If there is one thing that Vanessa Stachel loves more than anything else, it’s to tell a good story.
A good story should captivate you. It should send you off into a world you’ve never explored before and show you interesting characters and offer you new thoughts and inspiration that you might (or might not) take with you into your own life.
A good story should captivate you. It should send you off into a world you’ve never explored before and show you interesting characters and offer you new thoughts and inspiration that you might (or might not) take with you into your own life.
Vanessa discovered her love for storytelling at an early age when she was drawing her own comics and animated films back in school days and shot Zombie-Comedies with her friends and family. From the age of 15 it had been her plan to study film directing but some detours (that weren’t too bad overall) took her to study Communication Design, work as a Scientific Researcher and as a Motion Designer in the media industry.
But remembering the original plan, she started her directing studies at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in 2020 and she couldn’t be happier with this descision.
Vanessa shot 9 short films and spec-spots so far at the Filmakademie with a focus on weirdly lovable characters and Genre-film settings.
With the DAAD “PROMOS” scholarship by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, she took part in an exchange programme with the University of Texas at Austin. Her spec-spots have won numerous prices at international festivals like the "Young Director Award", the "Ciclope" festival, the "Andy Awards", "Porsche Awards", "The One Club for Creativity", the german and the european “ADC” and the "Shiny Awards".
Vanessa shot 9 short films and spec-spots so far at the Filmakademie with a focus on weirdly lovable characters and Genre-film settings.
With the DAAD “PROMOS” scholarship by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, she took part in an exchange programme with the University of Texas at Austin. Her spec-spots have won numerous prices at international festivals like the "Young Director Award", the "Ciclope" festival, the "Andy Awards", "Porsche Awards", "The One Club for Creativity", the german and the european “ADC” and the "Shiny Awards".
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