2020 ShortFest Archive
In competition for Best Student International Short and Best LGBT+ Short
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Bernadette Kolonko, born 1985, studied photography at Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and Zurich University of the Arts. After that she studied film directing and did her BA and MA at Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. Aside from her direction of short films, she also works in casting for non-actors/actresses, working on Valeska Grisebachs Western. She engages in collectives and research groups, like Babelsberger Salon, the feminist film collective f/9 and SWAN. Since 2019 she has been a Fellow at Zurich University of the Arts, where she works as an artistic researcher and theory lecturer in the field of gender and diversity in fiction films.