Name Rainer Frimmel Role Director | Organizations founded Vento Film Production company Vento Film | |
Movies Little Girl, The Shine of Day, Babooska Similar People Tizza Covi, Tairo Caroli, Satyajit Ray, Xaver Bayer | ||
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Rainer Frimmel (born July 11, 1971, in Vienna) is an Austrian director and photographer. After studying psychology in Vienna he graduated as a photographer. He has received scholarships in New York City, Paris and Rome for his photographic work.
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Since 1996 he has been working together with Tizza Covi on films, theatre, and photography. In 2002 they founded their own film production company Vento Film to produce their films independently. They have won several awards for their documentaries, including the Wolfgang-Staudte-Award at the Berlinale for Babooska.
La Pivellina is their first fiction feature film and has been screened worldwide in more than 130 International Film Festivals. The film has received numerous international awards including the Europa Cinemas Label in Cannes and was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but didn't make the final shortlist. Their second feature film, The shine of day, premiered in the international competition in Locarno 2012 and won the Silver Leopard for Best Actor. The film was also awarded as Best Austrian Movie of the year at the Diagonale, and won the Max Ophüls Award in Saarbrücken 2013.