Team / Cosima Lange (director)
Cosima Lange was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1976. Being a member of the children’s choir of Hamburg State Opera, she was introduced to the variety of different cultures through many concert tours throughout her childhood, including Japan, Russia, USA and many European countries. It was through these travels that she eventually formed the idea to start career in films. For her, it was a media that is greatly suited to reach people all over the world, and that can bridge cultural divisions for entertaining people, giving information, and transmiting hopes and dreams.
Following various assistance jobs in the film industry, she studied Film Production at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany, between 1998 and 2003. The main focus was “Creative Producing”. During this time she produced various shortfilms, and in 2003 was awarded her degree with romantic-science-fiction-thriller VAKUUM, 70 mins. (production and script), one of the biggest student production of all times. It had great success at international filmfestivals and was shown on German televsion channels.
In 2005 Cosima Lange founded “fliegende fische film” together with Nina Klingen (in 2009 changed to "fliegende fische creative pool"). Since then she develops her own projects as script writer, director, and producer. CHAMAMÉ (2005), a film about four Argentinian musicians, was her first full-length feature documentary both as a script writer and director. The film was shown successfully in various film festivals around the world and screened in cinemas. Simultaneously with the film, the music-video MI PUEBLO, LA CASA, LA SOLEDAD was shot with Accordion player Chango Spasiuk (winner of "Best Newcomer 2005" by the "BBC Award for Worldmusic").
She is also the guest lecturer as well as the Line Producer for ARTE Short Film Production at the “Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris”, a post-graduate educational program which is open to european students specializing in cinema production and distribution at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg.
VAKUUM
CHAMAMÉ Musikvideo*
Marcus Winterbauer was born in 1965 in Karlsruhe, Germany. He first came in contact with films during his civil service in Belfast. While living and growing up in an area beset with conflicts, he organised photo exhibitions, and also attended a college course on Super8 films. Thus was born his passion for moving pictures, and his initial interest into photography was directed to film cinematography.