Sandra Wollner

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Sandra Wollner at the Berlinale 2020

Sandra Wollner (* 1983 in Leoben ) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter . She lives in Berlin.

Live and act

Sandra Wollner first studied theater, film and media studies and worked as an editor and director of short films and short documentaries. In 2012 she began studying documentary film directing at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy . Her first feature-length film, The Impossible Image , was made while she was still a student and was shot exclusively on 16mm material. The film academy appeared here as a producer. For the film she received the German Film Critics ' Prize in 2018 , the Ingmar Bergman Prize for the best international debut at the Gothenburg Film Festival and the Jury Prize at the Poitiers Film Festival.

With her second feature film, The Trouble with Being Born , her graduation film at the Film Academy, she won the special jury prize in the Berlinale Encounters section and the Austrian Film Prize 2021 in 2020. Wollner described the story about an android who was supposed to be the daughter of her creator grows up as a kind of "anti- Pinocchio ".

Filmography

  • 2013: We're fine (short film)
  • 2014: Luis & Luk (short film)
  • 2015: Viktor (short film)
  • 2016: The impossible picture
  • 2020: The Trouble with Being Born

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ By Martin Fichter-Wöß / APA | 9 pm, 2 pm, 25 February 2020: Berlinale: Sandra Wollner's film about "the dissolution of an ego". February 25, 2020, accessed March 1, 2020 .
  2. ^ Johanna Birnbaum: Berlin Film Festival: Styrian Sandra Wollner in the new Berlinale competition. In: kleinezeitung.at. January 17, 2020, accessed March 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b The impossible picture - Director: Sandra Wollner. In: femmes-totales.de. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Patrick Wellinski: Sandra Wollner on "The Impossible Image": The unreal flicker of memories. In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de. May 5, 2018, accessed March 2, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Katrin Doerksen: The impossible picture (2016). In: kino-zeit.de. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Barbara Schuster: Sandra Wollner: "The search while shooting was indispensable". In: Blickpunkt: Film. mediabiz, February 24, 2020, accessed on March 2, 2020 .
  7. ^ Astrid Tauch: Conversation. Father loves android daughter: “The trouble with being born” at the Berlinale. In: swr.de - SWR2. February 25, 2020, accessed March 2, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Encounters Jury. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Christopher Vourlias: Sandra Wollner on Berlin AI Drama 'The Trouble With Being Born'. In: variety.com. February 26, 2020, accessed March 3, 2020 .
  10. ↑ The New German Cinema Award 2016. In: hofer-filmtage.com. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Agnieszka Polska wins the 2017 National Gallery Prize, Sandra Wollner wins the 2017 Film Art Prize. In: smb.museum - Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin. October 23, 2017, accessed March 3, 2020 .
  12. ^ Prize of the German Film Critics - The Winners 2018. In: vdfk.de. Association of German Film Critics, February 11, 2019, accessed on March 3, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Diagonale screenplay prices to Kleindienst and Moder. In: Upper Austrian Volksblatt . April 29, 2020, accessed April 29, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Diagonal firmly in a woman's hand. In: ORF.at . June 30, 2020, accessed June 30, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Prize winners 2020 - First Steps. In: firststeps.de. Retrieved September 15, 2020 .
  16. ↑ State Secretary Mayer announces Outstanding Artist Awards. September 21, 2020, accessed September 21, 2020 .
  17. ↑ "The Trouble With Being Born" wins the Austrian Film Prize. In: Die Presse / APA. July 8, 2021, accessed July 8, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Wollner, Sandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Leoben