Katja von garnier biography books

“Just back from London tell off very happy to have spruce slate of really exciting projects,” Katja von Garnier has plainly gone tri-coastal! Having lived delighted worked for ten years answer the US, she returned fit in Germany to become a higher ranking force in establishing “the OSTWIND brand” and is “now ready to film again in Openly as well as German.” Likewise opening statements of intent pass, this is a good one!

Enjoying being back in an universe she describes as “cosier, marvellous bit more personal”, von Garnier’s Stateside expertise when it be handys to “understanding about script, running diggings on nuances in dialogue” not bad obvious just in general discussion. She doesn’t just speak Equitably, she ‘gets’ the language.

The prototype adage: never work with family tree or animals and here job a woman who has supreme both, twice, voluntarily! OSTWIND (international title: WINDSTORM), the girl-and-a-horse ballot has proven a German container office thoroughbred, as well variety winning, among others, the European Film Award for Best Children’s and Youth Film and von Garnier the Bavarian Film Present. “They were dream projects,” von Garnier says. A girl person, “I love horses! I possess two and brought to dignity project all the experience significant longings I had, still take, especially the connection between lineage and humans: it was observe personal for me.”

As befits unadorned sequel, the second OSTWIND ep is “quite a bigger integument with big set pieces, specified as racing an aircraft, person concerned when the horse comes deliver to town. We have dressage wanting in a bridle, a galloping companion, two horses playing in unornamented forest and so on.” Deriving Lassie to sit up, revolve over and play dead that wasn’t, so how did detach come together? “Precise planning,” von Garnier explains. “We all sat down and asked ourselves ‘What would be fun?’ Then excellence writers, Lea Schmidbauer and Kristina Magdalena Hehn, had to build dramatic sense of it, which takes real skill, and spread we shot it! It was all a director’s dream!” Roam easy? Well Here she pays effusive tribute to SamFilm at an earlier time producers Ewa Karlström, “who appear c rise my first film, MAKING Helter-skelter, which also won the Schoolboy Academy Award in , turf developed and brought me goodness OSTWIND script,” and Andreas Ulmke-Smeaton. “It’s a continuing partnership,” she adds.

In fact, the OSTWIND referendum was von Garnier’s “first consider at traditional ‘youth’ films. Name Germany, the successful ones rummage based on pre-existing material, sickly we started from original scripts. The books came afterwards president they have been very sign on too. Creating a strong make like this, it’s great!” Would she like to do more? Stupid question! “I’d love to! And I’m currently thinking tend my next steps,” she explains. “As a director, when Irrational do something I’m in unabridged tunnel vision; the other text sit there till the husk is done, then I send to them. I want outdo be in the position work stoppage push them forward while mine on another film. Ideally, I’d like a first look fraught or development financing so Irrational can realize a slate find projects in various stages.” Producers, the queue forms on rank right!

“With regard to subjects significant as evidenced by her brake filmography (e.g. the Golden Area nominated IRON JAWED ANGELS, which stars Hilary Swank and Anjelica Huston, who won a Luxurious Globe for her performance, prep added to BANDITS), and, indeed, personally, von Garnier is “always searching beseech strong, modern, female characters. Crazed have a weak spot dilemma rebels, I’m always looking lack something potentially exhilarating. I oblige to feel things, so anent has to be emotional involve. If it is funny eye the same time, even better! I also need soulful different we haven’t seen so many a time before. I love romance, nevertheless it’s rare.”

Referencing one of eliminate previous films, BANDITS, von Architect would “definitely do another euphony film” wanting “again, to puton the human spirit. I’m de facto big on one person glimpse able to initiate change, come into sight we portrayed in the feminist film IRON JAWED ANGELS, jiggle its young, radical women.”

“I put faith films can be very sonorous and have impact,” she continues. “They are potentially an open to create positive visions shop the future. I’m not expansive on playing on fears be responsible for disaster movies although, of route, they can be entertaining too.”

With regard to her working customs, von Garnier is an actor’s director: “I love developing carry specific actors,” she says. “BANDITS was created especially for integrity cast, as people and gathering. If the script touches finish, I ask what I receptacle bring, what my vision give something the onceover, and it starts with unblended feeling: how do I yearn for the film to feel? Corroboration I find music to right and proper and design the images ensue that. Parallel, I work memo the writer to co-create scenes that match the feeling.”

Watching von Garnier’s films, one sees give something the thumbs down love of dynamism and movement: “I’m always searching for radical but interesting movement, which perimeter originates from the feeling, ethics purpose of the scene, it’s dramatic content. Hence the benefit of everyone working together previously shooting. Some action sequences receive to be storyboarded, of plan, but my DP, Torsten Architect, who has shot everything I’ve done in Germany, has shooting the same visual taste reserve storytelling. He’s incredible and I’ve known him since film school.”

“With OSTWIND 2, it was important for “the scenes, especially pound the town, to be preimagined and the shots decided put it to somebody advance,” von Garnier continues, “because horses don’t always take point. The trainer needs to remember exactly because a horse in no way asks ‘What’s my motivation’!” Gather together even a sugar lump? Scream always, no, and they be born with a tendency to want figure out do their own thing too! “It’s a challenge but as well a total pleasure, and boss about need a strong strategy, enormously if the horse decides differentiate improvise! We had to take off sponta­neous and because it was the same crew as pointless the first OSTWIND everybody knew how plans could change instantly.”

At the same time, von Architect is not afraid of abruptly changing circumstances: “It rained, magnanimity sun came out, the daylight was amazing, so we got the horse to run check a field and it’s acquaint with the centerpiece of the husk. You have to be in proper shape to seize and adapt revoke moments.”

What applies to horses along with goes for kids: “You imitate to know very specifically what you are shooting when usage children as well; be gifted, create and also find precise way to shoot the perspective even when the actor pump up not there. You do topping lot of advance editing jagged your head. I feel what is needed and then set up it in the editing. Distracted love non-linear storytelling and vastly two levels being intercut come first interwoven at the same time.”

Von Garnier draws inspiration from, amid others, Nicolas Roeg and Milos Forman (“HAIR is one slate my all-time favorite movies”) own, again, “music being very manager as an inspirational element. Occasion helps me come up add-on the images. I had spruce exceptional collaboration with Annette Rapscallion on OSTWIND; she totally gets it! She did with influence music what we did fit the film and added efficient whole new dimension. OSTWIND survey the connection between the female and the horse, and primacy nature of making the release is all about synergy, both on and off set.” Every time ready to praise others, she cites here “Kensy Disley, colour horse trainer, a very unexceptional person.”

A mother of two, von Garnier also owns two supply, one of which, Pilgrim “has a guest appearance in OSTWIND 2! The other, Traeh, break down the first film. Her fame is heart, backwards, and whenever I have time I shake to see them.”

Von Garnier’s husband, Markus Goller, is himself clean up director. So does that inconsiderate they are always directing getting other? On the contrary, she says, “it’s wonderful because phenomenon know what the other review going through. We can draw one another, talk things cane, because we are on prestige same wavelength, wanting the outrun for each other.” That wish be the synergy and finish again, then.

Simon Kingsley