Annekathrin Wetzel
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Annekathrin Wetzel is a female director in Europe specializing in stereoscopic 3D movies as well as S3D VR Experiences,
who has gained numerous awards. She produced over 30 documentaries and docufiction films for television, as well as 9 short films.
Originally from Germany, Wetzel migrated to Australia in 1990, where she studied Performing Arts at the Collingwood TAFE in Melbourne and directing at the VCA School of Film and Television at Melbourne University.
After graduating she started as a freelance writer/director in Australia making several independent short films. One noticeable film of that time is A Kiss in Darlinghurst (1996) which deals with the underworld of drugs, prostitution and homelessness in Sidney Darlinghurst, for which she won best original screenplay at the Sydney Film Festival.
In 1998 Wetzel returned to Germany and started working for the German television network ARD. Three years later in 2001 she started her own production company Miriquidi Film.
Wetzel went on producing and directing different TV-features, such as "Always ready! - 100 years of boy scout movement". The 30min documentary "My child is a Neonazi - Rebellious kids and their helpless parents" tells the stories of two families in the east and the west, whose kids drifted into the Neonazi movement in Germany, which was chosen by the ministry of education to be shown at all schools in Germany. Wetzels first German short Der weiße Hirsch (2002) (The White Deer) about loss and finding your roots, won 2. Prize at the Leipzig Film Festival. (Leipziger Film Festival)
In 2014 Wetzel produced and directed the short film Call Her Lotte (2014) (Call Her Lotte!) in cooperation with national broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk, the film fund FFF Bayern and the SLM cultural film fund and supported by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. It is the world's first Third Reich drama that was shot in 3D. From its conception the film was produced as a cross media project with an interactive experience for museums and a virtual reality game in order to get younger audiences interested. The impressive short film tells the story of a deep friendship between a Jewish and a Catholic girl under the terrors of Hitler's dictatorship. This friendship saved the life of a child. Today that child, which was saved, is still alive and a famous eyewitness: Prof. Dr. hc. Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Jewish community of Munich and upper Bavaria and former President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
Annekathrin Wetzel has taken additional steps in education at the London Film School (LFS) and trained with veteran directors and dramatic advisors like Keith Cunningham and Jonas Grimas. She was named project partner of the tri-media-project Cinema by the Department of Strategy and Innovation Management at the German broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk, where she is develops new transmedia projects. She is also a co-founder and board member at the Bavarian Transmedia Network, which was founded in January 2013.
Originally from Germany, Wetzel migrated to Australia in 1990, where she studied Performing Arts at the Collingwood TAFE in Melbourne and directing at the VCA School of Film and Television at Melbourne University.
After graduating she started as a freelance writer/director in Australia making several independent short films. One noticeable film of that time is A Kiss in Darlinghurst (1996) which deals with the underworld of drugs, prostitution and homelessness in Sidney Darlinghurst, for which she won best original screenplay at the Sydney Film Festival.
In 1998 Wetzel returned to Germany and started working for the German television network ARD. Three years later in 2001 she started her own production company Miriquidi Film.
Wetzel went on producing and directing different TV-features, such as "Always ready! - 100 years of boy scout movement". The 30min documentary "My child is a Neonazi - Rebellious kids and their helpless parents" tells the stories of two families in the east and the west, whose kids drifted into the Neonazi movement in Germany, which was chosen by the ministry of education to be shown at all schools in Germany. Wetzels first German short Der weiße Hirsch (2002) (The White Deer) about loss and finding your roots, won 2. Prize at the Leipzig Film Festival. (Leipziger Film Festival)
In 2014 Wetzel produced and directed the short film Call Her Lotte (2014) (Call Her Lotte!) in cooperation with national broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk, the film fund FFF Bayern and the SLM cultural film fund and supported by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. It is the world's first Third Reich drama that was shot in 3D. From its conception the film was produced as a cross media project with an interactive experience for museums and a virtual reality game in order to get younger audiences interested. The impressive short film tells the story of a deep friendship between a Jewish and a Catholic girl under the terrors of Hitler's dictatorship. This friendship saved the life of a child. Today that child, which was saved, is still alive and a famous eyewitness: Prof. Dr. hc. Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Jewish community of Munich and upper Bavaria and former President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
Annekathrin Wetzel has taken additional steps in education at the London Film School (LFS) and trained with veteran directors and dramatic advisors like Keith Cunningham and Jonas Grimas. She was named project partner of the tri-media-project Cinema by the Department of Strategy and Innovation Management at the German broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk, where she is develops new transmedia projects. She is also a co-founder and board member at the Bavarian Transmedia Network, which was founded in January 2013.
