WANNABE

«There are many films we’ve screened that deal wholly or tangentially with new media fame, but this is the most empathetic and wholly realized treatment we’ve yet encountered in a short film.»
Chelsea Lupkin, Short of the Week

SYNOSPIS

As a crossmedia project, connecting film with the online video scene, WANNABE tells the story of a young YouTuber, who builds herself a fictitious world on the Internet.

FICTION / AT / DE 2017

STARRING: Anna Suk, Mathias Dachler, Simone Fuith, Markus Schleinzer, Merlin Leonhardt

DIRECTOR & CROSSMEDIA CONCEPT: Jannis Lenz

SCREENPLAY: Jannis Lenz, Matthias Writze, Andi Widmer

DOP: Andi Widmer

EDITING: Alexander Rauscher

PRODUCER:  Lukas Zweng

CO-PRODUCER: Roland Fischer, Ocean Pictures Filmproduktion

ART DIRECTOR: Eva Zar

RUNNING TIME: 29:50

SHOOTING FORMAT: 2k Alexa

SCREENING FORMAT: DCP 2k

ASPECT RATIO: 1:2,35

SOUND: Dolby Digital 5.1

FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS

(SELECTION)

•  Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis

•  Clermont - Ferrand International Film Festival

•  Diagonale- Festival of Austrian Film

•  Sarajevo International Film Festival

•  Helsinki International Film Festival

•  Odense International Shortfilm Festival

•  CPH : PIX Copenhagen

•  Uppsala International Short Film Festival

•  Brest European Short Film Festival

•  PÖFF - Talinn Black Nights International Film Festival

•  Interfilm - Berlin International Short Film Festvial

•  Tampere International Film Festival

•  Sevilla European Film Festival

•  Alcine Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares

•  Leuven International Film Festival

•  International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

•  Filmfest Dresden – International Short Film Festival

•  Krakow Film Festival

•  Curtas Vila do Conde – International Short Film Festival

•  Glasgow International Short Film Festival

•  Dokufest – International Documentary and Short Film Festival

•  International Short Film Festival in Drama

   etc.

SCREENINGS AT MUSEUMS & EXHIBITIONS:

•  mumok - Museum of Modern Art Vienna

•  Ars Electronica Center, Linz

•  Swedish Film Institute Stockholm

•  Kunsthalle Mainz , exhibition "Virtual Insanity"

•  Austrian Film Museum, Vienna

•  International Screenings with the Goethe Institute, Germany

   etc.

Part of SHORT MATTERS! Program organised by the European Film Academy

Part of FUTURE SHORTS Secret Cinema Tour 2018

Part of the Screening Tour of the Austrian Film Academy

Since 2017 listed in the catalogue „GERMAN SHORT FILMS 2017“ (AG Kurzfilm- German Shortfilm Association)

Since 2017 listed in the NEW GENERATION section of the AUSTRIAN FILM COMISSION.