Anna Porzelt

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Anna Porzelt was born in Erlangen (Southern Germany) in 1983. Her very first reality-inspired novel was about a child being pushed around from one parent to another. Since it wasn't awarded at a competition, the preadolescent wrote an escapistic tome about horses in happiness. Due to its naivity concerning horses' reproduction it made at least laugh her elder sister.

The author decided not to give it to a bigger public and began to write shorter poems until she, 11 years old, could achieve a child role in Magnus Reitschusters play Unser Julius at the Theater Erlangen (1995).

Before ending secondary school she took part in several productions of drama groups as actress and assistant director before she founded her own groupe to stage plays by herself.
After a three month stay abroad at the residential school of Lycée Jean-Macé in Rennes (Bretagne, France) in 2000, she sold her clarinette in order to shoot her first experimental short Inspirator. In the same year she became a member of the Filmbüro Franken e.V., where she gained valuable experience.
For her graduation exam, Anna Porzelt directed the almost feature-length movie Vom Wunsch als Vater des Gedankens (67 min), which won several prices. After school she continued directing shorts (e.g. Puppen in 35mm Cinemascope), and worked in multiple productions as assistant director. Among others at the Theater Erlangen, such as Marc Pommerenings nationwide discussed staging of Hans Rehbergs Die Wölfe. Furthermore she continued acting for shorts as in Steffen Hornungs Ticket and learned very much from director Ben Verbong while working as video operator in the german cinema production Sams in Gefahr.

In October 2004 she began her studies of Film Directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, where she directed several shorts in coproduction with the SWR. Her shorts have been shown and awarded at international festivals and broadcasted in german television. In 2007/08 she intermitted her studies for passing a year in Paris, France. In this year she spent three months at the famous french film-school La Fémis and wrote the first versions of two screenplays (diploma and first feature). Since 2009 Anna Porzelt teches Camera Acting for students of Onstage Akademie für Schauspielkunst.

In February 2010 she ended her studies with the self-written short How I got to know my father (her second Co-production with SWR), that was nominated as best short for the Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis.

Anna Porzel is now writing her feature debut left behind.