Almut Ghetto
Almut Getto (born April 3, 1964 in Kandel ) is a German film director and screenwriter
Life
Almut Getto studied political and communication science at the LMU in Munich . After completing her master's degree , she worked as a journalist and finally studied in the post-graduate course in film at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne . Her graduation film Spots & Stripes , which was made in Sheffield , England , received several awards at national and international festivals. Almut Getto has been working as a writer and director since 1998.
In 2001 she was awarded the sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists in the film category. For her first full-length feature film, Fickende Fisch , she won the Director's Prize at the Max Ophüls Film Festival in 2002, and was awarded the German Film Critics' Prize in 2002 and the German Film Prize for Best Screenplay in 2003.
In 2005 Getto directed the children's film Stella and the Star of the Orient , which won awards at various international children's film festivals and was released in German cinemas at the end of 2008; for unknown reasons, however, Getto withdrew her name from the finished film and operated under the pseudonym "Erna Schmidt".
Her second "official" feature film, " Close to You" , received u. a. In 2009 he won the audience award at the Max Ophüls Film Festival and was awarded the DEFA Foundation Prize and the Cinestar Prize at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Film Festival .
Together with Pierre-Henry Salfati, Getto wrote the screenplay for the film The Last Mentsch , which Salfati directed.
In 2018 Almut Getto sat next to actor Marc Rissmann on the jury of the Federal Festival of Young Film .
Filmography
- 1996: I'm not into the sun anyway (documentary); Script, director
- 1998: Spots & Stripes (short film); Script, director
- 2002: Fucking Fish ; Script, director
- 2008: Stella and the Star of the Orient ; Director (as "Erna Schmidt")
- 2009: very close to you ; Script, director
- 2013: The last Mentsch ; script
Web links
- Almut Getto in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Almut Getto at filmportal.de
- Almut Getto in the online director's guide
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Dieter Seidel: You don't die under water. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 39, February 15, 2002
- ^ Winner of the German Film Critics' Prize
- ^ [1] Hanns-Georg Rodek: When directors are ashamed of "their" films In: Die Welt, October 5, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ghetto, Almut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Candelabra |