Carolin Schmitz

Carolin Schmitz (* 1967 in Wiesbaden ) is a German director and screenwriter .

life and work

After graduating from high school, Carolin Schmitz trained as a bookseller. From 1997 to 2002 she studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. Her documentary short film Benidorm about the Spanish holiday resort Benidorm received the German Short Film Award in Gold for Documentary Films in 2006. Schmitz has made two stylistically unusual documentaries for the cinema. Portraits of anonymous alcoholics shows the drinking habits of six anonymous alcoholics, their "successful portraits of drinkers in a way that has never been 'seen'" wrote the epd-film. In Beauty , Schmitz sobriety shows people who have had cosmetic surgery.

In 2003, Carolin Schmitz was a founding member of the documentary film women network LaDOC. She lives and works in Cologne.

Filmography (selection)

• 1999: 4 min 3 sec (short film)
• 2000: Pretty good (short film)
• 2001: Surviving Sitting (Documentary)
• 2002: Parallel Universes (documentary)
• 2006: Benidorm (documentary)
• 2010: Portraits of German alcoholics (documentary film)
• 2011: Beauty (documentary)

Awards

• 2000 Second Prize Oberhausen Short Film Festival for 4 minutes 3 seconds
• 2004 sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists
• 2006 German short film award in gold for documentary films for Benidorm 
• 2010 Honorable Mention, Dialogue en perspective, Berlin International Film Festival for portraits of German alcoholics 

Web links

• Carolin Schmitz in the Internet Movie Database  (English)
• Carolin Schmitz at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Short Film Award | Short film award 2006. In: www.deutscher-kurzfilmpreis.de. Retrieved May 14, 2016 . 
2. ^ Portraits of German alcoholics | epd film. In: www.epd-film.de. Retrieved May 14, 2016 . 
3. ↑ LaDOC - The documentary Women's Network Cologne »LaDOC | Documentary Women Network Cologne. (No longer available online.) In: ladoc.de. Archived from the original on April 30, 2016 ; accessed on April 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.