Barbara Albert

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Barbara Albert
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Barbara Albert at the Crossing Europe film festival in Linz, Austria, 2010
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NationalityAustrian
Occupation(s)Writer, director, and producer
Years active1991–present

Barbara Albert (born in Vienna) is an Austrian writer, film-producer and film-director.

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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). [1]

As of 2024, she is a professor of directing at the Vienna Film Academy. [2]

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. [3] [2]

Filmography

Prizes


  1. Hopewell, John (2024-03-04). "Seriesmakers' Second Edition Features New Projects From Kevin Macdonald, Kaouther Ben Hania, Mikko Myllylahti (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
  2. 1 2 Croll, Ben (2024-03-20). "Scotland's Kevin Macdonald, The Philippines' Erik Matti and Austria's Barbara Albert Take Top Seriesmakers Honors". Variety. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
  3. Lemercier, Fabien (2024-03-21). "SERIESMAKERS awards Kevin Macdonald, Erik Matti and Barbara Albert". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2024-03-28.

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