Carla B. Guttmann

Carla B. Guttmann is a Canadian-German writer and director from Montreal, Canada. In 2004, she moved to Germany after winning a Fqrnt provincial scholarship from Quebec to study filmmaking abroad. She is a graduate of Brown University in Fine Arts and Semiotics (BA, Phi Beta Kappa), the Bauhaus University in Weimar (MFA, Media Design), and the Filmhaus Babelsberg where she completed a ten-month screenwriting program under the dramaturgs Roland Zag and Nicole Kellerhals (X-Filme). She is active as a director in English, French, German and soon Swedish, and is blessed with passports that enable her to work in the EU, Canada and the US.

Her films have been screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, Fresh Film Fest Karlovy Vary, Los Angeles Short Film Festival, San Diego International Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Sarasota International Film Festival, Boulder International Film Festival, Sacramento International Film Festival, International Festival of Cinema and Technology, Ohio Film Festival, Solothurner Filmtage, KAN Film Festival, and Krakow Film Festival.

Her awards include "Best Short Film" at the Ohio Film Festival 2007, the "Visual Innovation Award" nomination at the International Festival of Cinema and Technology 2007, and the best "Lockdown film of 2020" by Film Daddy. She has also won grants from Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec (CALQ), the National Film Board of Canada, the Fonds de Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT), AG-Kurzfilm and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD).

In 2019, she became a member of the German Directors Guild (BVR) and Pro Quote Film which seeks to create equity in the German film industry for women.

Carla's aim as a writer and director is to create complex and pioneering roles for women, across all ages, in both film and television. Her mission is to leave a legacy of authentic and candid representations of women onscreen behind who make no excuses for their layered identity.