Nanouk Leopold

Nanouk Leopold ( born July 25, 1968 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch film director and screenwriter.

Life and work

Leopold studied at an art academy in multimedia and monumental art. She worked there with rooms, places and installations and photographed. They moved to directing and screenwriting studies at the Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie in Amsterdam, which she completed in 1997. Your thesis at the Academy, Weekend, was shown on Dutch television in 1998 and was honored in the same year with the Dutch Tuschinsky Film Award. 1999 followed her television short film Max Lupa. Her first feature film Îles flottantes ( Floating Islands), was shown in 2001 by the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO. The film was part of the project No more Heroes. In this project, the Dutch directors Martin Koolhoven and Michiel van Jaarsveld made ​​their debut with their films. Îles flottantes received at the International Film Festival Rotterdam Tiger Award.

Leopold's feature film Guernsey from 2005 received the award Golden Calf at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2005 and in the same year, the price of the Netherlands Film criticism. The film also took part in the series Fortnight of the International Film Festival of Cannes 2005. Her film Wolfsbergen from the year 2007 is a leisurely film with a lot of silence, without music and with a few conversations that at the Berlinale of the same year had its premiere.

2010 turned Leopold the movie Brownian Movement with the German actress Sandra Huell in the lead role, for which she also wrote the screenplay .. The film was broadcast by the TV station 3sat on 15 January 2013.

Leopold's latest film from the year 2012, in which she again directed and wrote the screenplay, titled Above is there still ( Boven is het style ) based on the novel by Gerbrand Bakker. The film was shown at the Berlinale 2013.

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