Person

Lana Delaroche (Berndl)
lberndl@icloud.com

Regisseurin
Regieassistentin
Drehbuchautorin
Drehbuchübersetzerin
Kuratorin
Moderatorin
Presse

Auch Recherche für Filmprojekte, Arbeit in Archiven etc. Insbesondere in der Ukraine, Russland, Kasachstan etc.

Biographie:
Author & Film director / Producer
Born in 1972 in Lviv, Ukraine, since 1995 lives in Vienna, Austria
Since 2008 Filmmaker (selective)

• “The New Blockheads as a private case” / 1 hour / Director / Script / Producer / finished in September 2020
• “The Source” / 1 hour / Director / Script / Producer / International Premiere at Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) 2021, Ogeechee International History Film Festival, Certificate of Merit
• “The Sunday in Strasbourg. Ukrainian forced labors from Donbass” / 2019 / Documentary / 91 min / Director / Script / Producer
Screenings
Essex Doc Fest, England, Award Winner 2020
Kinoproba, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Festival of historical films „Beyond Time“, Ukraine - Best Screenplay, 2020 etc.
HER Vision Film Festival, USA - Winner of First Prize;
Dhaka IFF in Bangladesh 2020;
Liberation Docfest Bangladesh;
Caorle Film Festival, Italy;
International Film Festival "Cinema and You" in Mariupol, Ukraine;
• "The Austrian road" (Topic: Austrian prisoners of World War I in the Altai Mountains) / 2016 / Documentary / Director / Script/ Producer / 38:19 min /
screenings in Kazakhstan, Kirghizistan, Ukraine; by Film Festivals:
Kerala IDSFKK, Peloponissos IFF 2017, Dhaka IFF in Bangladesh 2017, Regard Blue (Swiss, Zürich), Historical Film Festival, Ukraine (Kyiv), different FF in Russia, etc.
• „Everlasting" / Documentary / Director / Script/ In Development but currently put on hold
• „Migrants lives in Vienna / Short Documentary / 17:48 min / Haspelfilm 2009 / Co-Director, Co-Author
• “Journey into a fog” / Director Assistant / Director Christian Dewald / Werner Schwarz
• „Kick the habit“/ Ethnographic Documentary / 5:20 min / 2010 / Co-Director / Script Camera / Editing / Production
• 2009-2011 Script, camera, editing for “Society Magazin”
Since 2015 Producer
• “The Cosmospenguin in the Opera” (10 min.) 2019 animation / Director / Script / Camera Luca Postkhishvili
• “The Cosmospenguin in Sushiland” (12 min.) 2017 animation / Director / Script / Camera Luca Postkhishvili
• “The Cosmpospenguin” (4 min.) 2015 animation / Director / Script / Camera Luca Postkhishvili
Since 2004 writer
• Coauthor, co-editor "The Prisoners from Ukraine in the Concentration Camp: Mauthausen. History and Memory", 2020
• Coauthor of „Unforgettable Cinema, unforgettable Stars“, novel, Publishing house „Maksimka“, St. Petersburg
• Author of „Fassion in Russia“, University Publishing house Röhrig
• Couthor „Massud Rahnama – Schauspieler, Dramatiker, Regisseur“, Publishing House INSTVerlag, Vienna
Festival works and other activities in the film industry since 1999
• Moderation VIENNALE, Crossing Europe and Ukrainian Film Days – 2019
• Writing about films for different media: RAY Filmmagazin etc.
• 2018 corrections füor “Romanzo popolare" by Mario Monicelli, 104 min at Film Museum etc.
• 2017 Subtitling of "David Golder" by Julien Duvivier, Oblomok imperii "by F. Ermler) for Filmmuseum
• 2017 work for Crossing Europe Film Festival (moderator / interpreter / Q & A in the film screenings of Vitaly Manskij
• 2015 - Work for LET’S CEE Film Festival
• December 2014 - Curator of the Austrian film program in Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation at the Film Festival "KINOPROBA"
• 2014 - Moderator at VIENNALE (Aliona Polunina etc.)
• 2014 - Work for LET'S CEE Film Festival (interpreter / Q & A with the film screening of Vitaly Manskij
• 2013 - Work for LET'S CEE Film Festival (interpreter / Q & A with the film screenings / Masterclass by A. Sokurov)
• 2011 - 2012 - Film Archiv Austria ("Austrian film workers in the Soviet Union") - translation, subtitling, Assistant Director, Curator
• 2010 - Photographer for This Human World (International Film Festival of Human Rights, Vienna)
• Research, location manager, interpreting, subtitling for various film production companies, among others for Satelfilm, Bonusfilm, Production West etc.

Education (selective)
• 2014 Master of Arts (MA)
• degree in TV & Film-Production, the professional Master Program Donau-University Krems, Department for Arts and Management, Austria
• September 2008 - June 2009 Certificated TV Documentarian, Television
• documentary, TV-Journalism, Production, Directing / Camera / professonal training for television documentary productions / 3 semesters / University of Vienna / VHS / Werkstätte Kunstberufe
• 2008 Training at the Okto Community TV (camera, sound, editing)
• 2001 - 2002 Free student at the Film academy of Vienna, Austria
• 2002 - 2003 Actors course and emotional basic training at actors studio „Act and Fun“
• 1996 - June 2004 Magistra of Philosophy: degree in Translator studies at Vienna Institute of Interpreter and Translator, University of Vienna, Austria, Language Russian, German, Italian
• September 1990 - June 1996 Degree with the title “Teacher of German language and literature”, German language and literature studies at the faculty of foreign languages at Lviv Ivan Franko University, Ukraine
Trainings in Film (selective)
• 2013 Vienna - EAVE / Participation without project
• 2013 Leipzig – Documentary Campus / Participation without project
• 2012-2013 Austria – SOURCES2 / Participation with project
• 2012 Vienna – Diverse Geschichten, Witcraft Szenario / Participation with project
• 2012, London – Babylon / Participation with project
• 2012 Italy – ESoDoc / Participation with project
• 2008 – EX ORIENTE / Participation with project
Languages
• Ukrainian – Mother tongue
• Russian - Mother tongue
• German - excellent
• Italian - very good
• English - good
• French - good
• Polish - very good

Producer of animation and participations at Film Festivals:
• “The Cosmospenguin in the Opera” (10 min.) animation / Director / Script / Camera Luca Postkhishvili, 2019

Winner:
• Zolote Kurcha, Ukraine, December 2020, Award for Originality
• The Stone Flower Youth Film Festival, Russia, December 2020, Honorable Mention
• Parma International Music Film Festival, Parma, Italy, September 14, 2020
SPECIAL AWARD “MUP” for young artists
• Fresh International Film Festival
Dublin Ireland, March 25, 2020
Ireland Premiere
Best International Junior Filmmaker
• LANTERN & LIGHT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL
Melbourne, Australia, 2019
JOBY LANTERN & LIGHT AWARD FOR BEST ANIMATION

Filmographie:
• “The New Blockheads as a private case” / 1 hour / Director / Script / Producer / finished in September 2020
• “The Source” / 1 hour / Director / Script / Producer / International Premiere at Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) 2021, Ogeechee International History Film Festival, Certificate of Merit
• “The Sunday in Strasbourg. Ukrainian forced labors from Donbass” / 2019 / Documentary / 91 min / Director / Script / Producer
Screenings
Essex Doc Fest, England, Award Winner 2020
Kinoproba, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Festival of historical films „Beyond Time“, Ukraine - Best Screenplay, 2020 etc.
HER Vision Film Festival, USA - Winner of First Prize;
Dhaka IFF in Bangladesh 2020;
Liberation Docfest Bangladesh;
Caorle Film Festival, Italy;
International Film Festival "Cinema and You" in Mariupol, Ukraine;
• "The Austrian road" (Topic: Austrian prisoners of World War I in the Altai Mountains) / 2016 / Documentary / Director / Script/ Producer / 38:19 min /
screenings in Kazakhstan, Kirghizistan, Ukraine; by Film Festivals:
Kerala IDSFKK, Peloponissos IFF 2017, Dhaka IFF in Bangladesh 2017, Regard Blue (Swiss, Zürich), Historical Film Festival, Ukraine (Kyiv), different FF in Russia, etc.
• „Everlasting" / Documentary / Director / Script/ In Development but currently put on hold
• „Migrants lives in Vienna / Short Documentary / 17:48 min / Haspelfilm 2009 / Co-Director, Co-Author
• “Journey into a fog” / Director Assistant / Director Christian Dewald / Werner Schwarz
• „Kick the habit“/ Ethnographic Documentary / 5:20 min / 2010 / Co-Director / Script Camera / Editing / Production
• 2009-2011 Script, camera, editing for “Society Magazin”
Since 2015 Producer
• “The Cosmospenguin in the Opera” (10 min.) 2019 animation / Director / Script / Camera Luca Postkhishvili
• “The Cosmospenguin in Sushiland” (12 min.) 2017 animation / Director / Script / Camera Luca Postkhishvili
• “The Cosmpospenguin” (4 min.) 2015 animation / Director / Script / Camera Luca Postkhishvili

Producer of animation and participations at Film Festivals:
• “The Cosmospenguin in the Opera” (10 min.) animation / Director / Script / Camera Luca Postkhishvili, 2019

Winner:
• Zolote Kurcha, Ukraine, December 2020, Award for Originality
• The Stone Flower Youth Film Festival, Russia, December 2020, Honorable Mention
• Parma International Music Film Festival, Parma, Italy, September 14, 2020
SPECIAL AWARD “MUP” for young artists
• Fresh International Film Festival
Dublin Ireland, March 25, 2020
Ireland Premiere
Best International Junior Filmmaker
• LANTERN & LIGHT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL
Melbourne, Australia, 2019
JOBY LANTERN & LIGHT AWARD FOR BEST ANIMATION

• “The Cosmospenguin in Sushiland” (12 min.) animation / Director / Script / Camera Luca Postkhishvili, 2017

• SHORTYNALE 2017 in Klosterneuburg, Austria, SPECIAL JURY MENTION AWARD
• San Diego International Kids' Film Festival 2017, USA
• Video&Filmtage, October 2017, cinemagic in the Urania, Vienna, PRIZE AWARD
• PSIAF – Palm Springs Int. Animation Festival, November 2017, USA
• ZOOM.12 - Mednarodni filmski festival
International film festival for children and youth under the age of 19, Ljubljana, Slovenia
21-23 March 2018, Semifinalist
• KIDS MOVIE FEST, Kiev, Ukraine, Mai 2018
Award for Best Technical Performance
• LITTLE BIG SHOTS, ACMI, Melbourne, Australia, June 2018
• FLORIDA ANIMATION FESTIVAL, June 2018
FIRST PLACE Category: International Indie Stop-Motion
• LA GUARIMBA FILM FESTIVAL, Calabria, Italy, July 2018
Dytiatko International Children‘s Television Festival, Charkiv, Ukraine, Official Selection with diploma
• Austrian Independent Film Festival, Vienna, Austria, Oktober 2018,
Special mention as BEST CHILDREN FILM 2018
• ENIMATION Film Festival, the International Children and Youth Film Festival, Maribor, Slovenia, 28th November 2018 GRAND PRIX
• Anchorage International Film Festival, Alaska, USA

• “The Cosmpospenguin” (4 min.) animation / Director / Script / Camera Luca Postkhishvili, 2015

• SHORTYNALE 2015 in Klosterneuburg, Austria,
SPECIAL JURY MENTION AWARD
• Video&Filmtage, October 2015, cinemagic in the Urania, Vienna, PRIZE AWARD
• YOUKI 2015, International Youth Media Festival, November 2015, Wels, Upper Austria
• Chiyoko 2015, International Children & Youth Animation Film Festival Zurich, Switzerland
2 PRIZE
• Oulu International Children's and Youth Film Festival, Finland, 2015
• KIDS FIRST! Film Festival, SAN FRANCISCO, USA
• ANIM!ARTE in BRAZIL 2016
HONORABLE MENTION by the 12th International Student Animation Festival of Brazil / International Students Mini
• Children´s Filmfestival Seattle February 2016
• PCFF Providence Children’s Film Festival 2016, USA
• FICAIJ - Festival Internacional de Cine y Audiovisual Infantil y Juvenil - Cúcuta, Colombia, Mai 2016
• OPENING FILM BY THE BIG ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL in Big Island, HAWAII, Mai 2016
• San Diego International Kids' Film Festival, August 26-28, 2016, USA
• RAIIFA - Ramunas Atelier International Independent Film Awards
Vilnius, Lithuania, 25-28 August, 2016
• Peloponnese International Documentary Festival, January 2017
• Madeira Film Festival, April 2017
• Gesäuse National Park, Gesäuse, Austria, July 2017

Publikationen:
• Coauthor, co-editor "The Prisoners from Ukraine in the Concentration Camp: Mauthausen. History and Memory", 2020
• Coauthor of „Unforgettable Cinema, unforgettable Stars“, novel, Publishing house „Maksimka“, St. Petersburg
• Author of „Fassion in Russia“, University Publishing house Röhrig
• Couthor „Massud Rahnama – Schauspieler, Dramatiker, Regisseur“, Publishing House INSTVerlag, Vienna
https://ray-magazin.at/interview-vitali-manski/
https://ray-magazin.at/hier-rauchen-alle-ueberall/
https://ray-magazin.at/ode-an-eine-geisterstadt-interview-rati-oneli/
https://ray-magazin.at/ukrainische-filmtage-in-wien/
https://ray-magazin.at/im-krieg-gibt-es-keine-sieger/
https://ray-magazin.at/paradies/
https://ray-magazin.at/es-geht-darum-den-menschen-im-menschen-zu-wecken/
https://ray-magazin.at/der-hass-ist-eine-sackgasse/
https://ray-magazin.at/john-wayne-und-die-gehoerlosen/
https://ray-magazin.at/taras-tkachenko/
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000014932299/ukrainischer-regisseur-die-ereignisse-wiederholen-sich
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000011273533/die-strasse-der-oesterreicher-am-ende-der-welt

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