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Angelina Maccarone is a German film director and writer. She is known for making movies and documentaries.
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About Angelina Maccarone
Angelina Maccarone was born in Pulheim, Germany, in 1965. Her parents moved to Germany in the 1960s. Before she started making films, Angelina wanted to be a musician. When she was 14, she played the electric guitar and wrote song lyrics. In 1985, she went to the University of Hamburg. There, she studied German and American topics.
Today, Angelina Maccarone lives in Berlin.
Her Film Career
Angelina Maccarone began writing movie scripts in 1992. That same year, she won an award from the Hamburg Department of Culture for a script idea. This was the start of her film career.
In 1995, Maccarone wrote the final script for a movie called Is Mausi Coming Out?. This was her first time directing a film, and she was nominated for an award called the Telestar award.
In 1998, she made another film, Everything Will Be Fine (also known as Alles wird gut). This movie won Audience Awards in many cities, like Los Angeles and Toronto.
In 2005, Maccarone's film Fremde Haut was released. It tells the story of a woman seeking a new life in Germany and exploring her identity. This film won several awards, including the Jury Grand Prize at the International LGBT Festival in Montreal and the Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Seattle L & G Film Festival.
The next year, Maccarone directed Verfolgt, which was made in Hamburg. In 2011, she wrote and directed a documentary called Charlotte Rampling: The Look. This film shares the life story of British actress Charlotte Rampling. It shows her career and thoughts through different conversations. The documentary was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011.
Movies and Films She Made
- Is Mausi Coming Out?, 1995
- Everything Will Be Fine, 1998
- An Angel's Revenge, 1998
- Fremde Haut (Unveiled), 2005
- Verfolgt (Hounded), 2006
- Tatort: Wem Ehre gebührt, 2007
- Vivere, 2007
- Ein Mann, ein Fjord!, 2009
- The Look, 2011
- Polizeiruf 110: Hexenjagd, 2014
Awards and Nominations
- 1992: Screenplay Treatment Award of the Hamburg Department of Culture - for Is Mausi Coming Out?
- 1995: Nominated for the Telestar Award - for Is Mausi Coming Out?
- 1997: Audience Awards in New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Paris - for Everything Will Be Fine
- 1998: Honored at the Cologne Conference - for An Angel's Revenge
- 2005: Hessian film award as "Best feature film" - for Fremde Haut
- 2005: Jury Grand Prize at the International LGBT Festival in Montreal - for Fremde Haut
- 2005: Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Seattle L & G Film Festival - for Fremde Haut
- 2006: Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival - for Verfolgt
- 2006: Best Feature Film at the Paris Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival - for Fremde Haut
- 2007: Nominated for Best Narrative Feature at Tribeca Film Festival - for Vivere
- 2012: Nominated for Best Documentary at German Film Awards - for The Look
Charlotte Rampling: The Look (2011)
Charlotte Rampling: The Look is a documentary film from 2011. It is about the life of English actress, model, and singer Charlotte Rampling. The film explores Rampling's work. She explains how it was hard to act in movies made in languages other than English. She mentions that acting in French movies helped her learn to speak French very well.
Maccarone talked about why she wanted to make this documentary. She said she had great respect for Rampling. She made the film "as a gift" to understand Rampling's work better. She also said the film was a tribute to Rampling's bravery.
See also
- List of female film and television directors
- List of lesbian filmmakers
- List of LGBT-related films directed by women
