Barbara Albert
Barbara Albert (born in Vienna) is an Austrian writer, film-producer and film-director.She studied filmmaking at the Wiener Filmakademie. Her first film to become known to a larger audience was ''Nordrand'', which describes the reality of life of Yugoslavian children in Vienna.
She heads the production company ''Coop 99'' with Jessica Hausner and Antonin Svoboda, among others.
Her films were screened in Venice (''Nordrand'', 1999), Locarno (''Free Radical'', 2003) and Toronto (''Mademoiselle Paradis'', 2017).
As of 2024, she is a professor of directing at the Vienna Film Academy.
Her most recent project, the ''Sleeping Swans'' series, took the third place at 2024 Series Mania Seriesmakers section and won a €20,000 cash prize. The show was scripted by Ulrike Tony Vahl and produced by Martina Haubrich. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Christina Stabler, Andreas Reitz, Peter Stein, Barbara Albert, Ralf Riedel, Emanuel IonescuGet full text
Published 2018-02-01
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