Wannabe
Austria, Germany2017fiction30'Short matters! krótkie filmy roku (2018)
Coco is 17 and desperate to become famous, even though she seems to lack talent. She is willing to do anything for recognition. She skips school to attend castings or music video shoots, but faces one humiliation after another. With her “Coco Channel“ YouTube channel, she tries to get publicity online and create the successful, loved, and confident character she wishes she could really be. In his crossmedia project, combining film with online videos, Jannis Lenz tells the story of a young YouTuber, who builds her own fictitious world online. Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Nominee.
- directed by
- Jannis Lenz
Jannis Lenz works as a study assistant in directing at the Filmacademy Vienna for Michael Haneke and Wolfgang Murnberger. His first student film SHADOWBOXER (2015) won several awards, including „Best short fiction“ at the Diagonale-Festival of Austrian Film, as well as a Special Mention at the 69th Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival. ZERO- G (2016), has run over 100 festivals in its first year, like Rotterdam IFF, and received many prizes and awards, e.g. „Best Student Documentary“ at the 49th Montreal World Film Festival. Jannis Lenz Bachelor degree film at the Filmacademy Vienna, WANNABE, won the EFA-Award in Clermont-Ferrand and is nominated for the European Film Awards 2017. In 2016 Lenz worked in different jurys at international film- and literature festivals and received the START Scholarship for cinematic art of the Bundeskanzleramt Austria.
- cinematography
- Andi Widmer
- script
- Jannis Lenz, Andi Widmer, Matthias Writze
- music
- Benedikt Palier
- editing
- Alexander Rauscher
- production
- Roland Fischer (Ocean Pictures Filmproduktion), Lukas Zweng
- Photo
