ABOUT BARBARA POLITSCH
BARBARA POLITSCH is an award winning director and producer. She graduated with honors from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Film & TV Program, was a recipient of the Warner Brother's Scholarship for Students of exceptional talent and recieved an MFA as a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. She also dipped into Media Arts as a postgraduate fellow at the Academy of Media Arts ( KHM) in Cologne Germany.
Her films have competed and won numerous awards in competition in International Film festivals. She has shot music videos, commercials and a lot of documentaries.
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She also teaches Directing and Documentary at the University of the Philippines Film Institute, where she is an Assistant Professor and the School of Design and Arts, SDA, De La Salle University in Manila. Philippines.
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AWARDS:
GOLDEN CENTAUR ( MESSAGE TO MAN AWARD) Grand Jury Prize, St. Petersburg Intl. Filmfestival, Russia
GOLDEN GATE AWARD, San Francisco Intl. Filmfestival, USA
Q-CINEMA MANILA, "Ten Best Asian Films Competition"
ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURES ARTS & SCIENCES, Los Angeles, USA, Student Academy Award
ACADEMY OF TV, ARTS & SCIENCES, Los Angeles, USA, Student "Emmy"
ADC ART DIRECTORS CLUB GERMANY, Winner Creative Director Workshop
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Various academic awards and scholarships.
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Acquired into the permanent collection of the Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D.C., USA
stored in the Film Museum Muenchen, National German Film Archives as cultural heritage for a rating of "special merit"
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In competition in Intl Filmfestivals: Bombay, San Francisco, Toronto, Amsterdam IDFA, Sao Paolo, St Petersburg, and others. DGA Awards, Chris Columbus Tribeca Film Festival showcase. and others.
screened US-wide in selected Theatres, shown on Arte, BBC, VPRO, ORF, HBO, and others.
exhibited at the
Maison européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France;
National Arts Club, New York City;
Museum for Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany
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CONTACT:
Office Berlin
Barbara Politsch
Görlitzerstr. 64
10997 Berlin - Germany
+49 176 689 58 067
