Cosima Dannoritzer (born May 22, 1965) is a documentary filmmaker and film producer, whose documentaries focus on science, technology, ecology and history. She became known internationally as the screenwriter and film director of the multi-award-winning documentary The Light Bulb conspiracy, which looks at the history and impact of planned obsolescence.
Cosima Dannoritzer studied English Literature, Film Studies und Theatre Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1987. In 1989, she obtained the Higher National Diploma in Film & TV Production from the Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design in England.[1]
Career
As a freelance and multi-lingual screenwriter and filmmaker (she speaks English, German, French, Spanish and Catalan), Dannoritzer has directed for Arte, the BBC, Channel 4, Radiotelevisión Española and Deutsche Welle TV.
In 1992, she directed a film about the reunification of East and West Berlin for Channel 4's Equinox slot. In 2001, she directed a series about Germany for the BBC.
Since 2011, her documentary The Light Bulb Conspiracy about planned obsolescence has been broadcast in more than a dozen countries,[2] including on Arte,[3]Phoenix[4] and RTVE.[5] The film was also screened as a Side Event during the Green Week of the European Commission in 2011.[6]
Her documentary The E-Waste Tragedy was screened in 2015 at Interpol in Lyon during CWIT, an international conference addressing the problem of illegal e-waste exports.[7]
Filmography
Documentaries
Allergy Alert: Paranoia in our Immune System (Allergien – wenn der Körper rebelliert; Un Monde d'allergiques), 52 min. (2021)[8]
Megafires (Megafeuer: Der Planet brennt; Incendies géants: enquête sur un nouveau fléau), 90 min. (2019)[9][10][11]
Time Thieves (Zeit ist Geld; Le temps c'est de l'argent; Ladrones de tiempo), 85 min. (2018)[12][13][14][15]
The E-Waste Tragedy (Giftige Geschäfte – Der Elektromüllskandal; La tragédie électronique), 86 min. (2014)[16][17][18]
Cosima Dannoritzer has received numerous international awards for her documentaries.[1]
2020: "Best Environmental Documentary", RushDoc Film Festival for Megafires[23]
2019: "Best International TV Production", DocsBarcelona[24] and "Best Editing", United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF), USA,[25] for Time Thieves
2015: Golden Award / Prix Italia for The E-Waste Tragedy[26]
2010–2013: Eleven international festival awards for The Light Bulb Conspiracy,[27] including "Best Documentary" at the Spanish Television Academy Awards (2011)[2] and the Hoimar-von-Ditfurth-Prize for "Best journalistic achievement" (Deutsche Umwelthilfe, 2013)[28]
1993: "Journalism Prize" of the German-British Society for Rebuilding Berlin[29]
↑ Press release of the German Embassy in London, 23 Belgrave Square, on March 25, 1993: Lord Croham, Chairman of the Anglo-German Foundation, announced during the Königswinter Conference the winners of the Journalism Award for 1993: Reinhard Häcker (Stuttgarter Zeitung) and Edmund Fawcett (The Economist); the Electronic Media Prize was awarded to film director Cosima Dannoritzer.
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