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Films and Filmmakers: KINDERWALD (2014)
Lise Raven's 2014 award winning feature film Kinderwald is the second part of The Kinderwald Trilogy, a trilogy of films that are inspired by fairy tales about children lost in the woods. Raven is working on the third part of the trilogy which is inspired by Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Match Girl. Raven is currently an Associate Professor of Film at Montclair State University in the College of the Arts, School of Communication and Media.
Lise Raven is an award-winning filmmaker who enjoys making both narrative and documentary films. Raven’s first feature film, LOW, screened in over 30 international film festivals. In 1995 she helped to found the Slamdance Film Festival, after which she wrote and directed three films for the SHOWTIME network. In 2000 Raven moved to Berlin, Germany after being awarded the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm Artist Residency in Film. While in Europe, Raven’s feature film project, Snipe, was funded by the Irish Film Board. In 2011 she worked with the Philadelphia Museum of Art to create a short video that was included in the Roberto Capucci: Art Into Fashion exhibition.
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