KATHARINA KEIL

AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR

Filmography

Waves (2022) is a sweet and sardonic two-minute short about a pair of old friends, Sam and Ethel, who reconnect over a drinking game at their local beach.

Awards

Best Super Short - Cannes World Film Festival

Best Director Super Short Film - Cannes World Film Festival

Best Acting Duo - Cannes World Film Festival

Best Director - Brussels Short Film Festival

Best Cinematography in a Short Film - LA Cinematography Awards

Best Editing in a Short Film - LA Cinematography Awards

Best Cheery Film - Short Film Factory

Best Short Form Short Film - Feedback Female Film Festival

Best Script - Stockholm Short Festival

Official Selections

Uppsala Short Film Festival 2023

32nd Flickerfest International Short Film Festival 2023

CinefestOz Film Festival 2023

Berlin Lift Off Finalist 2023

Finalist Mirada Corta 2024

Finalist Short Filmz 2023

LA Comedy 365 2023

Berlin Indie Film Festival 2023

Semi Finalist Cannes Indie Shorts Awards 2023

Semi Finalist Tokyo Shorts 2023

Semi Finalist NY International Women Festival

Sydney Lift Off 2022

Danger Spot (2004) is about a date to find the perfect spot to 'do it'. My first short film shot on Super 16 with an entire professional crew.

Official Selection

Tropfest Best of the Rest 2004 (Top 50 of 760)

Sweetest Ride (1998) started as a joke about a gambler in Las Vegas. It was entered at Tropfest 1998. Shot entirely with friends on DV8.


Hackfleisch (1997) is about Norman preparing dinner for his mother. Her favourite is mince. This 3 -minute film was shot entirely on short ends.

Film Markets Toronto

Sold to Canal+ France & Benelux Countries for the purpose of a special programming in honour of Hitchcock’s 100th birthday.

Official Selection

Brisbane Schlock Film Festival 1997

Horror Video Festivals in Australia and Germany

Walk on the Wild Side (1997) is the true story of a friend who worked as a 17 year old part-time in a sex shop in Rockhampton. Her family and friends had the wildest imagination what happens in such a shop, while she was bored to tears. Co-Writer Robyn Evans.

Official Selection

Finalist Fast Film Competition - Brisbane Film Festival 1997

The Day of the Rat (1996) is about a young woman with low self-esteem who places far too much trust into tarot cards and Chinese astrology to find love. It was one of the finalists for the Fast Film Competition at the Brisbane International Film Festival.

Official Selection

Finalist Fast Film Competition - Brisbane Film Festival 1996


EDUCATION

1990-1993 Bachelor of Screen Production - Griffith University

1994 George Whaley Director’s Workshop - AFTRS

1997 Linda Davies Acting Class for Directors - AFTRS

2012 Producing Animation - AFTRS

2013 Writing for TV - AFTRS

2020 A-Z Budgeting - AFTRS


TV, Film & Theatre CREDITED ROLES

2022 “Last Days of the Space Age” - Ep.8 Angela Meyer

2021 “Total Control” Series 2 - Ep.4 Australian Electorate Officer

2020 “Les Norton” - Ep.5 Sunbather

2003 “White Collar Blue” Series 2 - Ep.22 Kiki

1998 “Waste” Feature - Sperm Donor Nurse

1988 “Blythe Spirit” Brisbane Theatre Group - Edith the Maid

1985-1986 “Das Alte Land” Staatstheater Darmstadt, Germany - Young Daughter

1980-1984 Actor in an amateur Theatre Group Germany “Die Sandbach Mimen”

1982-1984 Actor in Theatre Group at Viktoria Schule (High School Germany)