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Julia Charakter
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Julia Charakter

BA Film | Screenwriting

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Author (a. o. ALJOSCHA UND DAS FEUER, UNBARMHERZIG)

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JULIA CHARAKTER born 1984 in Zhitomir, Ukraine | grew up in Dorsten, NRW | 2005 A-levels | 2003-2006 Editor for daily newspapers and magazines | 2005-2008 Bachelor studies in literature and media science at the University of Paderborn | 2007-2009 Internships at various film and TV productions | 2008-2012 Master studies in media science | 2010- 2011 world trip | 2009-2014 freelance TV editor | 2015-2018 BA Filml "Screenwriting" at ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln | 2016 VDD scholarship | 2017 scholarship "Into the Wild"-mentoring | 2018 documentary film "unbarbarmherzig" in the short film series "Next Generation / Short Tiger" at the Cannes Film Festival

Further Projects

Screenwriting & Directing

IKARUS
2018 | Feature Film

THE MALL
2018 | Series

RATH SELBST
2016 | Documentary Film | 29 min.

COLOR THE WORLD
2013 | Music Video | 5 min.

ERINNERUNG
2009 | Feature Film | 30 min.

HERR WENGERZINK
2008 | Documentary Film | 15 min.

Among the Mayans, the scribes were the saints who received the messages from heaven to write them down. The ancient Greeks believed in the divine muses who breathed artistic inspiration into them. Others say it rained imagination into them. I don't know where stories come from, but I see them everywhere. In my dreams, in the newspaper, on the street, inside me - stories are like ghosts I never called. But they are always there, as long as I can think. What has touched me once never lets me go. Good films are like stamps in our consciousness - and not infrequently they have changed or turned my life around. That's the kind of film you have to make.

Julia Charakter

Alumna, Author & Director

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