Graduate - Johanna Wagner - MFA Film Directing

 

Johanna Wagner graduated from eca in 2008 with an MA in Film Directing  and is currently completing her MFA in Film Directing. Her graduation film The Inner Shape a short documentary about Artist Joyce Gunn Cairns won a Bafta New Talent Award in April 2008.

 

In February 2010  Johanna's film “Peter in Radioland”  won the inaugural Best International Short Film Award at Glasgow Short Film Festival and screened at the highly acclaimed “Cinema du Reel” Festival in Paris.

 

Peter in Radioland continues to do extremely well screening in festivals around the world :

Berlin Screening 2010 MMX Open Art Venue
World Film Festival of Bangkok 2010
Cucalorus Film Festival 2010 (USA)
Dokufest (Kosovo) 2010
Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival 2010
Expresión en Corto International Film Festival 2010 (Mexico)
EBS International Documentary Film Festival (Korea)
Palm Springs Festival 2010
Film Palace Festival (Sofia - Bulgaria) 2010
LIDF 2010
Seattle FF 2010
Timishort Film Festival 2010
ZagrebDox 2010
Tiburon FF 2010
Nantucket Film Festival 2010
Hull IFF 2010: *winner of the Anthony Minghella Award for Best UK Short
Hot Docs 2010
Cinema du Reel
SXSW 2010
Glasgow FF
CPH:DOX 2009
Inverness FF
Dok Leipzig 2009: * nominated for Best New Talent Competition
Sheffield Docfest 2009
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009: *best Scottish documentary Award 2009 * nominated best European short film – European Film Academy

 

Screening as part of EFA showcase festival tour:

• Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia-Herzegovina (12. - 20.8.2009)
• Ghent International Film Festival, Belgium (6.-17.10.2009)
• 30th International Cinematographers’ Film Festival, Manaki Brothers, Bitoula, Macedonia (26.9-3 10. 2009)
• interfilm Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany (3.-8.11.2009)
• Seville European Film Festival, Spain (6.-14.11.2009)
• Sleepwalkers International Film Festival Tallinn, Estonia (12.-15.11.2009)
• Encounters Festival, Bristol/UK (17.-22.11.2009)
• Perth International Arts Festival, Australia (26.2.-28.2.2010)
• Malatya International Film Festival 2010 (Turkey)
• Nordisk Panorama (Bergen – Norway) 2010
• Girona Screening 2010 – A Sunday in the Country / Museu del Cinema
• Drama International Film Festival 2010 (Greece)
• Helsinki International Film Festival 201)