • Film and Media Design, B.A.
    • Merz Akademie
    Languages
    • English, Deutsch, فارسی

    Let's make something move.

    A campaign, a documentary that needs a German version, or a brand that wants to talk to Iranians without sounding translated. Send me a line.

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