Photo: Nadja Krüger
Caroline Spreitzenbart is an Austrian cinematographer. Trained in cinematography at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF), mentored by Tom Fährmann and Peter Zeitlinger, she was a DAAD scholar at the CCC Film Institute in Mexico City.
The hybrid feature Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning (dir. Julia Fuhr Mann) premiered at the Venice International Film Festival (Settimana Internazionale della Critica). The Guardian described her cinematography as “woozy, stylized visuals with the color temperatures turned up to the max.” For her work on the film, she received the Michael Ballhaus Award at the First Steps – German Newcomer Awards (in partnership with Netflix, Warner Bros., and Amazon Prime). She also received Best Cinematography at the Internationales Frauen* Film Fest Dortmund+Köln (National Competition of Women Directors of Photography).
Spreitzenbart lensed Storm & Stress, which won the Audience Award at Return Filmfest, and It Would Be a Different Sea, which premiered at the Berlinale.
Her narrative and documentary work has screened at festivals including, Venice, Berlinale, Locarno, Frameline, BFI Flare London, NewFest NY, Dok.fest, Diagonale, and Crossing Europe.
She is a member of the Deutsche Filmakademie.
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Press
Young female cinematographers honored
Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Arri Production Award (Interview)
ARRI RENTAL
»It is time for a common, diverse view through the cameras.« IFFF (Statement)
Internationales Frauen Film Fest Köln+Dortmund
Life is not a competition, but I'm winning (Review; Venice)
The Guardian
Awards
Arri Production Award
Winner of National Competition of Women Directors of Photography at IFFF
Michael Ballhaus Award at First Steps German Newcomer Awards
My fiction and hybrid work is driven by a proactive, narrative focus;
Precise spatial composition and color-led storytelling.
From researched mood boards and LUTs,
carrying the look through RAW and dailies, to the final grade.