Jessica Landt

Biography

Jessica Landt graduated in film- and television studies at the Ruhr-University of Bochum in 2004 and finished the German-French Masterclass (Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris) in 2002/2003. Jessica Landt is an active member of the alumni organization, being a member of the board until May 2013 of the French-German Masterclass (now Atelier-Network). She participated in Interchange/Torino Filmlab in 2013 and in the Eave Producer’s Workshop 2014. Since 2009 she is one of the founders and owners of Beleza Film with base in Hamburg and Berlin. Beleza Film – is composed of Jessica Landt & Falk Nagel. We are realizing features and documentaries as well as transmedia projects. It is the personal stories and the characters that we are interested in. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Hamburg (in the house of the young producers/Studio Hamburg) as well as in Berlin. Both producers have finished the French-German Masterclass /Ludwigsburg-Paris and are among the founders of the initiative www.hamburg-lebt-kino.de (Hamburg lives Cinema). Right from the beginning the projects have had a strong international objective. In 2010 Beleza Film realized the film workshop “One Day in the West Bank“ together with 10 young film makers in Palestine in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Ramallah, in 2011 the short film „Little Red“ (nominated for the Berlin Today Award 2011) directed by Romanian Eva Pervolovici was completed. In 2012 the Turkish-German coproduction “Küf” (in Coproduction with Motiva Film and Yeni Sinemacilar) held its premiere at the Venice Critic’s Week and won the “Lion of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentis” Venice Award for the best debut film. In 2013 Beleza Film finished the documentary „Make Me A Match“ about matchmaking in Israel. And in 2014 the documentary about Northern German painter \"Peter Nagel\" has its premiere at the Nordische Filmtage Lübeck. Current projects in development, are the feature film “I Dreamt of Empire” by Kasem Kharsa, which is set in Egypt, the Turkish-German coproduction “Brothers” (Prod. Turkey: Anka Film), the documentary \"We, Children of the Revolution\" as well as the German feature “SÜDLICHt” by writer Martin Reitberger and director Stefan Hering.