Education | Lisa Wagner studied Film and Media Sciences, Pedagogy and French (M.A.) in Germany, Italy, France and Canada. In 2011, she started postgraduate fictional and non-fictional directing-classes at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. She is working as a freelance filmmaker developing her own documentary projects for cinema and German TV.
She is co-author of the award-winning documentary Out of the Darkness (2011, 82 min, FBW Prädikat "Besonders wertvoll”), which was her first feature documentary shot in extreme conditions. Her Debut "Fritsch's Pfusch", feature cinema documentary about the renowned theatre director Herbert Fritsch, was screened at the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Dokfest Munich and Achtung Berlin. Currently, Lisa finished her feature cinema documentary "Dancing Heartbeats", sponsored by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, WDR, BKM, FFA, DFFF. |