Irja von Bernstorff
Irja von Bernstorff (born Irja Martens , * 1983 in Munich ) is a German director, writer and producer of documentary films.
life and work
After studying theater and media studies in Bayreuth and Paris, she worked for fechnerMEDIA from 2006 to 2016. In addition to various documentary film projects for German television and international co-productions etc. a. for NHK in Japan, in 2013 she directed the ARTE theme evening Future Finds City (production: fechnerMEDIA, editors: Natalie Weber and Wolfgang Wirtz-Nentwig SR / ARD) . This included a 45-minute report "City of the Future - Future of the City" about the future development of cities and a 52-minute documentary film "How is the city full?" about the food markets of the future, awarded the German Environment and Sustainability Prize 2014. The accompanying interactive online portal on ARTE Future entitled Urban Gardening - Green Your City was awarded the German Business Film Prize 2014. She has been working and living together since 2013 her husband and daughter in Bhutan, where von Bernstorff realized a 25-part fictional TV series about the threat of rural exodus in Bhutan for the only Bhutanese television broadcaster BBS. Her first multi-award-winning documentary film "The Farmer and I" emerged from the shooting.
Filmography
- 2011: Nuclear waste in my garden (director, editor ZDF Umwelt )
- 2011: Visionen 2050, short film (script and direction, Council for Sustainable Development )
- 2012: The World after Fukushima (Director, NHK Tokyo)
- 2013: Ecopolis: City with a future, animated film (script and direction, Heinrich Böll Foundation )
- 2013: How does the city get full? (Director, editorial office Saarländischer Rundfunk / arte )
- 2013: City of the Future, Future of the City (Director, Editor Saarländischer Rundfunk / arte )
- 2014: The Farmer - Sonam Zhingpa, 25-part fictional series (director, editor BBS Bhutan)
- 2015: The Farmer and I, feature documentary (written and directed)
- 2016: Yangka in the Land of Happiness (Director, Editor SWR / KIKA )
- 2017: Ridoy - child labor for soccer shoes (director, editor SWR / KIKA )
Awards
- 2014: German Environment and Sustainability Award, Naturvisionen Filmfestival Ludwigsburg
- 2014: German Economic Film Award, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
- 2016: The Farmer and I: Winner Best Documentary Film, Polish International Film Festival
- 2016: The Farmer and I: Winner Award of Excellence, Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards
Web links
- Irja von Bernstorff at filmportal.de
- Die Zeit: "The Farmer and I", On Gross National Happiness , Christiane Grefe
- NDR culture: city, country, river, overburdening cities
- Deutschlandfunk Interview: "Incredibly impressed with everything I met there."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralph Toms: German Environment and Sustainability Award. In: press release. Naturvision Filmvestival, July 26, 2014, accessed on August 17, 2017 .
- ^ Michael Bayer: 47th German Economic Film Award . (No longer available online.) In: Press release. Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, July 31, 2014, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 17, 2017 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Polish International Film Festival
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bernstorff, Irja von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Martens, Irja |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director, writer and producer of documentary films |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |