Anna Hepp
Anna Hepp (born 1977 in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German filmmaker, artist and photographer. Life and work. From 1996 to 1998 Anna Hepp studied education and philosophy at the University of Essen. In 1998 she started an apprenticeship as a photographer, which she completed with a certificate in 2001. Since 2001 Anna Hepp has been working as a freelance and employed photographer. In 2003 she began her studies of audiovisual media at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, which she finished with distinction in 2009. Her diploma film "A Day and an Eternity " (Ein Tag und  eine Ewigkeit) received numerous festival awards, among others in China. The short film also received the "valuable" rating from the German Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung (FBW). Anna Hepp's second film, the documentary "Turkish Kraut" (Rotkohl und Blaukraut) celebrated its world premiere at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival in 2011. In 2012, her short film portrait "I would prefer not to" (Ich möchte lieber nicht) about Hilmar Hoffmann, the former Head of the Frankfurt Department of Culture, was released. In the same year, Anna Hepp also received a scholarship from the Goethe Institute in Porto Alegre, Brazil, as Artist  in Residence. Since 2015 Anna Hepp has been working on the realisation of an artistic film portrait about the famous German film director Edgar Reitz, which was financially supported by the German film foundations "Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA)", "Film- und Medienstiftung NRW" and "Kuratorium junger deutscher Film". The completed project, the documentary film entitled Eight Hundred Times Lonely "(800 Mal Einsam – ein Tag mit dem Filemaker Edgar Reitz)", celebrated its world premiere on 6 September 2019 at the 76th Venice International Film Festival and was nominated for the "Venezia Classici Award" in the category "Documentary on Cinema". Anna Hepp lives in Cologne