Marilia H.

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LILLAH HALLA (Marilia Halla, Brazil, 1981) studied Directing (Bachelor) and Screenwriting (Master) at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba (2010-2014). She participated in the ELAP (Emerging Leaders of America) research program on Narrative Forms in Narrative and Experimental Cinema at the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Concordia, Montreal, Canada (2014). Since 2016 Lillah Halla lives in Berlin, where she is hired as a filmmaker for different film productions in Germany and abroad. She was production manager as script consultant for the film ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS (2018, Germany / Australia), directed by Gabrielle Brady, awarded Best Documentary Language at the Festival de Tribeca and winner of the Buyens-Chagoll Prize at the Festival Visions du Réel , Lillah Halla also co-wrote the film REHEARSAL (2018, Brazil), directed by Tamar Guimarães, along with Tamar Guimarães (São Paulo / Copenhagen) and Melissa de Raaf (Berlin). The film premiered at the 68º Berlinale (2018) and the 33rd Biennale in São Paulo (2018). Lillah is the author of the screenplay for the film LIVRAMENTO, supported by the program Ibermedia 2016, which received an Award from the Tribeca Film Institute, participated in the Labs Co-Production Market of the BERLINALE 2019, and at the Curso de Desarrollo de Proyectos Cinematográ cos Iberoamericanos of the Fundación Carolina in Madrid (Course for the Development of Iberoamerican Film Projects), 2018 , BAL-BAFICI, 2018, BOLIVIALAB, 2018 (excellent), CINEMUNDI BH 2018, Lab SESC NOVAS HISTÓRIAS 2018, BrLab, 2016 (excellent). The script won in 2018 the Brazilian prize Cabíria for the best female figure. The film project, which is also directed by Lillah Halla, received funding from the FSA 2018 as Brazilian production and co-production between Brazil and Uruguay. In the meantime, Lillah also work as a camera woman and editor for smaller film productions, both commercial and artistic. Among her collaborations as a filmmaker, are film and theater works by Christoph Schlingensief, Frank Castorf, production companies and agencies in Berlin. She is currently making a shoot for Google in Zürich.

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