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 for 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