We are happy to welcome filmmaker LENA LEONHARDT to our agency.  She studied at the Film University in Baden-Württemberg and at Ryerson University Toronto. With her graduation work HUNDESOLDATEN she won the Grimme Award in 2017, one prize of many to come in the following years to make her mark as an outstanding young filmmaker with a particular eye for documentary storytelling. Lena is currently working on SOERING, a Netflix True Crime Documentary.

SNOW AND THE BEAR by Selcen Ergun received multiple awards and nominations after an international festival tour and the most recent recognition is the CINEUROPA AWARD at the Brussels Mediterranean Film Festival 2022. ‘Snow and The Bear is a film that possesses a subtle subversive side. A movie that introduces us to an unlikely heroine, with a keen eye and giving an icy performance. The film is a metaphor for life under surveillance, which is a reality for women all over the world, where violence has become increasingly systematic and unpunished.’ We also congratulate Çiçek Kahraman for receiving the BEST EDIT AWARD at the Bosphorus Film Festival for SNOW AND THE BEAR.  

Andrew Bird’s long time collaboration with filmmaker Fatih Akin has its latest release of the feature film RHEINGOLD portraying the path of Giwar Hajabi — better known as Xatar — from the ghetto to the top of the music charts. In the mid-1980s, from the hell of an Iraqi prison, Giwar comes to Germany as a young boy with his family and lands at the very bottom. In no time, Giwar goes from petty criminal to big-time dealer—but then a shipment goes missing. To settle his debt with the cartel, he plans a legendary gold heist. After an extraordinary cinema release in Germany, the film was also shown at the Marrakech Film Festival.

We are happy to welcome Director Andre Hörmann. He is a multi-awarded filmmaker with a particular dedication to documentary work and based both, in Munich and Los Angeles. His feature film NACHTWALD is a family adventure and will be released in German cinemas on 24 November 2022. It was a Vizard Europe cooperation with Cinematographer MICHAEL HAMMON and Editor VINCENT ASSMANN.