ABOUT ELISA:


Marie Elisa Scheidt is a documentary filmmaker. Her films have been screened and awarded at numerous major film festivals around the world. They frequently traverse the borderland between documentary and fiction and explore human relationships, the sensual and ineffable in the ordinary, weaving powerful stories about the place of individuals in a global society.

Elisa studied documentary film at the University of Television and Film Munich and the School of Image Arts Toronto (Ryerson University).




AWARDS:

 


Desert Rocks Film Festival 2018:

Best Documentary Feature

for OUR WILDEST DREAMS


Desert Rocks Film Festival 2018:

Best Sidebar Film

for OUR WILDEST DREAMS


Impact DOCS Awards 2018:

Best Documentary Feature

for OUR WILDEST DREAMS


New York City Independent Film Festival 2018:

Best Score Award

for OUR WILDEST DREAMS


Rhode Island International Film Festival 2017:

Grand Prize Best Cinematography

for OUR WILDEST DREAMS


Intervideo Awards Mainz 2014:

Best Documentary Award

for LOLY H.


Landshut Short Film Festival 2014:

Best Documentary Award

for SOBOTA


Regensburg Short Film Festival 2014:

FFF Award - Best film by an emerging director

or SOBOTA


Bamberg Short Film Festival 2013:

Best Documentary Award

for THROUGH THE LENS OF INKEDKENNY


International Film + Video Festival 2013:

Best Experimental Short

for HOLY F#&%


Queer-Streifen Short Film Festival Regensburg 2013:

First Prize: Best Queer Short Film

for THROUGH THE LENS OF INKEDKENNY


Lugano Film Festival 2013:

Grand Prix

for THROUGH THE LENS OF INKEDKENNY


Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche 2013:

Honorable Mention

for THROUGH THE LENS OF INKEDKENNY


Konstanz Short Film Festival 2013:

Second Prize

for THROUGH THE LENS OF INKEDKENNY


Ca'Foscari Short Film Festival Venice 2011:

First Prize

for I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU NOT


Alternative Film/Video Festival Belgrade 2010:

First Prize "Important Cinematic Work"

for ON A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE


Konstanz Short Film Festival 2009:

Honorable Mention

for ON A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE