MASCHA SCHILINSKI
DIRECTOR/WRITER
Mascha Schilinski is a writer and director born in Berlin.
Schilinski worked in a children's and youth casting agency for film and television in Potsdam Babelsberg before she spent several years traveling, writing short stories, and performing as a magician and fire-eater with a small traveling Italian circus.
She completed the "Drehbuch-Masterclass" at the Filmschule Hamburg and worked then as a writer. Schilinksi then began her film directing studies at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. Her award-winning medium-length film “Die Katze” was made in her second year of study. In her third year of study, she directed her first feature film “Die Tochter”. The film premiered at the Berlinale 2017 and was nominated for the GWFF Award - Best First Feature. “Die Tochter” screened at more than forty festivals worldwide and won several international awards.
In 2023, she and her co-writer Louise Peter won the Thomas Strittmatter Award for their screenplay “The Doctor say’s I’ll be alright but I’m feelin’ blue”. Mascha Schilinski completed filming on this movie in late summer 2023.
Mascha Schilinski is represented by Patricia Barona.
DIE TOCHTER
COMING UP
the doctor says I’ll be alright but I’m feelin’ blue
Mascha Schilinski’s latest work, the feature film "The Doctor says I’ll be alright but I’m feelin’ blue", is currently in post-production.
VARIA
Mascha Schilinski’s VARIA contribution is in the works. Come back soon to learn more.