Anca Miruna Lăzărescu

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Anca Miruna Lăzărescu with Rareș Mihnea Hanțiu (2nd Unit Director Hackerville) at the 2019 Grimme Prize

Anca Miruna Lăzărescu (* 1979 in Timișoara ) is a German - Romanian director and screenwriter .

Career

Lăzărescu studied documentary film at the University of Television and Film Munich, at the University of California, Los Angeles , and took part in scriptwriting workshops. She then made documentaries, short films and commercials.

With the documentary The Secret of Deva (2007) she won several awards, including a. the award for the best young German film at the Sehsuchten International Student Film Festival in Potsdam. In 2011 she graduated from the HFF with a diploma. Her graduation film Silent River has been shown at over 300 festivals (including the Berlinale ) and has received 82 international prizes.

Lăzărescu's feature-length debut The Journey with Father , a road movie, premiered at the Munich Film Festival in 2016. There the film received the special award of the New German Cinema Award ; In addition, he was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize for the best newcomer production in 2017. Lăzărescu was nominated for the German Director Prize Metropolis for the best young director. The Süddeutsche Zeitung judged the film that Lăzărescu was telling "with a lot of wit and warmth of the heart a very sad story that is very close to her own."

Her next feature film, Glück is something for wimps, opened the Hof International Film Festival 2018 and was nominated for the German Film Prize 2019 .

In 2018, Lăzărescu directed the miniseries Hackerville for HBO and TNT , which was awarded the Grimme Prize in 2019 . Der Spiegel wrote in a review that Hackerville shows “an example of what modern European series television can look like in a booming television market”, while the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described the series as “very coherent”: “The interplay in front of the camera seems easy, the characters appear coherent in itself. "

In 2019, Lăzărescu directed the series We Are the Wave . The Netflix original series, which is produced by Christian Becker and Dennis Gansel , started worldwide on November 1, 2019. For this, Lăzărescu was again nominated for a Grimme Prize .

Between working on her films, she worked as a local journalist. Today, in addition to her activities as a director and screenwriter, she also teaches as a lecturer at various German-speaking film schools, including the University of Television and Film Munich . In 2019 she became the jury president of the International Festival of the Munich Film Schools , the junior edition of the Munich Film Festival.

At the beginning of 2020, Lăzărescu was voted one of the eight most promising German filmmakers by the industry magazine Screen International .

Life

Anca Miruna Lăzărescu came to Germany with her family in 1990 and grew up in Bad Pyrmont . Today she lives with her husband and children near Munich.

Filmography

  • 2004: D! Ve (documentary film)
  • 2005: Bucuresti-Berlin (Short Film)
  • 2005: Stranger Children (TV Documentary)
    (One episode: Salma in Two Worlds )
  • 2007: The Secret of Deva (documentary)
  • 2009: Breathless: Dominance of the Moment
    (One of four short films: "Once upon a time")
  • 2009: Once Upon a Time (documentary short film)
  • 2011: Silent River (short film)
  • 2016: The trip with father
  • 2018: happiness is for wimps
  • 2018: Hackerville (TV series)
    Two episodes: Divide et Impera and The talented Mr. Cipi
  • 2019: We are the wave (series)
    Episode 1: Do you know that feeling? , Episode 2: What's wrong with you? and episode 5: The 99%

Awards (selection)

Web links

Commons : Anca Miruna Lazarescu  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Hermann Weiß: This director could be the hope of German cinema. In: Welt Online. Axel Springer SE, October 22, 2018, accessed on April 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Longing for "Diorama". In: mediabiz. mediabiz GmbH, April 30, 2007, accessed on April 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The Jury 2019 - Filmschoolfest Munich. Retrieved August 29, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Apele tac - IMDb. Retrieved August 29, 2020 .
  6. ↑ The Jury 2019 - Filmschoolfest Munich. Retrieved August 29, 2020 .
  7. ↑ The journey with father - IMDb. Retrieved August 29, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Metropolis - German Director Award 2017. October 31, 2018, accessed on August 29, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: The irony of history. Retrieved August 29, 2020 .
  10. ↑ a b Hans-Ulrich Kilian: Pyrmont director shoots for Netflix. In: dewezet.de. Deister and Weser newspaper, November 19, 2018, accessed on April 15, 2019 .
  11. ↑ 2019 • German Film Award. Retrieved on August 29, 2020 (German).
  12. ↑ "What's going on?" with Anca Miruna Lăzărescu. In: epd film Online. Joint project of Evangelical Journalism (GEP), non-profit GmbH, December 19, 2018, accessed on April 15, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Hackerville (UFA Fiction / mobra films for HBO Europe / TNT series). In: Grimme Prize Online. Grimme Institute, accessed April 15, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Christian Buß, DER SPIEGEL: "Hackerville": cyberthriller series from HBO Europe and TNT series - DER SPIEGEL - culture. Retrieved August 29, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Anna-Lena Niemann: Hackers are only human. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. November 8, 2018, accessed August 29, 2020 .
  16. ↑ The next German Netflix series: Start, actors and more on We are the wave. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  17. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Grimme Prize: "Skylines", "Der Pass" and Joko and Klaas are nominated - DER SPIEGEL - Culture. Retrieved August 29, 2020 .
  18. ^ Jury presidents - Filmschoolfest Munich. Retrieved August 29, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Liza Foreman 2020-02-24T13: 44: 00 + 00: 00: Eight emerging German filmmakers to watch in 2020. Retrieved on August 29, 2020 (English).
  20. ↑ Daniela Gorgs: Direction is everything. In: SZ Online. Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien GmbH / Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, March 26, 2011, accessed on April 15, 2019 .
  21. ↑ a b Anca Miruna Lazarescu. In: imdb.com. IMDb.com, Inc., accessed October 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lăzărescu, Anca Miruna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Romanian director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Timisoara