Christine A. Maier – Career Award #BFFB36

April 21, 2023

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Christine A. Maier, guest of honor at the 36th edition of the Bolzano Film Festival.

At the 36th Bolzano Film Festival – Bozen directed by Vincenzo Bugno, Austrian cinematographer Christina A.Mayer is the guest of honor at this year’s edition and just received a career award from the Festival for her outstanding contribution in films like Quo Vadis, Aida? and Licht by Barbara Albert. Mayer talks about when she first became interested in cinema in her childhood years and then cinematography, when the women DOPs were only two. The cinematographer who’s also a professor, talks about how the number of women cinematographers has increased in the last 10 years as a result that things in equality and representation are effectively changing.

Christine A. Maier’s cinematography has been featured in films by Henner Winckler, Amie Siegel, Jamie Babbit, Barbara Albert and Jasmila Žbanić, whose film Grbavica won the Golden Bear at Berlinale in 2006. Quo Vadis, Aida?, her recent cooperation with Žbanić, won the European Film Award for Best Film 2021 and was nominated for the International Feature Film category of the 2021 OSCARs and BAFTAs. She received the Austrian Film Award for Best Cinematography 2021 and the German Camera Award 2021 for Quo Vadis, Aida? She got the Austrian Film Award 2018 for Mademoiselle Paradis and was nominated 2019 for the Austrian Film Award for Life Guidance. 2021 she became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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