“I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them. Not necessarily the way they happened.”
Beach Malahide
© Julia Geiß
Marta Malowanczyk is a Berlin-based filmmaker born in Gdansk.
She escaped communist Poland as a young girl with her family (via Sweden) to Bremen, Germany. Later she studied Film & TV Directing, Graphic Design and New Media at the Academy of Art and Design Kassel.
A fire was lit as a teenager watching the tv series Twin Peaks, opening her eyes up to the possibilities of film. In 2002 she started her film production platform Nervous Pet Pictures with her first short films Über Rusbad (Super-8/16mm), Der Nachtportier and Fünf (Tomato Global Workshop 2003), having completed an internship at the renowned Camera Rental Studio Hamburg.
She graduated with honours with her feature film Marla, which was nominated for the first steps award 2007, the renowned German newcomer award for final degree student films. Marla was awarded international prizes such as the Golden Hercules at the Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival 2007, the Independent Student Platinum Remi Award at the WorldFest Houston (USA) 2008, plus the seal of approval: Prädikat Wertvoll from the German Film & Media Review Institution Wiesbaden.
In 2007 Marta moved to her now beloved Berlin. Here she started as an assistant director and editor in different film and TV genres and formats. She continues her work as a director.
Currently, her work features in the mediaartbase.de archive of the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe.
Marta is currently developing her debut feature film.
Film Prizes & Screenings (selection)
MARLA (2007) graduation feature
MOBILE CULTURAL ASSETS 2011 mediaartbase.de archive, Center for Art and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe
SEAL OF APPROVAL: HIGHLEY RECOMMENDED (PRÄDIKAT WERTVOLL)
INDEPENDENT STUDENT PLATINUM REMI AWARD 2008, Annual Worldfest Houston, Texas (US) / Int. Film & Video Festival
GOLDEN HERCULES 2007, 24th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
05 (2004) Short Film as part of the Tomato Global Workshop
HONORABLE MENTION - BEST SHORT FILM 2005, Festival of Nations / Austria
Nominations (selection)
MARLA (2007) graduation feature
BEST NEWCOMER FICTION FILM 2008, SehSüchte - Int. Student Filmfestival Potsdam-Babelsberg
HESSIAN FILM AWARD 2007 for Best Student Film
SUGGESTION FOR GERMAN SHORT FILM SPECIAL AWARD 2007
05 (2004) Short Film as part of the Tomato Global Workshop
BEST SHORT FILM - Independent Days Karlsruhe 2005
BEST SHORT FILM - Independent Media Festival Tübingen 2005
BEST SHORT FILM - Werkstatt für junge Filmer Wiesbaden 2005
GOLDEN HERCULES 2004 - Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival