Melanie Waelde
Nackte Tiere
Melanie Waelde
Nackte Tiere

Melanie Waelde

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Jupiter Award 2025 The best of 12 categories can be chosen until December 31, 2024. The nominees for “Best National Series” include “Bad Influencer” (directed by Melanie Waelde and Lilli Tautfest) and “30 Tage Lust” (screenplay by Carolina Zimmermann and Karla Cristóbal, among others). We are keeping our fingers crossed!

Bad Influencer The debut series by Melanie Waelde and Lilli Tautfest will be available in the ARD media library from November 8, 2024. It is about a young woman who is humiliated online as a trophy of pick-up artist Pascal.

Awards & Distinctions (Selection)

2024: Bad Influencer
2023: Juli tanzt
2022: Schloss Einstein · nomination Grimme Preis (special: 1000 episodes)
2022: Echt - Staffel 1 · nomination Grimme Preis
2020: Nackte Tiere · Preis der deutschen Filmkritik - Bestes Spielfilmdebüt // Berlinale 2020 - Encounters // Lobende Erwähnung der Jury des GWFF Preises "Bester Erstlingsfilm" // "Zoom Medienfabrik Award" - European Work in Progress Cologne // Giffoni Film Festival // Guanajuato International Film Festival - Internationaler Spielfilmwettbewerb // Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival - Nowadays // Shortlist Günter-Rohrbach-Filmpreis // Viennale // São Paulo International Film Festival - New Directors Competition // New Horizons International Film Festival - Discoveries // Festival de Cine de Sevialla - The New Waves // German Film Festival Moscow // Hainan International Film Festival - World Cinema // International Film Festival of India - World Panorama // Mostra de Cinema de Expressão Alemã

Recent projects (Selection)

2024: Tatort Saarbrücken Das Ende der Nacht · Television · Regie: Tini Tüllmann · Bavaria Fiction | ARD
2023: Bad Influencer Folgen 4-7 · Television · TELLUX Next GmbH | SWR/ARD
2022: Juli tanzt (ZDFtivi Kinderfilm/Melanie Waelde) · Television · Studio Zentral | ZDF tivi
2022: Tatort Saarbrücken Die Kälte der Erde · Television · Bavaria Fiction | ARD

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