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Sylke Rene Meyer | Filmmaker

Sylke Rene Meyer | © Privat
Sylke Rene Meyer | © Privat
1970
Born in Ostberlin
1999
Mona d’Oro Audience Award for La petite mort
2000
INTERNATIONAL EMMY AWARDS – best screenplay (Ustinov Award) for Who is Anna Walentynowicz? (later: Strajk)
2000
Tankred Dorst Award
Who is Anna Walentynowicz? (later: Strajk)
2003
Certificate of excellence for Who is Anna Walentynowicz? BANFF Montreal
2007
Silver Gryphon Award 37th Children’s Film Festival Giffoni for Filiz in Flight (best Film)
2008
10th Annual BAMkids Film Festival of the Brooklyn Academy of Music for Filiz in Flight (best Film)
2011
Independent Film Quarterly Film & Media Festival, Maps of Manifold / The True and Local Solar Time (screenplay award)
2012
Best Screenplay Winner at Independent Filmmakers Showcase Film Festival, Maps of Manifold / The True and Local Solar Time (screenplay award)
Today
Lives and works in Berlin, Los Angeles and Köln

Sylke studied theater, philosophy and law at the Free University of Berlin. After graduating from law school, she studied screenwriting and dramaturgy at the Konrad Wolf Potsdam-Babelsberg Film and Television University and graduated from the Munich Screenplay Workshop at the University of Television and Film Munich in 2000. She has been Assistant Director to Judith Malina at the Living Theater and worked as a film editor, production designer, writer and director in New York, Los Angeles and Paris. Since 2008 she has divided her time between Berlin, Los Angeles and Cologne as a writer, director and professor for screenwriting and dramaturgy.

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