2020 ShortFest Archive
In competition for Best Student International Short
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Hannah Martin studied Theatre and Media Studies at the University of Bayreuth before working as an assistant director and dramaturg at a theatre in Berlin. She completed her degree in script writing at the German Film- and Television Academy Berlin in 2017, and has since been working at a consulting agency for artificial intelligence. Here, she has taken on the role of a strategic communications expert, while simultaneously exploring the working world and the earnestness of life. Works of art are the occasionally byproduct of Hannah’s insatiable hunger for pleasure. Melanie Waelde grew up amidst churches and cows, before eventually leaving Bavaria for Berlin. Until 2017, she studied script writing at the German Film and Television Academy. Since then she has been working as a freelance author and as a filmmaker and is based in Potsdam. Her documentary “Like in Africa” was awarded the German Young Filmmakers’ Prize in 2015. Melanie indulges in the absurdities of life and is quite fond of anything that is colorful. Director Filmography Hannah Martin 2015 LABELLED - THE BERLIN START-UP OFFICE – OXYHYDROGEN TEST web series | 15 min 2012 KAVKA WANTS TO DIE short | 25 min Melanie Waelde (excerpt) 2019 NAKED ANIMALS feature | 90 min (script & director) 2018 CASTLE EINSTEIN - EPISODE 933 TV series | 25 min (script) 2017 FÜR UMME - DIE SERIE web series | 10 min (script) 2016 MOTHS short | 6 min (script & director) 2015 LABELLED - THE BERLIN START-UP OFFICE - RESISTANCE web series | 15 min (director)