Biography

Beatrice is an award-winning filmmaker and director based in Berlin, with years of experience as both producer and director. She spent a major part of her childhood in South Africa before going back to Germany to study film at the Bauhaus University in Weimar.

The search for truthfulness and authenticity is a guideline in her work. Her curiosity and openness make it easy to connect, and have inspired a huge variety of protagonists to tell their stories in front of a camera. Beatrice meets the individual challenges of every project by working with various partners for shoots and production. She is also teaching at the TU-Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin) and enjoys to share her experience with new filmmakers.

ABROAD EXPERIENCE

1999 Internships in Johannesburg and Capetown / South Africa
2004 Visual Communication, Master class Swinburne University National School of Design in Melbourne/ Australia
2006 DAAD Artist Scholarship in Capetown/ South Africa
Shooting films in: South Africa, Istanbul(Turkey), Bali,Thailand, Israel, Palestine, Italy, Slovenia, Namibia, Moçambique, Eritrea, Botswana

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

SS 2016 Hochschule Mittweida
SS 2017 Bauhaus Universität Weimar / guest lecturer
WS 2018 Bauhaus Universität Weimar / guest lecturer / "Gestaltung/ FIlm". Exploring different documentary styles producing a film portrait
2022/23 Technische Universität Berlin /Institut Architektur/guest lecturer in the project: stubborn places by Prof. Stefanie Bürkle
WS 2023 University of Applied Science Graubünden (Switzerland)/guest lecturer