Thomas Woschitz (born 22 April 1968, in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee) is an Austrian film director, screenwriter and film editor.

Life and work

Thomas Woschitz grew up in Austria and studied at the

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in Rome under

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. After working as a film editor for feature films (he was nominated for a

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award for Best Editing for La Capa Gira, directed by Alessandro Piva), he went on to direct a series of short films that were screened at major film festivals: Girls and Cars (2004) was screened in the

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section of the

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. His long collaboration with the Austrian indie band

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led to the creation of the "film concert" Sperrstunde (2005), which was screened in competition at the

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. In 2009 he was awarded the

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for his episodic music film Universalove, which also features music by the band

. His second feature film Bad Luck (2015), which stars

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, was praised for its tragic-comic nature and Woschitz's work with lay actors.

Filmography

* 1995: Tascheninhalt und Nasenbluten (short) * 1996: Blindgänger (short) * 2004: Girls and Cars in a Colored New World (short) * 2005: Sperrstunde * 2008: Universalove * 2015: Bad Luck

Awards

* 2009: Max Ophüls Prize for Universalove (2009)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Woschitz, Thomas Austrian film directors 1968 births Living people