Miriam Fassbender
Miriam Faßbender (* 1980 in Munich ) is a German camerawoman and filmmaker .
Life
Starting out as an autodidact , Faßbender worked as a material and camera assistant on films such as Shooting Dogs by Michael Caton-Jones, Zarins Story by Shirin Neshat or Der Baader Meinhof Complex by Uli Edel.
In 2001 she took part in the summer course cinematography at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and studied camera at the film and television college (Famu) in Prague from 2003–2005 . Today she lives in Berlin and works as a freelance camerawoman for documentary films.
While she was working as a camera assistant on a film project by Shirin Neshat in Morocco in 2005, and there was a run on the border fence near Ceuta and Melilla, she met three migrants in Casablanca (including from Cameroon and Markala , Mali ). From December 2006 she shot for three years in Gao , in the north of Mali, in the Foyer du nord (Foyer de travailleurs migrants) in the southern Algerian Adrar and Morocco (2008) on their way to Europe. Later, at the request of Westend Verlag , she wrote a diary about it.
In 2009 she worked as a camera assistant at Soul Kitchen . In 2014-15 she directed work for the Don Bosco refugee agency in Vienna.
Publications
- 2850 kilometers - Mohamed, Jerry and I on the road in Africa. Diary of an escape ; 2014
Filmography
- Viktoriastadt - people of the 21st century; by Johannes Kochs
- Damn it, I'm an adult - Rolf Losansky; by Dagmar Seume
- Ge9n; by Haukur Mar Helgasson
- Foreign
Web links
- Miriam Fassbender in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fassbender, Miriam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German camerawoman and filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |