Maria von Heland
Maria von Heland is a writer and director. The Swedish woman, who lives in Berlin, wrote the script for Kai Wessel‘s Hilde, which has just had its premiere. Some of her most well-known directing works are Suddenly Gina (2007), Big Girls don’t Cry (2002) and Recycled (1999). Maria von Heland was born in 1965 in Stockholm. After studying journalism at Rider College in Lawrenceville, she attended acting courses in New York and Paris. Later she studied in Los Angeles at the School of Film and Video of the California Institute of the Arts and at the Film and Television Academy »Konrad Wolff« in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Her first short film Chainsmoker (1997) won many awards, including the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Short Film Prize. Von Heland worked for Swedish television and as a screenplay developer for production companies in Sweden and the USA. She is currently preparing her new feature film project, Hector’s Journey, based on the novel by François Lelord.