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Witcraft is an Austrian film production company based in Vienna. The company was founded in 2008 by the producer, author and dramaturge Ursula Wolschlager and the dramaturge, editor and author Robert Buchschwenter .

In the early years, the production company specialized in the development of fictional and documentary film material for cinema and television together with screenwriters. Most of the films were made in cooperation with other production companies. For its highly innovative and at the same time practicable business strategy, the company was awarded a start-up grant from departure --wirtschaft, kunst und culture gmbh.

Witcraft Filmproduktion GmbH was founded in 2016 . This company takes on the development and production of feature films, documentaries and TV series, while Witcraft Szenario OG carries out the training projects.

Witcraft directed the documentary Gangster Girls (2008) by Tina Leisch . Tina Leisch's second documentary Roque Dalton, Let's Shoot the Night! (2013) is still on an international festival tour (Kassel, Havana, Austin, Oaxaca, and around 40 other festivals worldwide) after the Austrian, Mexican and Spanish cinemas in 2014.

As a production company for the development and packaging phase, Witcraft developed Marie Kreutzer's award-winning debut film Die Vaterlosen (2011) and realized it in co-production with Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion. The film premiered in the Panorama of the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011. Marie Kreutzer's Was just ruined us so (2016) was developed and co-produced by Witcraft.

Ma Folie (2015) by Andrina Mračnikar was produced in cooperation with Extrafilm and celebrated its premiere in the competition of the Max Ophüls Preis film festival and was awarded the Carl Mayr script award and the First Steps Award .

The historical feature film Licht was developed with writer Kathrin Resetarits and director Barbara Albert von Witcraft and realized as a co-production between NGF Geyrhalterfilm and LOOKS Film. The film was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and the International Film Festival San Sebastian and received a record 14 nominations for the Austrian Film Prize.

The comedy Anna F ** king Molnar (2017) by Sabine Derflinger (based on a script by Nina Proll and Ursula Wolschlager, based on an idea by Nina Proll) ran successfully in cinemas and was nominated with two Romies for Nina Proll and Murathan Muslu.

The culture clash comedy Kaviar by Elena Tikhonova (based on a script by Robert Buchschwenter and Elena Tikhonova) started in Austrian and German cinemas in 2019 and won the audience award of the film festival Max Ophüls Prize and the prize for best director in Austria Film Institute and the Kitzbühel Film Festival.

In 2019 Witcraft expanded its portfolio to include TV series projects that are currently in development.

The material development program Various Stories - Screenplays between cultures , initiated and carried out by Witcraft Scenario , was nominated in 2010 for the Austrian State Prize for Adult Education (Integration through Education) . The workshop program Various Stories has been offering authors with a migration background a platform for the mature development of their scripts since 2009 . Former graduates of Diverse Stories are: Umut Dag / Petra Ladinigg, Catalina Molina, Arman T. Riahi, Tereza Kotyk, Alexandra Makarová and Nathalie Borgers. Various stories included the hit Die Migrantigen by Arman T. Riahi and the culture-clash comedy Kaviar by Elena Tikhonova.

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  1. ↑ http://dastandard.at/1292461962531/Erzaehlt-doch-was-ihr-wollt
  2. ↑ http://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/kultur/film/34207_Oesterreichische-Zuwanderer-auf-den-Spuren-Billy-Wilders.html
  3. ↑ gangstergirls.at
  4. ↑ berlinale.de
  5. ↑ 2011.diagonale.at
  6. ↑ oesterreichische-filmakademie.at (PDF).