National Competition for Women Directors of Photography

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National Competition for Women Directors of Photography

EIGHTH AWARD FOR WOMEN DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY

The stated aim of the National Competition for Women Directors of Photography – an award unique anywhere in the world – is to focus attention on the camera work of women. Th is next-generation award is conferred for best cinematography in the two fi elds of feature fi lm and documentary film. Eligible are graduation pieces or fi lms made within the first two years after graduation.

Since 2001, the award has successfully supported the work of young female directors of photography, acting as endorsement and encouragement as they continue on their career path in a still male-dominated area of work.
Sophie Maintigneux, the renowned director of photography, two-time winner of the German Camera Award and professor at the Cologne Academy of Media Arts, has actively supported the award since its inception. Sitting with her on the jury are: Anne Misselwitz who won the Women Directors of Photography Award in 2009 for her graduation piece Der Die Das and whose latest film Were Dengê Min (dir. Hüseyin Karabey) celebrated its première at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014; and Julia Daschner who was an award-winner for the movie Bergig in 2012 and whose most recent film Lose Your Head (dir. Stefan Westerwelle) was released in 2013. From a list of 29 nominees, they chose two winners …

Th e €2,500 prize this year for best cinematography in the category of documentary fi lm goes to Christiane Schmidt for the film The Forest Is Like the Mountains / Pădurea e ca muntele, vezi? (dir. Christiane Schmidt and Didier Guillain).

The €2,500 prize this year for best cinematography in the category of feature film goes to Bine Jankowski for the film Rebecca (dir. Anna Kohlschütter).

Awardees
2022: Roxana Reiss Fence, Constanze Schmitt Mayor, Shepherd, Widow, Dragon
2020: Sabine Panossian Off Season, Doro Götz Lost in Face
2018: Paola Calvo Violently Happy, Marie Zahir Wie ich mich verlor
2016: Julia Hönemann Porn Punk Poetry, Katharina Diessner Arlette – Mut ist ein Muskel
2014: Christiane Schmidt The Forest is Like the Mountains, Bine Jankowski Rebecca
2012: Julia Daschner Bergig, Eva Katharina Bühler Der weiße Schatz und die Salzarbeiter von Caquena
2011: Eva Maschke Frauenzimmer, Hanne Klaas Ole
2009: Marlen Schlawin Badetag, Susanne Kurz 1,2,3, Anne Misselwitz Der Die Das
2007: Ute Freund Du hast gesagt, dass du mich liebst
2005: Bernadette Paassen In den Schubladen
2003: Janne Busse Klassenfahrt
2001: Jutta Pohlmann England

Jury

Julia Daschner

Julia Daschner was born 1980 in Munich. After completing work experience for a freelance television production company, she decided in 2001 to take a film and television course at the Cologne Academy of Media Arts, including a semester abroad at the International School of Film and Television (EICTV) in Cuba. She graduated with the documentary film Auf der Walz. Today, she works as a freelance camerawoman and director. At the Dortmund | Cologne International Women’s Film Festival 2012, she won the Women Directors of Photography Award in the documentary category for her film Bergig, which she also directed. Her most recent film Lose Your Head (dir. by Stefan Westerwelle) was released to cinemas in 2013.

Films by Julia Daschner (Selection)
Shanghai Crab 2011 | Zucchiniblüten 2010 | Auf der Walz 2009 | Ein Sommer lang 2006 | Havanna, 30 de febrero 2005

Sophie Maintigneux

Sophie Maintigneux has been active as a freelance cinematographer since 1984. She has worked with directors such as Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Klier, Jan Schütte and Helga Reidemeister, and she has been director of photography on more than seventy fiction films and documentaries and has received numerous awards, including the German Camera Award for the documentary Ladies and Gentlemen over 65 and for Die dünnen Mädchen. In 2017, she received the The WIFTS Cinematographer Award. Her most recent works are the feature film Mario (directed by Marcel Gisler) and the documentary film outside directed by Johanna Sunder-Plassmann and Tama Tobias-Macht). Since 2011, she is Professor of Cinematography at the Cologne Academy of Media Arts.

Anne Misselwitz

Anne Misselwitz was born 1977 in Jena. She moved to Stockholm for a year when she was sixteen. This was followed by stays in Mexico and Guatemala. From 1998 to 2001, she studied in London at the College of Communication, Film & Video. After her graduation film Zwielicht, she returned to Berlin and studied camera from 2002 to 2007 at the Konrad Wolf Film & Television University in Potsdam. For her graduation piece Der Die Das, she won Women Directors of Photography Award in the documentary category in 2009. Her latest film Were Dengê Min (dir. Hüseyin Karabey) received its première at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014.