Heidi Specogna
Heidi Specogna | |
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German Film and Television Academy | |
Occupation(s) | Director, producer, editor, cinematographer, lecturer |
Years active | 1988–present |
Website | http://www.heidispecogna.de |
Heidi Specogna (born 5 January 1959) is a
Personal life
She was born on 5 January 1959 in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
Career
She attended the journalism school in Zurich and then worked as a journalist for various German-Swiss press media. Then she studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin from 1982 to 1988. After graduating from the academy, she became a lecturer at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg for documentary film since 2003. In 1985, her short film Traces won the Bern Film Prize.[3][4]
She focused largely on cinema of
In 2011 she made the documentary Carte Blanche which is focused on the
In 2019, Specogna awarded with the Konrad Wolf Prize at the Academy of the Arts. In 2020, The Solothurn Film Festival dedicated the special program “Rencontre” to Specogna for remembering her contribution to the African cinema.[7]
Filmography
Year | Film | Role | Genre | Ref. |
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1985 | Fährten | Director, writer, cinematographer, editor | Short film | |
1988 | Dschibuti | Director, writer | Short film | |
1991 | Tania - La Guerrillera | Director, writer, producer | Documentary | |
1994 | Deckname: Rosa | Director, writer | Documentary | |
1995 | Z-man's Kinder | Director, writer, producer | Film | |
1997 | Tupamaros | Director, writer, producer | Documentary | |
2004 | Eine Familienangelegenheit | Director, writer | TV movie documentary | |
2004 | Zeit der roten Nelken | Director, writer | Documentary | |
2006 | The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez | Director, writer, producer, photographer | Documentary | |
2009 | 24 Hours Berlin | Director | Film | |
2010 | Das Schiff des Torjägers | Director, writer | Documentary | |
2011 | Carte Blanche | Director, writer, producer | Documentary | |
2012 | Mädchengeschichten | Director, writer | TV series documentary | |
2014 | Pepe Mujica - Lessons from the Flowerbed | Director | Documentary | |
2016 | Cahier Africain | Director, writer | Documentary |
Awards and accolades
- 2007: Swiss Film Award in the Best Documentary Film category for The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez
- 2008: Adolf Grimme Prizefor The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez
- 2011: 3sat documentary film award for Carte Blanche
- 2012: German Human Rights Film Award for Esther and the Ghosts
- 2013: Catholic Media Prize for Carte Blanche
- 2016: German human rights film award for Cahier africain
- 2017: Swiss Film Prize and German Film Prize LOLA for Cahier africain (Best Documentary)
- 2019: Konrad Wolf Prize
See also
- Jonathan Akpoborie
- 16th Busan International Film Festival
- Political cinema
- Salena Godden
- Hispanics in the United States Marine Corps
References
- ^ "Figueira Cid". tvtime. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "Konrad-Wolf-Preis 2019 geht an Heidi Specogna". Akademie der Künste. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ a b "Heidi Specogna Biography". swissfilms. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "Bio- / Filmografie Heidi Specogna (Buch und Regie)". famafilm. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "DOKUMENTARFILM PROF. HEIDI SPECOGNA: BIOGRAPHIE". filmakademie. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "Heidi Specogna". grimme-preis. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "Heidi Specogna is the guest of honor of the "Rencontre" at the Solothurn Film Festival 2020". solothurnerzeitung. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
External links
- Heidi Specogna at IMDb