Wiebke von Carolsfeld (born 1966) is a German Canadian film director, writer and editor."German's debut film perfectly Canadian". ''

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'', April 18, 2003. Her debut feature film as a director, '' Marion Bridge'', won the

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at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival.

Background

Originally from Germany, von Carolsfeld moved to Canada. Despite having degrees in medieval history and literature from the

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, she was rejected when she applied to

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's film school for lacking the Ontario-specific

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in her high school transcripts. Instead, she volunteered with the local cable community channel to gain experience, before taking a job as an assistant editor on David Cronenberg's ''

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''.

Career

Her credits as an editor include Eisenstein, ''

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'', '' The Five Senses'', '' The Bay of Love and Sorrows'', '' Wrecked'', '' Fugitive Pieces'', ''

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'' and '' An Audience of Chairs''. As an editor, she was a shortlisted Genie Award nominee for Best Editing at the

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in 2002 for '' Eisenstein''. As a writer/director, she followed up with the 2013 film ''

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'' and the 2015 film '' The Saver''. At the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016, she was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for ''The Saver''. In 2019 she published ''Claremont'', her first novel. In 2020 the book was optioned for a film adaptation by

Jeremy Podeswa Jeremy Podeswa (born 1962) is a Canadian film and television director. He is best known for directing the films '' The Five Senses'' (1999) and ''Fugitive Pieces'' (2007). He has also worked as director on the television shows '' Six Feet Under ...

.Lauren Malyk
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* 1966 births Living people Canadian women film directors Canadian film editors German emigrants to Canada Canadian women novelists Canadian women screenwriters Carolsfeld, Wiebke Canadian women film editors 21st-century Canadian screenwriters 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian women writers {{Canada-film-director-stub