Stephanie Falkeis
Stephanie is an Austrian director and screenwriter currently completing her MFA at Columbia University on a Fulbright Fellowship. Recently selected as a BAFTA Newcomer Talent and for participation in the Cannes-La Fémis Co-Production Atelier, she is also an alum of the Telluride Film Festival Symposium and the Innsbruck Film Campus. Her historical limited series ‘The Invisible Sister’ received the inaugural ‘Heroines in Series’ screenwriting award from FISA Austria. Her short films have screened internationally in cinemas, galleries and festivals and her latest short ‘At the Shore’ received an award at the NYWIFT Festival (New York Women in Film and Television). Her narrative work often deals with notions of otherness and belonging, memory, and our relationship to the natural world. Besides her work as a writer and filmmaker, Stephanie co-founded the bilateral Austrian American Short Film Festival (AASFF), which she curated from 2015-2018.
