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Lea Becker is a writer and director, working in fiction and non-fiction for television and the big screen.
Most recently, Lea co-wrote and directed the motion picture GET UP which will be in cinemas this summer. It was executive-produced by Christian Becker (Westside Filmproduktion / Rat Pack Filmproduktion) and Martin Moszkovicz (Constantin Film Produktion).
Lea is currently developing her motion picture script, REBECCA (WT), with executive producer Flo Schneider (PSSST! Film) and co-authors Anja Scharf and Timo Baer.
In 2021, Lea directed four episodes of the new German TV show HELLGROUND for Berlin-based Studio Zentral. She also directed three episodes of the NETFLIX show KITZ, as well as her first TV movie, #ICARUS, both produced by Odeon Fiction.
In 2019, Lea co-wrote and directed the feature-length TV documentary, A PERFECT RUN. Her documentary web series TRUE STORIES, which has around 100 episodes, was licensed to Samsung TV, generating millions of views.
In 2016, Lea wrote, produced and directed the acclaimed short film JENNY. It was nominated for the 2017 German Short Film Award and the Best Short Film Award at the Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis and won the Newcomer Award for Best Actor and the Bavarian Film Commission Award. Shortly after, she was offered to create, co-write and direct the miniseries HIT AND RUN.
Many of Lea’s films have been invited to international film festivals — most notably Berlinale Drama Series Days. At the Stockholm International Film Festival in 2013, her documentary short SWEAR won the Online Audience Award.
Lea holds a BA in Graphic Design from the University of the Arts London and the Cooper Union in New York and an MA from the University of Television and Film Munich (almuni: Wolfgang Petersen, Bernd Eichinger, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck). She is represented in Germany by Monica Conti, CEO of WRITERS & DIRECTORS.
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Lea Becker ist Autorin und Regisseurin für Serien, Spielfilme und Dokumentarfilme.
Zuletzt führte sie bei dem Kinofilm Get Up Regie, für den sie auch das Buch mitschrieb und der diesen Sommer im Constantin Film Verleih in die Kinos kommt. Produziert wurde der Film von Christian Becker (Westside Filmproduktion / Rat Pack Filmproduktion) und Martin Moszkovicz (Constantin Film)
2021 realisierte sie für Studio Zentral die neue SWR Serie Höllgrund sowie für die ODEON Fiction im WDR ihren ersten Langfilm, Flügel aus Beton, und bei Netflix die Serie Kitz.
2019 schrieb und drehte sie den abendfüllenden Dokumentarfilm Der Perfekte Run, ihr Abschlussfilm an der Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München, in Koproduktion mit dem ZDF / kleines Fernsehspiel, gefördert durch den FFF Bayern. Er feierte 2020 auf dem Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis im Dokumentarfilmwettbewerb Premiere. Lea hatte zuvor bereits für die Jugendserie HIT AND RUN mit dem Redakteur Burkhard Althoff zusammengearbeitet. HIT AND RUN wurde 2018 auf der Berlinale im Rahmen der Drama Series Days gezeigt.
2017 wurde ihr Film Jenny für den deutschen Kurzfilmpreis nominiert. Lea hatte auch das Buch geschrieben und den Film produziert. Zudem erhielt er den Preis für den besten Nachwuchsschauspieler (Leonard Kunz) auf dem Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, sowie den FFF Förderpreis auf der internationalen Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg.
Lea machte 2020 ihr Diplom in Dokumentarfilmregie und Fernsehpublizistik an der HFF München. 2009 hatte sie ihren Bachelor in Grafikdesign an der Universität der Künste London am Central Saint Martins College abgeschlossen. Im Rahmen ihres Studiums hatte sie ein Auslandssemester an der Cooper
Union New York verbracht. Lea wird von Monica Conti von WRITERS & DIRECTORS repräsentiert.
Filmography (selection)
2023
GET UP, motion picture, director & co-writer, 90 min., distribution: Constantin Film
2022
HÖLLGRUND / HELLGROUND, TV series, 4 episodes, director, producer: Studio Zentral for SWR
REBECCA, motion picture (in development), director, co-writer, producer: PSSST! Film
2021
FLÜGEL AUS BETON / #ICARUS, TV movie, 90 min., director, producer: Odeon Fiction for WDR
KITZ, Netflix series, 3 episodes, director, producer: Odeon Fiction
2020
DER PERFEKTE RUN / A PERFECT RUN, TV documentary, 94 min., co-writer & director, producer: Jupiter_Fiction with ZDF kl. Fernsehspiel and University of Television and Film Munich, additional funding by FFF Bayern
SOKO POTSDAM, TV series, 3 episodes, director, producer: Bantry Bay Productions for ZDF
2019
SOKO POTSDAM, TV series, 3 episodes, director, produced by Bantry Bay Productions for ZDF
2018
SPACE SALOON, documentary portrait series, director & cinematographer, client: Southern California Institute of Architecture & Space Saloon
SUNDAY IN BED S/S 2019, fashion film, director & cinematographer, client: Sunday In Bed
HAPPY HAMSTER, spec spot commercial, writer & director, client: Cerveza Dos Equis, producer: ArcticFoxFilm
POWERBANKS, series pilot for Wildbunch/SENATOR FILM, co-writer; director: Britta Thie
HIT AND RUN, fictional web-series, 5 episodes | 60 min., creator, writer & director, producer: lüthje schneider hörl | FILM for FUNK / ZDF kl. Fernsehspiel,
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Berlinale Drama Series Days
SUGAR, music video, concept & director, producer: lüthje schneider hörl | FILM, client: SAMT
100 Jahre Freistaat Bayern, commercial, concept & director, client: Bavarian Industry Association, Bavarian Farmers Association, producer: wirFILM
2017
DU GLAUBST / YOU BELIEVE, social spot, copy, concept & director, client: Bavarian States Ministries, producer: Serious Fox
WINDFÄNGER / WIND CATCHER, TV reportage, 29 min., director, cinematographer, producer: HFF Münche
JENNY, fiction short, 28 min., writer, director, co-producer (OK KOSMOS FILM) with HFF München
Nominated for the German Short Film Award 2017, Winner Best Newcomer Male Lead Actor, Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Winner FFF Förderpreis, International Short Film Week Regensburg
24H BAYERN, TV documentary, director, producer: Megaherz for Bayerischer Rundfunk
since 2016
TRUE STORIES, documentary web series, creator, director, producer
2015
THE RIGHT KIND OF LOVE, documentary, 45 min., co-director, producer: HFF München
2013
SWEAR, documentary short, 12 Min., writer, director, editor, producer: HFF München; online audience award, intl. Filmfestival Stockholm
Clients, production companies and colleagues:
Bayerisches Kultusministerium
Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Arbeit und Soziales, Familie und Integration
Bayerisches Staatsministerium des Innern
Bayerischer Rundfunk, German broadcaster
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Expolab, agency for advanced communication and design, Munich
FUNK, German broadcaster
Heinemann Kommunikation, Kommunikationsagentur, München & London
IDEO, international design agency, London & Munich
Iris, intl. marketing agency, London
Literaturfest München/
lüthje schneider hörl | FILM, production company, Munich
Megaherz, film production company, Munich
Museumspädagogisches Zentrum München
Serious Fox, production company, Munich
Stiftung Pinakothek der Moderne München
Sunday in Bed, interiors and clothing store, Munich
vbw – Vereinigung der Bayerischen Wirtschaft e. V.
Virtual Identity, web marketing agency, Munich
wirFILM, production company, Munich
ZDF, German broadcaster
Zibert + Friends, event agency, Munich