Maria von Heland

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Maria von Heland (* 1965 in Stockholm ) is a German director and author .

Life

Maria von Heland earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rider College in Lawrenceville, New Jersey , in 1987 after completing high school . At the same time she was taking acting classes in New York. From 1990 to 1995 she studied film studies at the California Institute of the Arts and the School of Film and Video in Los Angeles . During these studies she was an exchange student at the Konrad Wolf Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg in 1992 .

With her short films The Stronger (1994), Chainsmoker (1997) and Real Men Eat Meat , she received international attention and prizes such as the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Short Film Prize 1997, the Multicurta Award (São Paulo 1998), the International Canal + Award (1998 ) and the Grand Prix du Court Métrage (Valenciennes 1999). In 1999 von Heland directed the television film Recycled, which was produced for WDR . The actresses of their first feature film Große Mädchen nicht cry , produced by Columbia Pictures in 2002, Anna Maria Mühe , Karoline Herfurth and Jenny Ulrich , subsequently became renowned actresses in German film. Back in Sweden she directed the TV movie Orka! Orka! and on Those Who Whisper with Pernilla August . The film feature SÖK , shot in 2006, was nominated for the Swedish Guldbagge Film Prize and the Prix des Amériques in Montreal. In 2007 she shot breakfast with a stranger with Julia Jentsch and Jan Josef Liefers for Sat.1 . In 2009 she wrote the screenplay for the film Hilde about the life of Hildegard Knef .

Filmography (selection)

script
Director
Equipment (crew)
  • 2008: The 21st European Film Awards
production
  • 2006: Sök

Awards

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personal data
SURNAME Heland, Maria von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm