Susan Gluth

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Susan Gluth (* 1968 in Hamburg ) is a German documentary filmmaker (camera, director) and film producer.

Life

After completing an apprenticeship as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk, Gluth learned the photographic trade in fashion and advertising photography in Hamburg and Paris. This was followed by a traineeship in the editorial office at Spiegel TV , then working as a freelance EB assistant for German television for reportage and magazine formats. From 1995 to 2003 she studied documentary film and television journalism at the University of Television and Film Munich . She has been a freelance camerawoman since 1997 and shoots films for colleagues as well as her own during her studies.

The first long documentary as a director was made in 1999 with l'amour chez TATI , which ZDF / ARTE bought and which got a place in the “Videotheque de Paris”. In 2000, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany, the film OSTWÄRTS was made under the direction of Gerd Ruge , which was shown in various 3rd programs on ARD. Gluth graduated from film school in 2003 with Nulla si sa, tutto s'immagina… secondo Fellini . In addition to Gluth, Luigi Falorni was also responsible for the camera for this project . ARTE secured the rights to this associative-experimental documentary film. In 2004 Gluth started a long-term documentary about the guitarist Dominic Miller .

In 2005 Gluth traveled to Chad and researched and shot in 4 weeks in a refugee camp along the border with Sudan. With the support of UNICEF, With the Eyes of a Refugee Child (BR) and the longer version Shadows of Fate were created . The film was produced by artdocu, Gluth was a co-producer.

Since then she has produced her own films. In 2008, Wasser und Seife ( Das kleine Fernsehspiel ) was made, which she brought to cinemas in German-speaking countries in 2009 as a self-rental and which premiered at the Hamburg Film Festival . In 2010 she resumed filming from 2004 which took her to Sun City , Arizona . This resulted in Playing Hooky-getting old is not for sissies , which won an award at the 2014 Hof Film Festival . In 2016, after 5 years of filming in Nepal and in co-production with Martin Hagemann, Urmila - for freedom ( Urmila-my memory is my power ) with the premiere in Toronto, Hot Docs. The film Will Be Died Tomorrow is due to appear in German cinemas at the end of 2017.

Gluth's films were shown at international film festivals in Berlin, Rotterdam, Toronto, Montréal, Nyon and Leipzig. The following museums showed her work: Reina Sofia / Madrid, American Natural History Museum / NYC, Haus der Kunst / Munich, Ethnographic Museum / Munich, Filmmuseum Amsterdam, Filmmuseum Potsdam , Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt , Filmmuseum Munich .

Previous stops on the shooting trips have been Mexico, Guyana, Brazil, China, Israel, Bhutan, Japan, India, Nepal, Indonesia, Kenya, Korea, Namibia, Seychelles, Senegal, Chad, USA, Europe. Gluth has given courses at various German film schools (HFF Munich, Film Academy Ludwigsburg, HdM Stuttgart, Evangelical University Freiburg, University of Bayreuth), at the HFF Munich Dr. Dieter Kronzucker and Werner Schroeter assisted, accompanied the Int. Hofer Filmtage as a presenter and was on various juries for international film festivals and national film subsidies.

In 2013 the book “Films. Macherinnen. ”By Henriette Kaiser, edition text + kritik with a portrait of Gluth. In 2015 German Films published a portrait of Gluth.

Prizes / awards

  • 2003: Nomination for best camera “femme totale” Dortmund for Nulla si sa, tutto s'immagina… secondo Fellini
  • 2003: Nomination for Best Diploma Film Babelsberg Media Awards for Nulla si sa, tutto s'immagina… secondo Fellini
  • 2003: Best Film Int. Milano Film Festival, Italy for Nulla si sa, tutto s'immagina… secondo Fellini
  • 2003: Best Film Dokfest Munich / fff for Nulla si sa, tutto s'immagina… secondo Fellini
  • 2009: Best Film Int. Feminafilmfest, Czech Republic for soap and water
  • 2009: Best Director Riverrun Int. Soap and Water Film Festival, USA
  • 2009: North German Film Prize for Soap and Water
  • 2009: Rating: Particularly valuable for soap and water
  • 2016: Pre-nomination for the German LOLA film award for Urmila - for freedom
  • 2016: Predicate: Particularly valuable for Urmila - for freedom
  • 2016: Best film KIMFF, Nepal for Urmila - for freedom
  • 2017: Best Documentary NAIFF, Washington for Urmila - For Freedom

Filmography

  • 1995: A plea for the circus
  • 1996: everyday life.
  • 1998: Anne Wachira, portrait of a homeless person
  • 1998: Eric and his children
  • 1999: Thomas Plenert, conversation with the cameraman
  • 1999: Wedding off the rack (l'amour chez TATI)
  • 2000: EASTWARD
  • 2001: Bhutan, a country in the Himalayas
  • 2003: You don't know anything, you imagine everything - according to Fellini (Nulla si sa, tutto s'immagina… secondo Fellini)
  • 2005: Through the eyes of a refugee child
  • 2006: Shadows of Fate, a refugee childhood
  • 2008: Soap and Water
  • 2014: Playing Hooky - getting old is not for sissies
  • 2016: Urmila - for freedom (Urmila-my memory is my power)
  • 2017: Tomorrow will die

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Duane Byrge: hollywoodreporter.com In: The Hollywood Reporter. October 14, 2010.
  2. ↑ Duane Byrge hollywoodreporter.com In: The Hollywood Reporter. 5th August 2015.
  3. ↑ Diana Martinez: blog.womenandhollywood.com In: Women and Hollywood. April 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ Wilfried Hippen: taz.de In: TAZ. 2nd June 2016.
  5. ↑ Glocal Khabar: glocalkhabar.com In: GlocalKhabar. December 12, 2016.
  6. ↑ Silvia Hallensleben: epd-film.de In: epd film. April 21, 2016.
  7. ↑ Notimex 20minutos.com.mx In: 20 Minutos. May 8, 2016.
  8. ↑ Parvin Sadigh zeit.de In: Die Zeit. June 1, 2016.
  9. ^ Mathias Ellwanger stuttgarter-nachrichten.de In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. June 11, 2016.
  10. ↑ Hannah Stein exberliner.com In: EXBERLINER. 19th May 2016.
  11. ↑ a b Werner Schauer, Triptychon Corporate Communications GmbH for German Films, Munich: German Films Quarterly Portrait SUSAN GLUTH. Retrieved May 27, 2017 (English).
  12. ↑ The pure pleasure of getting active: Programmkino.de
personal data
SURNAME Gluth, Susan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary filmmaker (camera, director) and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg