Sandra Nettelbeck
Sandra Nettelbeck (born April 4, 1966 in Hamburg ) is a German film director and screenwriter .
Life
Sandra Nettelbeck was born as the daughter of Uwe and Petra Nettelbeck in Hamburg, where she also grew up. She finished her school education in 1984 at the Odenwald School in Hesse.
From 1987 to 1992 she studied film at San Francisco State University with a focus on directing, screenwriting, film production, editing, light and camera. Her 40-minute graduation film, A Certain Grace , describes a love triangle and was awarded the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the San Francisco Film Festival . After graduating, she worked for two years as an editor for film and cinema magazines.
Film career
Her first long film, Inconsistent and Cool , was implemented by Nettelbeck in 1995 for the series Das kleine Fernsehspiel on ZDF . In this drama, in which Regula Grauwiller and Jasmin Tabatabai took on roles, she directed, wrote the screenplay and played a supporting role herself. From 1996 she filmed the comedy Mammamia with Senta Berger , Christiane Paul and Peter Lohmeyer for television based on her own script. For this she won the main prize and the screenplay prize at the award ceremony of the Max Ophüls Prize .
The director's breakthrough came in 2001 with the film Bella Martha , in which Martina Gedeck took on the leading role and well-known European actors such as the Italian Sergio Castellitto and the Dane Ulrich Thomsen played. The romantic film is about a cook who has to serve as a surrogate mother for her niece , was commercially successful and won international film awards. With her next production Sergeant Pepper , she created a children's film that tells of a friendship between a six-year-old boy and a dog.
Helen is the director's first English-language feature film. The international cinema production with Ashley Judd and Goran Višnjić in the leading roles celebrated its world premiere at the2009 Sundance Film Festival .
Filmography
- 1992: A Certain Grace (short film: director)
- 1995: inconsistent and cool (direction, screenplay, performance)
- 1998: Mammamia (director, screenplay, editor)
- 2001: Bella Martha (Director, Screenplay, Actor)
- 2004: Sergeant Pepper (Director, Screenplay)
- 2009: Helen (Director, Screenplay)
- 2013: Mr. Morgan's Last Love (Director, Screenplay)
- 2014: Monsoon Baby (screenplay)
- 2015: I'll be gone (screenplay)
- 2018: What Doesn't Kill Us (Director, Screenplay)
Awards
A certain grace
- 1992 San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Best Short Film Audience Award
Mammamia
- 1998: Max Ophüls Prize , Best Film, Best Screenplay, won
Bella Martha
- 2002: German Film Award , Best Film, nominated
- 2002: Lecce, European Film Festival, Italy, special jury prize won
- 2002: Lecce, European Film Festival, Italy, Student Jury Prize
- 2002: Valencia Film Festival, Audience Award, won
- 2002: Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, France, best film won
- 2002: Festival International du Films d'Amour de Mons, Belgium, best film won
- 2002: Festival International du Films d'Amour de Mons, Belgium, Best Screenplay, won
- 2002: Nantucket Film Festival, Best Screenplay, won
- 2003: Goya , Best European Film, nominated
- 2003: Muscat Film Festival, Oman, Silver Award, won
Sergeant Pepper
- 2005: Toronto International Film Festival , Young People's Jury Award, Best Film, won
- 2005: Munich Film Festival , The White Elephant , won
- 2005: International Children's Film Festival Ale Kino! Poznań, Poland, nominated
Helen
- 2009: Voice Award, USA, won
Editor
- Uwe Nettelbeck : No idea about art and little about business . Film review 1963–1968. Philo Fine Arts (Fundus 196), Hamburg 2010, 319 pages.
Web links
- Sandra Nettelbeck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- “I just can't keep up with the writing” , interview on critic.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nettelbeck, Sandra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4th 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg , Germany |