KERSTIN POLTE

Script Writer / Director Kerstin Polte wants to get you hooked. On the good stuff. Precisely: Intriguing feature films & series; appealing portraits and documentaries. Her stories and characters are magically strange, weirdly funny, and deeply touching. She is a scriptwriter, movie director and and a pioneer in collaborative story development. In 2015 she founded Serienwerk , a development company for serial formats. Serienwerk was awarded as Kultur- und Kreativpilot; a title, the german government grants to outstandingly innovative creative companies. Kerstin graduated multiple renowned film schools: she did her BA in film and theatre studies in Quebec, Canada;, continued her studies at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany (with promotional award) and finally got her masters degree in filmdirection/scriptwriting at the University of Arts in Zurich, Switzerland. She was chosen to be a fellow in the Drehbuchwerkstatt Munich and in EKRAN, the european fellow programme for directors - initiated by Andrzej Wajda. Her graduate film 510 meters above sea level screened at more than 150 international film-festivals and received multiple awards. Her following film Last round premiered at the int. Locarno Film Festival. Her full-length cinema documentary Everything but Oom-Pa-Pa (about the worlds largest women brass orchestra) received multiple audience awards. Her debut feature film Cloud whispers - a poetical and funny road movie - won the award of the german critics association and the bavarian film price (best upcoming director) . It was largely featured in german cinemas in spring 2018. At the moment, her portrait about the queer-feminist Rapper sookee -of seahorses and closets is starting on his international festival tour. Moreover her next feature film Blind shells and several primetime TV series projects were just funded and commissioned.