Lisei Caspers

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Lisei Caspers (* 1983 in Ostercappeln ) is a German film director and screenwriter . She became known to a wider public in 2016 for her documentary Stranded .

Life

Lisei Caspers grew up in East Frisia and started making films after graduating from high school. In the 2003 documentary film series Hallo Krieg , she dealt with the Iraq war , for which she received the NRW Youth Culture Prize in 2004. Then she continued her education with further internships in the media industry. A time as a freelancer for the media project Wuppertal followed . Then she made her first full-length documentary Grenzgebiet - Spiritual Healing , which is about alternative healing methods in the Philippines . It was created on three trips that Caspers took in 2005. The documentary was awarded the German Young Talent Award at the international up-and-coming film festival in Hanover in 2007 . Part of the award consisted of a sponsorship with a successful producer from the film and television industry. In the case of Lisei Caspers, it was the Berlin producer Peter Rommel , who has been promoting the director ever since.

Caspers then studied at the Center for Global Studies at the University of Bonn , where she obtained the academic degree of a Magistra Artium . Through an internship at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Ramallah , she experienced the Middle East conflict first hand and processed her experiences in another documentary about young people from Palestine, Israel and London who take different positions on the Middle East conflict. The full-length film Fragments of Palestine premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2011 and was also shown at other festivals. During a subsequent stay abroad in the Palestinian Territories , Caspers worked for the aid organization Oxfam in the areas of media and communication for two years .

Since the beginning of 2014 Caspers has been working as a freelance writer and director in Berlin and Hamburg .

The long-term collaboration with producer Peter Rommel was continued with the documentary Stranded , which was released in 2016 . The film is about a group of Eritrean refugees who end up in the agricultural village of Strackholt in the municipality of Großefehn in East Friesland, which has around 1500 inhabitants . Caspers accompanied the refugees on their way as asylum seekers over a period of 19 months. The documentary not only shows the needs of the asylum seekers, but also the support given to asylum seekers by volunteer supervisors. The film was shown for the first time in the competition of the Max Ophüls Preis film festival in Saarbrücken on January 20, 2016 . The German theatrical release was on April 7, 2016.

Filmography

  • 2003: Hello war
  • 2005: homeless
  • 2006: Frontier Area - Spiritual Healing
  • 2008: Salam ya Baladi (Hello my homeland)
  • 2011: Fragments of Palestine
  • 2016: stranded
  • 2019: door opener

Awards (selection)

  • 2007: German Young Talent Award for the documentary Grenzgebiet - Spiritual Healing , up-and-coming (Internationales Filmfestival Hannover)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Team: Lisei Caspers - Director , accessed on April 11, 2016
  2. ↑ Center for Global Studies Bonn: Promotion of Young Researchers and Teaching , accessed on April 12, 2016
  3. ↑ Stranded - The Movie , accessed April 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Caspers, Lisei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostercappeln , Germany