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UNPACKING THE UNIVERSE
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UNPACKING THE UNIVERSE

Documentary series, 9 episodes, USA 2022
English, Spanish, Ikʉ – with subtitles

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Producer: Agnes Stauber, Creative Director for Digital Media, LACMA
Directors: Agnes Stauber, Alexa Oona Schulz
Writer: Alexa Oona Schulz
With: Diana Magaloni, Julia Burtenshaw, Mamo Camilo Izquierdo, and Jaison Perez Villafaña

Unpacking the Universe: The Making of an Exhibition is a documentary series that follows the six-year journey of LACMA’s curators Diana Magaloni and Julia Burtenshaw in researching, developing, and installing The Portable Universe / El Universo en tus Manos. The series allows us to be transparent about how the team facilitated a collaborative process with the Arhuaco community in Colombia and curators at different institutions and kept this spirit of collaboration alive in the way the exhibition was installed.

Among many topics, the documentary features scenes of breathtaking landscapes and archeological sites; conversations with Mamo Camilo Izquierdo and Jaison Perez Villafaña regarding the Arhuaco worldview and how this relates to contemporary social and environmental issues; and behind-the-scenes footage of preparing the exhibition, including new initiatives around museum stewardship of Indigenous works. 

John Kerry in conversation with curators Julia Burtenshaw, Diana Magaloni, and the Colombian ambassador to the US.

Kerry was interested in the climate change message and potential sustainability solutions offered by alternative (indigenous) systems of knowledge.

Portable Universe / El Universo en tus Manos: Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia
LACMA | Resnick Pavilion
Spring 2022 – Fall 2022

Mamo Camilo and Jaison Perez Villafaña with curator Diana Magaloni during an offering ceremony at El Morro, a sacred island in the bay of Santa Marta. (copyright LACMA)

Watch Unpacking the Universe: The Making of an Exhibition at www.lacma.org/unpackingtheuniverse  

HABEN SIE IHR BALLETT SELBST ORCHESTRIERT?
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HABEN SIE IHR BALLETT SELBST ORCHESTRIERT?

Avantgarde Komponistinnen kämpfen um ihre Identität

About shattered lives, the power of art, and an almost forgotten chamber music concert

feature documentary

Bildschön Filmproduktion, Linda Matern
producer: Linda Matern
writer/director: Alexa Oona Schulz

status: in development
supported by: nordmedia film fund, Lower Saxony (development)

SCREENPLAYS
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SCREENPLAYS

Produced:
KATIE FFORDE – MEIN SOHN UND SEINE VÄTER (My Son and his Fathers), TV Feature Drama
(Network Movie, Hamburg), ZDF 23.10.2016  TRAILER
STREIT UM DREI (court show) ZDF, 7 Episodes, 2002-2003
STAATSANWALT (court show) UFA, Pilot Episode, 2002
MEIN PFLASTERSTEIN (The Cobblestone), Short, 2005
BURNING HEART, Short, 2001 (co-writer: Edwin Miles)
TRACES, Short, 2000

Unproduced:
QUEEN OF HAMBURG, One-Hour Serialized TV Series | Period Drama
*2020 Quarterfinalist TSL Free Screenplay Contest (top 8% of 13,000+ submitted screenplays)
*2019 Semifinalist Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship
*2019 Quarterfinalist Screencraft Pilot Launch
*2019 WGA-SAG/AFTRA Table Read Select
AMERICAN CRIME: MEXICO CITY, One-Hour Procedural TV Series | Police Drama
*2019 Finalist Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards
*2019 Quarterfinalist Screencraft Pilot Launch
EXIT / WOUNDS, Feature, Drama/Crime Drama
*2018 Short List New York Stage and Film, Filmmakers’ Workshop
*2017 Finalist WGA Feature Writer Access Project
LOVE NOTES, Feature, Comedic Romance
*2014 Finalist UCLA Writers’ Program Feature Competition

 

Contact:  alexaschulz@mac.com

MEIN PFLASTERSTEIN
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MEIN PFLASTERSTEIN

THE COBBLESTONE, Romantic Comedy, 11 min., Farbe/Color, D 2006

Etwas muss sich ändern im verkorksten Leben von Michael Walter: Er hat keine Arbeit, keine Frau, keinen Mumm und zu allem Überfuss klingt sein Nachname genau wie ein Vorname. Ein geheimnisvoller Pflasterstein weist Michael den Weg zum Glück. Er findet einen Job und begegnet der Frau in Rot mit dem exotischen Nachnamen. Aber schon bald merkt Michael, dass auf den machtvollen Pflasterstein nicht immer Verlass ist…

Something has to change in Michael Walter’s messed up life: he’s got no job, no wife, no courage and on top of all his last name sounds just like a first name. A mysterious cobblestone becomes Michael’s secret way to heaven. He gets a job and meets the Woman in Red with the exotic last name. But soon enough Michael finds out that there’s something wrong with the powerful cobblestone….

with Antonia Gerke and Tom Jahn

and:
David Bredin, Ingmar Skarinjar, Leo Solter und Susanne Eggert

Director/Writer: Alexa Oona Schulz
DoP: Matthias Grunsky
Editor : Rainer Standke
Music: Robert F. Trucios
Sound: Thomas Knop
Costume: Michaela Strumberger
Production: blue moon film

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BURNING HEART
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BURNING HEART

A fantastic drama about a lost dream.

TEASER

Fiction, 18 min, 16 mm, USA 2001

Starring: Baranda Hagen, Sewell Whitney and Andrew Gaines
Music: Robert F. Trucios with a song by UKEFINK
Production Design: Alberto Gonzales-Reyna, Costume Design: Victoria Fisk
Edior: Johannes Weuthen, Director of Photography: Matthias Grunsky, bvk
Screenplay: Edwin Miles and Alexa Oona Schulz
Producer, Director: Alexa Oona Schulz

Guest screening at VILLA AURORA – Foundation for European-American Relations, L.A.
Festivals e.g.: Long Island, Sarasota, wift World of Women’s Cinema and wift Australia-Tour
SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE JURY – Speelfilmfestival “De Drake”, Belgium
SILVER BEAR – Festival of the Nations, Austria

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WEEKEND WARRIORS
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WEEKEND WARRIORS

Football ist Leben im Zeitraffer.
Football is life accelerated.

Dokumentarfilm/documentary, 93 min.,Farbe/Color, D 2006 – freigegeben ab 6 Jahre

“Authentic scenes, as if the camera would not have been there, the dream of every documentary filmmaker”
(Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin)
“a film that’s just so funny and well-made, the characters are really well-developed and interesting.”
(The Missoulian, Montana, USA)
“A very inspired documentary debut.“
(Financial Times Germany)
“Must see!”
(Berliner Morgenpost)
“absolutely worth watching….an entertaining portrait.“
(Huddle – German Football Magazine)
“You get neither heroes nor myths, neither legends nor warriors, but something much better to see: people. Guys, characters, winners, losers – me and you, so to speak, and all that with a dog-sized little digicam (but the optics of a 35mm movie) and shot by a woman. And she had little to do with football before. A sacrilege? Not at all.”
(Evolver – Austrian Film and Music Magazine)

MORE PRESS

*Premiere: BIG SKY Documentary Film Festival 2006, Official Selection Feature Competition
*2006 Promotion Award of the Thuringia State Chancellery
*2006 Silver Ten Award – Sports Movies & TV Mumbai
*2006 Nomination for Guirlande d’Honneur – Sport Movies & TV Milano
Theatrical Release Germany in cooperation with Cinemaxx: March 2006

American Football überfällt die Fußball-Nation Deutschland!!!
American Football ist der Nummer Eins Sport in den USA. Aber auch erstaunlich viele Deutsche sind total verrückt nach dem Gerangel auf dem Rasen. Der Dokumentarfilm “Weekend Warriors” begleitet vier Spieler der “Berlin Adler” bei ihrem Kampf um den wichtigsten Titel in Deutschland – den GERMAN BOWL. Die Kamera ist überall dabei, auf dem Footballfeld und in der Umkleidekabine, zu Hause auf dem Sofa und im Büro, bei Jubel und bei Tränen.
Und geht der Frage nach: Warum eigentlich spielen Deutsche American Football?
Ein mitreißender Sportfilm und ein unterhaltsamer Film über Männer, die Gewinner sein wollen – im Sport und im Leben.

American Football invades Soccer-Germany… and they’re loving it! Four young amateur football players from Berlin are the main focus of the film. For them, this all-American sport is more than just a hobby and more than just a game. Football gives them guidance in life and a boost to their masculine ego.
“Weekend Warriors” portraits Herbie – the mama’s boy, Tilo – the show-off, Johnny – the young and confused, and Thomas – the thinker, during one football season with the “Berlin Adler”. The film explores in a humorous way how personal goals, moral values and rituals from the football field are applied to real life and vice versa.

mit/with
Tilo Hölscher
Sascha (Herbie) Herberg
Thomas Jonietz
Petrus Penkki
Johnny Schmuck
Kent Anderson
Shuan Fatah
und dem/and the Football Team “Berlin Adler”

Regie&Buch/Director&Writer: Alexa Oona Schulz
Kamera/DoP: Dirk Heuer
Schnitt/Editor: Jenny Allmendinger
Musik/Composer: Robert F. Trucios
Titelsong/Title Song: Styles&Smart
Ton/Sound: Ingo Aurich
Tonmischung/Final Sound Mix: Thomas Knop
Colorist: Nadir Mansouri (Das Werk, Berlin)
in Koproduktion mit/Co-produced with Vis-á-Vision Medienproduktion

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TRACES
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TRACES

An AFI production:

A comic-dramatic story about Gummy Bear voodoo.

Fiction, 7 min, 35 mm, USA 2000

A young woman is caught in a passionate but dead-end relationship with an older, married man. Tired of only being the second choice in his life, the young woman decides on a path of sweet revenge.

She performs a ritual of Gummy Bear voodoo that makes her lose her lover but find her own happiness instead.
She who laughs last laughs best.

with Stephanie St. James, George MacDonald, Cherie Hunt,
Micky Levy and Doug Sept
Director, Writer: Alexa Schulz
Director of Photography: Matthias Grunsky
Editor: Rainer Standke
Composer: Robert F. Trucios
Production: American Film Institute

Camerimage 2002
Cinéma Tout Ecran 2001
Taos Talking Picture 2001
Toronto FF of Independent Film – Planet Indie 2001
** Honorable Mention Best Supporting Actress, Stephanie St.James
Sarasota FF 2001
Sedona International FF 2001
Long Island FF, 2001
La Boca del Lobo Intern. Short Film Festival 2001 and La Boca del Lobo – Tour 2002
St.John’s Intern. Women’s FF 2001

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READY.SET.ART.
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READY.SET.ART.

READY. SET. ART! WHEN ARTISTS WENT FOR GOLD
(Feuer und Flamme für die Kunst)

DOCUMENTARY FILM, D 2012 – 52 MINS

Production: Filmtank Hamburg
Director, Writer: Alexa Oona Schulz
DoP: Matthias Grunsky
Editor: Anke Wiesenthal
Sound: Natalie Muntermann
Music: Gabriel Mounsey

In cooperation with ARTE
In co-production with SWR
Funded by Filmfund Hamburg-Schleswig-Holstein

From 1912 to 1948, always in the course of the Summer Games, also artists could win Olympic gold medals for a painting, a sculpture, a poem, a piece of music, or an architectural design inspired by sport. The Olympic Art Competitions were held in Stockholm, Antwerp, Paris, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Berlin and London. Athletes and artists – hand in hand – stood in the limelight.
The founder of the latter-day Olympic Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, was a passionate and influential Frenchman who believed strongly in the antique greek ideals and wanted to promote them by inspiring artists to reflect about sport, and athletes to express themselves artistically.
The Olympic Art Competitions were held for the last time in London in 1948. However, since 2000 the olympic games feature events, similar to the original art competitions again. “Back to the roots”, back to the unification of body and mind and to Coubertin’s ideals?
Taking this as a point of departure, the film recounts the history of the Olympic Art Competitions against a sport backdrop.

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