Sandra Nettelbeck
Sandra Nettelbeck ( born April 4, 1966 in Hamburg ) is a German film director and screenwriter.
Life
Sandra Nettelbeck was born as the daughter of Uwe Nettelbeck and Petra in Hamburg, where she also grew up. Your education she finished 1984 at the Odenwald School in Hesse.
From 1987 to 1992 she studied film at San Francisco State University with a focus on directing, screenwriting, film production, editing, lighting and camera. Your 40 -minute thesis film, A Certain Grace, describes a love triangle and was honored at the San Francisco Film Festival with the Audience Award for Best Short Film. After graduating, she worked for two years as an editor for film and theater Magazine.
Film career
Your first feature film, Fickle and cool, put Nettelbeck 1995 for the television series The little teleplay in ZDF order. In this drama, in which regulators Grauwiller and Jasmin Tabatabai roles were filled, she directed, wrote and played himself in a supporting role with. The comedy Mammamia with Senta Berger, Christiane Paul and Peter Lohmeyer they filmed from 1996 after his own script for television. For this, she won the grand prize and the award for best screenplay at the ceremony at the Max Ophüls Prize.
The breakthrough for the director in 2001 with the film Bella Martha, in which Martina Gedeck took over the lead role and well-known European actors such as the Italian Sergio Castellitto and the Dane Ulrich Thomsen played along. The romantic film is about a cook who has to serve her niece as a surrogate mother, was commercially successful and won international film awards. With their next production Sergeant Pepper, she created a children's film about a friendship between a six year old boy and a dog.
Helen is the first English-language feature film director. The international film production with Ashley Judd and Goran Visnjic in the lead roles had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2009.
Filmography
Awards
- 2002: German Film Award, Best Picture, nominated
- 2002: Lecce Festival of European Films, Italy, Special Jury Prize won,
- 2002: Lecce Festival of European Films, Italy, price students won jury,
- 2002: Valencia Film Festival, Audience Award won,
- 2002: Festival International de Films de Femmes de Creteil, France, won Best Film,
- 2002: Festival International du film d' Amour de Mons, Belgium, won Best Film,
- 2002: Festival International du film d' Amour de Mons, Belgium, won Best Screenplay,
- 2002: Nantucket Film Festival, won Best Screenplay,
- 2003: Goya, Best European film nominated,
- 2003: Muscat Film Festival, Oman, Silver Award won,
- 2005: Toronto International Film Festival, Young People's Jury Award, Best Picture won,
- 2005: Munich Film Festival, White Elephant won,
- 2005: International Children's Film Festival Ale Kino! Poznan, Poland nominated,
- 2009: Voice Award, USA, won