Festivals & Awards
2022
Flickerfest
Filmfest Dresden
Hamburg Short Film Festival
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Filmmaker and music producer Brenda Lien´s works have screened at film festivals worldwide (Berlinale Shorts, ISFF Oberhausen, Aspen SF and Uppsala ISFF) and received multiple awards. “Call of Cuteness” was on the long list for the “Short Animation”-Oscars 2018 and in 2018 “Call of Comfort” won the German Short Film Award. In 2019 she was invited to the Berlinale Talents Campus and in 2020 she received Hessen´s Newcomer Award. Her graduation film “First Work, Then Play” was awarded the Filmfund Prize Saxony at Filmfest Dresden 2022. The recent graduate at the University of Art and Design Offenbach is currently developing her first feature script and preparing an album release.
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Director: Brenda Lien
filmmaker's profileStuck between high performance-pressure and negative self-talk we follow young music-producer Maxi´s path into madness. Her passion has become a profession, leading to a self-destructive downward-spiral. Is she chasing her dreams or chasing herself?
Duration: 20 min.
Country: Germany
Language: English
Year: 2022
Genre: Animation, Experimental, Fiction (Drama)
Topic: Adult, Art, Capitalism, Consumerism, Crisis, Discrimination, Dream, Drugs, Economic status, Every Day Life, Experimental, Feminism, Health, Horror, Internet, Loneliness, Media, Mental Health, Music, Obsession, Patriarchy, Philosophy, Poverty, Racism, Social, Struggle, Trauma, Women, Work
Director: Brenda Lien
Producer: Brenda Lien & Seemab Gul
Writer: Brenda Lien
Cinematographer: Dubravka Kurobasa
Editor: Brenda Lien, Andrea Grumbt, Kira König
Actors: Anthonette Olaleye Annelle Olaleye Lona Culmer-Schellbach
Distributor Company: Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg
Flickerfest
Filmfest Dresden
Hamburg Short Film Festival