Academy of Austrian Film

Members of the Academy (from left to right): Marlene Ropac , Ursula Strauss , Barbara Albert , Karl Markovics , Josef Aichholzer , Karina Ressler , Harald Sicheritz (2011)

Members of the academy and the team (from left to right): Marlene Ropac , Veronika Hlawatsch , Alexander Glehr , Birgit Hutter , Ursula Wolschlager , Martin Gschlacht , Eva Spreitzhofer , Gerhard Ertl , Harald Sicherheitsitz , Barbara Lindner and Josef Aichholzer (2017)

The Academy of Austrian Films , based in Vienna , was founded on March 11, 2009 by Austrian filmmakers.

The Academy set itself the goal of establishing an Austrian Film Prize , which was first awarded on January 29, 2011, as well as a platform for filmmakers that enables them to communicate and implement their concerns and to maintain an exchange with filmmakers and partner institutions abroad .

Admission requirement

Any filmmaker who has worked on two full-length feature films or documentaries - which were released in Austria with at least three feature films or one documentary film and meet the requirements for being awarded an Austrian certificate of origin - can become a member and must be mentioned in the previous or credits for the respective films.

society

Barbara Albert and Karl Markovics ( Austrian Film Prize 2011 )

Ursula Strauss and Stefan Ruzowitzky ( Austrian Film Award 2017 )

Barbara Albert and Karl Markovics have held the presidency of the academy since it was founded . Ursula Strauss and Stefan Ruzowitzky followed them in October 2013 .

Presidency

• Ursula Strauss (President)
• Stefan Ruzowitzky (President)

Board

• Josef Aichholzer (chairman)
• Katharina Wöppermann (1st deputy chairman)
• Mercedes Echerer (2nd deputy chairman)
• Alexander Glehr (Treasurer)
• Martin Gschlacht (deputy cashier)
• Gerhard Ertl
• Veronika Hlawatsch
• Birgit Hutter
• Harald Sicherheitsitz
• Erwin Steinhauer
• Eva Spreitzhofer
• Ursula Wolschlager

team

• Marlene Ropac , management
• Alexandra Valent, Project Management Austrian Film Prize
• Corinna Gollmayr, Management Assistant
• William Knaack, Assistant to the Management / Projects
• Antonia Prochaska, project management
• Oliver Stangl, media support
• Michael Zeindlinger, Assistant Project Management Austrian Film Prize

Members

In January 2018 the academy had 505 members.

Founding members

Josef Aichholzer (producer) Barbara Albert (director) Martin Ambrosch (screenwriter) Kurt Brazda (director, cameraman) Michou Friesz (actress) Barbara Gräftner (director) Helmut Grasser (producer) Martin Gschlacht (cameraman) Rupert Henning (director) Michael Hudecek (Editor) Birgit Hutter (costume designer) Christoph Kanter (production designer) Fritz Karl (actor) Walter Kindler (cameraman) Maria Anna Kollmann Gabriele Kranzelbinder (producer) Danny Krausz (producer) Michael Kreihsl (director) Erich Lackner (producer)

Nikolaus Leytner (director) Karl Markovics (screenwriter) Kurt Mayer (producer) Wolfgang Murnberger (director) Britta Nahler (Editor) Agnes Pluch (screenwriter) Dieter Pochlatko (producer) Nina Proll (actress) Florian Reichmann (production designer) Karina Ressler (editor) Stefan Ruzowitzky (director) Harald Sicherheitsitz (director) Götz Spielmann (director) Eva Spreitzhofer (screenwriter) Erwin Steinhauer (actor) Ursula Strauss (actress) Erwin Wagenhofer (director) Monika Willi (editor) Robert Winkler (producer)

Supporting members

• SATEL FILM GmbH
• VDFS Gen.mbH - collecting society for filmmakers
• Vienna Film Commission
• Flimmit GmbH

Other full and extraordinary members → List of members of the Academy of Austrian Films

Web links

• Official website of the Academy of Austrian Films

Individual evidence

1. ^ Academy of Austrian Films: Press release The New Austrian Film Prize (PDF; 102 kB), July 2010
2. ↑ Der Standard : Ö-Filmpreis moves to Grafenegg , October 22nd, 2013 under new presidency
3. ^ Academy of Austrian Films: Board of Directors
4. ^ Academy of Austrian Films: Membership