MICHAELA RESCH | DIRECTOR

Michaela Resch was born in 1986 in Vienna and grew up in North Rhine-Westphalia. She studied Journalism and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna as well as Social and Cultural Anthropology and Film Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. In fall 2018 she graduated from the international advanced Master’s Program Visual and Media Anthropology at FU Berlin, with her documentary film “HERZ STICHT“ (Austria/Germany, completed in 2019). Her short documentary „RE:AW:RE:FW“ (Germany 2016, in collaboration with Anna Caroline Arndt) won the special award of the Foundation of the Sorbian People at the 26th Filmfestival Cottbus, and was nominated for the European film price for political child and youth documentaries ”GROSSE KLAPPE” – founded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education/bpb. Since 2010 she has been working amongst other positions, as a director and storyteller for various companies and projects, like Deutsche Welle, Kulturprojekte Berlin or Museum Neukölln. She engages with social justice, gender empowerment and political resistance issues. Her focus lies on the complexities of human beings and the systems they live in – combining her creative intuition with an ethnographical approach.
 

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