Jessica Lind

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Jessica Lind (born 1988 in St. Pölten ) is an Austrian screenwriter and film director who became famous for winning the 2015 Open Mike literary competition .

Life

Lind grew up in the capital of Lower Austria. Since May 2008 Jessica Lind has moderated the Litarena Lounge Poetry Slams in the Cinema Paradiso in St. Pölten together with Thomas Havlik .

The author has been studying script and dramaturgy at the Vienna Film Academy since 2011 , but has not yet completed her master’s degree (2015). For her literary work she was awarded a Hans Weigel literary scholarship in 2009/2010 and the “Youngster of Arts” award from the city of St. Pölten in 2010 and the BMUKK start-up scholarship for literature in 2012 . In 2010 she won the Ö1 literature competition "Words.See" with the text I dream of seeing , which was set to music as a radio play. In addition, texts by her are represented in anthologies . Her texts have been published in the literary magazine etcetera , the FM4 wording anthology and in The Gap .

Her literary role models include the Hungarian-Swiss writer Ágota Kristóf , whose low-slag, pointed language and thought leadership seemed to her to be groundbreaking at the film academy.

Jessica Lind lives in Vienna , where she works and studies as a freelance screenwriter and dramaturgic consultant.

Filmography

Lind has so far emerged as a director of short films, short documentaries and music videos.

  • 2013: Wunder , short film, 9 min. Direction / screenplay / poems by Jessica Lind.
  • 2009: Red , short film, 23 min. - actress

Awards

  • 2010: Winning of the Ö1 literature competition "Words.See" with the text "I dream of seeing"
  • 2012: BMUKK start-up grant for literature
  • 2015: "Writer in Residence" of the ORF III literary promotion program in the Loisium Resort in southern Styria
  • 2015: Literar-Mechana scriptwriting grant
  • 2019: Carl Mayer Screenplay Award for The Day When The Rain Came

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Two Austrians win Open Mike
  2. ↑ Litarena - action space for young literature St. Pölten
  3. ^ Writer in Residence of the ORF III Young Literature Funding Program , ORF September 20, 2015
  4. ↑ Click Fm4 wording 13 , short story anthology Fm4 wording
  5. ↑ The candidates of the open mike 2015 - Jessica Lind , Open Mike the blog of October 28, 2015
  6. ↑ Film work profile: Wunder , Cinema Next, Young Cinema from Austria
  7. ↑ Red film team
  8. ↑ Carl Mayer Screenplay Awards 2019 . Retrieved March 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Lind, Jessica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Polten