Susanna Salonen

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Susanna Salonen (* 1966 in Lahti , Finland ) is a Finnish-German camerawoman , director , screenwriter and Grimme Prize winner .

Life

Susanna Salonen was born in Finland in 1966 and grew up in Lübeck from 1973 , where she graduated from high school in 1986.

She gained her first film experience in 1988 as a second camera assistant in the feature film Cha Cha Cha by Mika Kaurismäki . She then worked as a lighting technician and camera assistant for documentaries and feature films.

Her first directorial work, A Tokyo Fusebox , came about by chance during a trip to Japan in 1998 and tells essayistically about her experiences as a hostess in a hostess club in Tokyo's entertainment district Roppongi and about life as a foreigner in Tokyo. The film premiered in the Forum of the Berlinale in 1999 . The next film, Monsoonregen, describes a journey by public transport from Phuket via Cambodia and Vietnam to Hong Kong like a diary. Along the route, Salonen encounters very different living environments, for example former soldiers of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia or western extras at television game shows in Hong Kong. This was followed by the documentaries Shea Surfergirl , Red and Blues, and the autobiographical story The Beginning Was Good . She accompanied the ruling mayor Klaus Wowereit at the television event 24 hours Berlin . Salonen works as a director and as a camerawoman. She is a member of the German Film Academy.

She was awarded the Grimme Prize in 2016 for the feature film Patong Girl , for which she also wrote the screenplay and which is based on her time as a diving instructor in Phuket , Thailand .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1999: A Tokyo Fusebox - Documentary director / camera
  • 2000: Monsoonregen - documentary film director / camera
  • 2002: Shea Surfergirl - documentary director / camera
  • 2004: Red and Blues - documentary film director / camera
  • 2006: The beginning was good - documentary film direction / camera
  • 2008: 24 hours Berlin - Klaus Wowereit - documentary film director / camera
  • 2012: Man for a Day - camera
  • 2012: Relationships - Camera
  • 2013: The Aryan Camera
  • 2014: Patong Girl - feature film direction and screenplay
  • 2018: Sylt of all things - TV film director

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ grimme-institut.de ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Announcement of the winners of the 52nd Grimme Prize 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grimme-institut.de
  2. ↑ imdb.com , Susanna Salonen
  3. ↑ arsenal-berlin.de , A Tokyo Fusebox in the archive of the forum, Berlinale 1999, accessed May 29, 12014
  4. ↑ zeit.de , Die Zeit, television review: "Monsoonregen" by B. Sichtermann, accessed on May 29, 2014
  5. ↑ zdf.de , The entire film Shea Surfergirl in the ZDF Mediathek, accessed on June 17, 2014
  6. ^ German Film Academy - members. Retrieved May 15, 2018 .
  7. ↑ grimme-institut.de , The price decisions 2016
  8. ↑ Press kit: Sylt, of all places. ZDF press portal, accessed on May 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Salons, Susanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish-German camerawoman, director, screenwriter and Grimme Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahti , Finland