Petra Volpe
Petra Biondina Volpe (born August 6, 1970 in Suhr AG ) is an Italian - Swiss screenwriter and director .
Life
Volpe studied art in Zurich from 1992 to 1994. She then lived in New York City for two years before returning to Zurich and working there as a film editor . Subsequently, Volpe studied dramaturgy and screenwriting at the University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam until 2001 . Since then she has been working as a freelance screenwriter and director.
She became known to a wider audience with the film The Divine Order .
Filmography (selection)
- 1999: The Kiss (Director, Screenplay)
- 2001: Crevetten (Director)
- 2002: Schlorkbabies at the service station (director, screenplay)
- 2009: spring in autumn
- 2013: Lovely Louise (screenplay)
- 2013: Traumland (Director, Screenplay)
- 2015: Heidi (screenplay)
- 2017: The Divine Order (Director, Screenplay)
Awards
- 2010: Television play award and Ludwigsburg Film Academy Student Jury Award at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival for spring in autumn
- 2014: Günter Rohrbach Film Prize for Traumland
- 2017: Swiss Film Award in the "Best Screenplay" category for The Divine Order
- 2017: Nora Ephron Prize and Tribeca Film Festival Audience Prize for Divine Order
- 2020: Scholarship for the artist residence Villa Aurora
Web links
- Petra Volpe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Petra Volpe at filmportal.de
- Petra Volpe at swissfilms.ch
- Simone Meier : Petra Volpe: The Successful , Emma from June 28, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d biography of Petra Biondina Volpe on swissfilms.ch. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
- ↑ Julia Bähr: In a country before our time . August 2, 2017. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
- ↑ Michael Ballhaus grant: camerawoman Judith Kaufmann awarded , deutschlandfunkkultur.de from February 8, 2020, accessed February 18, 2020
personal data | |
---|---|
SURNAME | Volpe, Petra |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Volpe, Petra Biondina (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-Swiss screenwriter and director |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1970 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Suhr AG , Switzerland |