Carolina Hellsgård

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Carolina Hellsgård (born June 14, 1977 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish director who lives in Berlin.

Life

Hellsgård holds a master's degree in film studies from Stockholm University and studied experimental media design at Berlin University of the Arts , where she graduated from Hartmut Bitomsky's master class in 2007.

Her first feature film, Wanja, about a former bank robber , premiered at the Berlinale - Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2015. The film was nominated for the Best First Feature Award and was shown at international film festivals in Sao Paulo , Montreal , Gothenburg and Austin, among others . It won the award for best debut film at the Biberacher Film Festival and the award for best screenplay at the Valletta Film Festival in Malta in 2015. In summer 2016, Wanja had its German theatrical release through Basis-Film Verleih Berlin. Critics praised Hellsgård's work as “ a quiet, haunting debut ” (Tagesspiegel) Cleverly staged (…) At Hellsgård, people don't just smoke a cigarette, no, everyone does it in their own unique way. (Spiegel online), and that Performance of the leading actress Anne Ratte-Polle as " great " (Berliner Zeitung) with " incredible nuances (...) between anger and cheekiness, vulnerability and will " (taz).

The feminist zombie film Endzeit - Ever After ( ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel , in co-production with Arte ) is her second feature film direction and premiered in the Discovery series at the Toronto Film Festival in 2018 . The film was also shown at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival , the Gerardmer-IFF, Göteborg-IFF and the Carte Blanche Filmseries - Mariette Rissenbeek on German Women Cinematographers at the Museum of Modern Art , New York City .

In 2019, Hellsgård made her third feature film Sunburned , a drama about a girl who wants to help a Senegalese beach vendor while on vacation in Spain. The film was produced by NiKo Film. Co-producers were Johanna Aust, FLICKFILM, The Film Kitchen (Netherlands), Staron Film (Poland) and the television stations WDR , SWR and Arte .

Hellsgård taught as a Dorothea Erxleben scholarship holder at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig and was a scholarship holder in 2017 at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles . In 2015 she won the Berlin work grant and the 2017 artist grant.

Filmography

Director

  • 2015: Vanya
  • 2018: end time
  • 2019: Sunburned

script

  • 2015: Vanya
  • 2019: Sunburned

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ life data in the Swedish film database
  2. ↑ Short bio at Filmportal.de
  3. ↑ Vanya. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Winner of the Biberach Film Festival 2015 |. Retrieved on May 29, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ Vanya. In: Valletta Film Festival. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ WANJA. Retrieved on May 29, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ Alien in your own skin. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Carolin Weidner: Riding stable drama "Wanja": Among vicious mares . In: Spiegel Online . June 8, 2016 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 29, 2019]).
  9. ^ Claus Löser: German cinema at the Berlinale: Caught in the family thicket. February 4, 2015, accessed on May 29, 2019 (German).
  10. ↑ BARBARA WURM: Lots of family and little explicit sexuality . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 7, 2015, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 49 ( taz.de [accessed on May 29, 2019]).
  11. ↑ END TIME. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Carte Blanche for Mariette Rissenbeek at the Museum of Modern Art, New York | filmportal.de. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  13. ^ NiKo film. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  14. ^ Carolina Hellsgård - HBK University of Fine Arts Braunschweig. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Scholarship holders details - VATMH (de). Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  16. ↑ In 2017, women filmmakers from Berlin are being funded by the artist program with work grants and project funds totaling 150,000 euros. April 11, 2017. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Working grant for visual arts 2015 awarded. January 4, 2017. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hellsgård, Carolina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish director
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm