Sophia Schachtner, born in Munich in 1995, lives and works in Hamburg. After graduating from high school in 2014, and an internship at Neuesuper Filmproduktion in Munich, she mainly worked in the art department for various film and television productions. Since 2018, she has been studying film at the HFBK Hamburg with Angela Schanelec and Bernd Schoch. In 2024, she began her Master’s degree in Narrative Film with Angela Schanelec. She also studied at Filmakademie Wien in Austria and at LUCA School of Arts Brussels in Belgium.
Her works transcend between documentary and fiction.
She was part of the Student Jury at DOK.fest München 2022 and part of the Young Europeans Jury at FIPADOC Biarritz in 2023.
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