Nanouk Leopold

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Nanouk Leopold (born July 25, 1968 in Rotterdam , Netherlands ) is a Dutch film director and screenwriter .

life and work

Leopold initially studied multimedia and monumental art at an art college . She worked with rooms, places and installations and took photos. She switched to studying directing and screenwriting at the Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie in Amsterdam , which she graduated in 1997. Her graduation thesis at the academy, Weekend , was shown on Dutch television in 1998 and won the Dutch Tuschinski Film Award that same year . In 1999 her short TV film Max Lupa followed . Her first feature film Îles flottantes (Floating Islands) was shown in 2001 by the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO . The film was part of the No more Heroes project . In this project, the Dutch directors Martin Koolhoven and Michiel van Jaarsveld also made their feature films. Îles flottantes received the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam .

Movies

Leopold's feature film Guernsey from 2005 received the Golden Calf Prize for Best Director at the 2005 Dutch Film Festival , as well as the Prize for Best Actress and the Dutch Film Critics' Prize in the same year .

The film also took part in the Quinzaine des réalisateurs series of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival . Your film Wolfsbergen from 2007 is a leisurely film with a lot of silence, without music and with few conversations, which premiered at the Berlinale of the same year.

In 2010 Leopold shot the feature film Brownian Movement with German actress Sandra Hüller in the lead role, for which she also wrote the screenplay. The film was broadcast on January 15, 2013 and July 3, 2014 by the television station 3sat .

Leopold's film, entitled Above it's still (Boven is het stil), based on the novel of the same name by Gerbrand Bakker , for which she was again responsible for the direction and screenplay, premiered at the 2013 Berlinale .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ With skin and hair and co-produced: Brownian Movement ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Film & TV Kameramann from June 15, 2011, accessed on July 16, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kameramann.de
  2. ↑ Die Fremde in: FAZ of July 2, 2011, page 37
personal data
SURNAME Leopold, Nanouk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam , Netherlands