ABOUT ME
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Austrian documentary filmmaker whose films mostly deal with worlds separated by intangible borders, be they geographical or those of imagination or loss. With a passion for hybrid documentaries, mood boards and found footage material that begins to tell a new story.
After studying at the European Film College in Denmark, Clara Trischler lived in Israel for a year, where she worked at the Yad Vashem Holocaust documentation archive, participated in films and film festivals, wrote articles about everyday life in Jerusalem and later shot her film “The First Sea”. After several film and festival jobs in Berlin and New York, she studied screenwriting at the Vienna Film Academy and the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte Buenos Aires, where she rediscovered her love of documentary film (which began with Hi8 camera experiments as a teenager). This led her to Berlin, where she studied documentary film directing at the Konrad Wolf Film University in Babelsberg. She has received several grants, is co-curator of the feminist film forum “Feminist Perspectives” in Vienna and has been invited to various residencies and programs (most recently Berlinale Talents, Visits to Ukraine for international artists, Multimadeira).
After studying at the European Film College in Denmark, Clara Trischler lived in Israel for a year, where she worked at the Yad Vashem Holocaust documentation archive, participated in films and film festivals, wrote articles about everyday life in Jerusalem and later shot her film “The First Sea”. After several film and festival jobs in Berlin and New York, she studied screenwriting at the Vienna Film Academy and the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte Buenos Aires, where she rediscovered her love of documentary film (which began with Hi8 camera experiments as a teenager). This led her to Berlin, where she studied documentary film directing at the Konrad Wolf Film University in Babelsberg. She has received several grants, is co-curator of the feminist film forum “Feminist Perspectives” in Vienna and has been invited to various residencies and programs (most recently Berlinale Talents, Visits to Ukraine for international artists, Multimadeira).
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2023/24 FC Gloria Mentoring Program Mentee of Nathalie Borgers • Women* Film Network of the Austrian Film Industry
2023 Selected for Visits to Ukraine for international artists as visual artist • Insha Osvita, Prague Civil Society Center, Asortymentna kimnata, photo produkciia
2023 Lecturer of a documentary film workshop • University of Vienna, Department of Romance Languages
2022 Lecturer of a documentary film workshop • „Don’t mess with my rights“ - Equatorial Guinean & Austrian teens make a short together remotely
2021-2022 Fellowship Pixel, Bytes + Film Artist in Residence • Austrian Ministry of Culture & ORF III
2018-2022 Lecturer of documentary film workshops • Cinema en Curs
2019 Selected for Cinema Next - Europe Club • Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz
2018 ScriptLAB Docu Grant for „PARAÍSOS“ • Drehbuchforum Wien
2018 Participation at DOX:ACADEMY • CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 „Start“-Scholarship for Young Film Artists • Austrian Cultural Ministery
2016 Best documentary short for „Home is not a place“ • Diagonale. Festival of Austrian Film
2015 Screenwriting grant for „Meerhaut“ („Sea skin“) • Literar Mechana. Collecting society for literature
2015 Public screenplay reading with „Meerhaut“ („Sea skin“) • Austrian Actors Association VÖFS, Drehbuchforum Wien
2014 Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award for Best Short/Midlength Screenplay for „Tuppern“ • drehbuchVERBAND Austria
2013 Honorable mention at Best short film competition for „Tuppern“ • Diagonale. Festival of Austrian Film
2014 Best Human/Cultural Film for „The First Sea“ • Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival, Arizona, USA
2011 Participation at the Feature Film Project Development and Production Workshop at Festival de Cannes as well as International Film Festival Rotterdam • BABYLON • Filmfonds Wien • Scenario Films UK
2010/11 Selected for the one-year screenplay development workshop „Diverse Geschichten - Drehbücher zwischen den Kulturen“ • witcraft Szenario
2010 Scholarship „Perspective Austrian Newcomer Filmmaker“ • Youki. International Youth Media Festival, Drehbuchforum Wien
2010 Honorable mention spec_script Award • film:riss. festival of Austrian student film culture
2023 Selected for Visits to Ukraine for international artists as visual artist • Insha Osvita, Prague Civil Society Center, Asortymentna kimnata, photo produkciia
2023 Lecturer of a documentary film workshop • University of Vienna, Department of Romance Languages
2022 Lecturer of a documentary film workshop • „Don’t mess with my rights“ - Equatorial Guinean & Austrian teens make a short together remotely
2021-2022 Fellowship Pixel, Bytes + Film Artist in Residence • Austrian Ministry of Culture & ORF III
2018-2022 Lecturer of documentary film workshops • Cinema en Curs
2019 Selected for Cinema Next - Europe Club • Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz
2018 ScriptLAB Docu Grant for „PARAÍSOS“ • Drehbuchforum Wien
2018 Participation at DOX:ACADEMY • CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 „Start“-Scholarship for Young Film Artists • Austrian Cultural Ministery
2016 Best documentary short for „Home is not a place“ • Diagonale. Festival of Austrian Film
2015 Screenwriting grant for „Meerhaut“ („Sea skin“) • Literar Mechana. Collecting society for literature
2015 Public screenplay reading with „Meerhaut“ („Sea skin“) • Austrian Actors Association VÖFS, Drehbuchforum Wien
2014 Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award for Best Short/Midlength Screenplay for „Tuppern“ • drehbuchVERBAND Austria
2013 Honorable mention at Best short film competition for „Tuppern“ • Diagonale. Festival of Austrian Film
2014 Best Human/Cultural Film for „The First Sea“ • Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival, Arizona, USA
2011 Participation at the Feature Film Project Development and Production Workshop at Festival de Cannes as well as International Film Festival Rotterdam • BABYLON • Filmfonds Wien • Scenario Films UK
2010/11 Selected for the one-year screenplay development workshop „Diverse Geschichten - Drehbücher zwischen den Kulturen“ • witcraft Szenario
2010 Scholarship „Perspective Austrian Newcomer Filmmaker“ • Youki. International Youth Media Festival, Drehbuchforum Wien
2010 Honorable mention spec_script Award • film:riss. festival of Austrian student film culture