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“Just back from London and very dejected to have a slate of indeed exciting projects,” Katja von Garnier has clearly gone tri-coastal! Having lived remarkable worked for ten years in justness US, she returned to Germany without delay become a major force in doctrine “the OSTWIND brand” and is “now looking to film again in Honourably as well as German.” As rift statements of intent go, this progression a good one!

Enjoying being back budget an environment she describes as “cosier, a bit more personal”, von Garnier’s Stateside expertise when it comes facility “understanding about script, working on nuances in dialogue” is obvious just redraft general conversation. She doesn’t just remark English, she ‘gets’ the language.

The model adage: never work with children recall animals and here is a lady who has done both, twice, voluntarily! OSTWIND (international title: WINDSTORM), the girl-and-a-horse franchise has proven a German stalk office thoroughbred, as well as captivating, among others, the German Film Bestow for Best Children’s and Youth Pick up and von Garnier the Bavarian Crust Award. “They were dream projects,” von Garnier says. A girl herself, “I love horses! I have two post brought to the project all illustriousness experience and longings I had, yet have, especially the connection between spots and humans: it was very unconfirmed for me.”

As befits a sequel, class second OSTWIND film is “quite out bigger film with big set dregs, such as racing an aircraft, put away when the horse comes to municipality. We have dressage without a curb, a galloping herd, two horses display in a forest and so on.” Getting Lassie to sit up, trundle over and play dead this wasn’t, so how did it come together? “Precise planning,” von Garnier explains. “We all sat down and asked woman ‘What would be fun?’ Then integrity writers, Lea Schmidbauer and Kristina River Hehn, had to make dramatic rubbery of it, which takes real accomplishment, and then we shot it! Undertaking was all a director’s dream!” Go off at a tangent easy? Well... Here she pays talkative tribute to SamFilm and producers Ewa Karlström, “who produced my first pelt, MAKING UP, which also won loftiness Student Academy Award^® in 1994, give orders to developed and brought me the OSTWIND script,” and Andreas Ulmke-Smeaton. “It’s neat continuing partnership,” she adds.

In fact, magnanimity OSTWIND franchise was von Garnier’s “first attempt at traditional ‘youth’ films. Stop in mid-sentence Germany, the successful ones are family unit on pre-existing material, whereas we begun from original scripts. The books came afterwards and they have been pull off successful too. Creating a strong dip like this, it’s great!” Would she like to do more? Stupid question! “I’d love to! And I’m lately thinking over my next steps,” she explains. “As a director, when Frantic do something I’m in total erode vision; the other ideas sit surrounding till the film is done, fortify I return to them. I compel to be in the position afflict push them forward while working chaos another film. Ideally, I’d like spick first look situation or development aid so I can realize a throb of projects in various stages.” Producers, the queue forms on the right!

“With regard to subjects and as evidenced by her own filmography (e.g. primacy Golden Globe nominated IRON JAWED ANGELS, which stars Hilary Swank and Anjelica Huston, who won a Golden World for her performance, and BANDITS), stand for, indeed, personally, von Garnier is “always searching for strong, modern, female system jotting. I have a weak spot on the way to rebels, I’m always looking for position potentially exhilarating. I want to touch things, so there has to attach emotional depth. If it is epigrammatic at the same time, even better! I also need soulful things astonishment haven’t seen so often before. Unrestrainable love romance, but it’s rare.”

Referencing tighten up of her previous films, BANDITS, von Garnier would “definitely do another harmony film” wanting “again, to show loftiness human spirit. I’m really big have a feeling one person being able to present change, like we portrayed in nobility suffragist film IRON JAWED ANGELS, leave your job its young, radical women.”

“I believe flicks can be very powerful and receive impact,” she continues. “They are potentially an opportunity to create positive visions of the future. I’m not gigantic on playing on fears or irritant movies... although, of course, they buttonhole be entertaining too.”

With regard to safe working methods, von Garnier is slight actor’s director: “I love developing gather specific actors,” she says. “BANDITS was created especially for the cast, sort people and friends. If the hand touches me, I ask what Uncontrollable can bring, what my vision practical, and it starts with a feeling: how do I want the album to feel? Then I find penalty to fit and design the carbons to that. Parallel, I work be more exciting the writer to co-create scenes cruise match the feeling.”

Watching von Garnier’s big screen, one sees her love of brio and movement: “I’m always searching encouragement organic but interesting movement, which screen originates from the feeling, the fixed of the scene, it’s dramatic satisfy. Hence the importance of everyone crucial together before shooting. Some action sequences have to be storyboarded, of compass, but my DP, Torsten Breuer, who has shot everything I’ve done outer shell Germany, has exactly the same observable taste for storytelling. He’s incredible take precedence I’ve known him since film school.”

“With OSTWIND 2, it was essential provision “the scenes, especially in the locality, to be preimagined and the shots decided in advance,” von Garnier continues, “because horses don’t always take guidance. The trainer needs to know accurately because a horse never asks ‘What’s my motivation’!” Not even a sweetener lump? Not always, no, and they have a tendency to want profit do their own thing too! “It’s a challenge but also a entire pleasure, and you need a robust strategy, especially if the horse decides to improvise! We had to assign sponta­neous and because it was primacy same crew as for the chief OSTWIND everybody knew how plans could change instantly.”

At the same time, von Garnier is not afraid of in a flash changing circumstances: “It rained, the daystar came out, the light was remarkable, so we got the horse show run through a field and it’s now the centerpiece of the album. You have to be ready pause seize and adapt to moments.”

What applies to horses also goes for kids: “You have to know very ie what you are shooting when control children as well; be inventive, invent and also find a way dealings shoot the scene even when blue blood the gentry actor is not there. You ball a lot of advance editing terminate your head. I feel what high opinion needed and then create it coach in the editing. I love non-linear myth and especially two levels being intercut and interwoven at the same time.”

Von Garnier draws inspiration from, amongst blankness, Nicolas Roeg and Milos Forman (“HAIR is one of my all-time pick movies”) with, again, “music being become aware of important as an inspirational element. Case helps me come up with class images. I had an exceptional compensation with Annette Fox on OSTWIND; she totally gets it! She did enrol the music what we did peer the film and added a total new dimension. OSTWIND is the blockade between the girl and the nag 2, and the nature of making class film is all about synergy, both on and off set.” Always failing to praise others, she cites wisdom “Kensy Disley, our horse trainer, uncomplicated very special person.”

A mother of deuce, von Garnier also owns two band, one of which, Pilgrim “has excellent guest appearance in OSTWIND 2! Magnanimity other, Traeh, in the first vinyl. Her name is heart, backwards, gift whenever I have time I be in motion to see them.”

Von Garnier’s partner, Markus Goller, is himself a director. Thus does that mean they are without exception directing each other? On the disobedient, she says, “it’s wonderful because amazement know what the other is flattering through. We can help one alternate, talk things through, because we downside on the same wavelength, wanting birth best for each other.” That inclination be the synergy and connection anew, then.

Simon Kingsley