Anna Hepp

Anna Hepp (born March 30, 1977 in Marl ) is a German film director , photographer and artist .

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Anna Hepp was born in Marl in 1977 . From 1996 to 1998 she studied education and philosophy at the University of Essen . In 1998 she trained as a photographer , which she finished in 2001 with a journeyman's certificate .

Since 2001 Hepp has been working as a freelance and employed photographer in the areas of people, reportage and medical photography. In 2003 she began studying audiovisual media at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne , which she finished with honors in 2009 in the field of film and art . Her diploma film One Day and One Eternity received numerous festival prizes, including in China . The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the documentation the rating of particularly valuable .

Hepps second film, the documentary red cabbage and red cabbage, celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale 2011 . In 2012 her filmic short film portrait I would rather not about the former Frankfurt cultural director Hilmar Hoffmann was released . In the same year, Hepp also received a scholarship from the Goethe Institute in Porto Alegre, Brazil, as artist in residence .

Since 2015 she has been working on the realization of an artistic film portrait about Edgar Reitz , which was financially supported by the Filmförderungsanstalt , the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and the Kuratorium Junge deutscher Film . The finished project, the documentary entitled 800 times lonely - A day with filmmaker Edgar Reitz celebrated its world premiere on September 6, 2019 at the Venice International Film Festival as part of the Venezia Classici competition series .

Anna Hepp lives in Cologne .

2009: A day and an eternity (direction, screenplay, camera and editing)
2011: Red cabbage and red cabbage (director, screenplay and camera)
2012: I'd rather not (direction, screenplay and production)
2019: 800 times lonely - a day with the filmmaker Edgar Reitz (direction, screenplay and production)

2009: Jury Award at the Chinese Beijing Student Film Festival in Beijing for: One day and one eternity
2010: BLICKE jury award at the 18th Blick Film Festival of the Ruhr Area for: One day and one eternity
2010: Best international documentary award at the Portuguese film festival FIKE - Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de Évora for: A day and an eternity
2010: Audience award in the German Competition category at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival for: One day and one eternity
2010: Jury Award at the seventh French L'Inconnu Festival in Paris for: A day and an eternity
2010: Jury Award for the best documentary film at the Landshut Short Film Festival for: One day and one eternity
2011: Nomination for the female image designer award at the International Women's Film Festival Dortmund | Cologne for: a day and an eternity
2011: Nomination for the female image designer award at the International Women's Film Festival Dortmund | Cologne for: red cabbage and red cabbage
2013: Nomination for the jury award in the German Competition category at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival for I would rather not
2019: Nomination for the Venezia Classici Award in the category Best Documentary on Cinema at the Venice International Film Festival

personal data
SURNAME	Hepp, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German documentary filmmaker, photographer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 30, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH	Marl , North Rhine-Westphalia