JOHANNA LIETHA
Screenwriter & Director
JOHANNA LIETHA IS AN AWARDED SCREENWRITER AND DIRECTOR WORKING IN THE FIELDS OF FICTION FILMS AND DRAMA SERIES
ABOUT
Her creative approach lies in stories told with humanism, heart and humor. She aims to create truthful yet entertaining fiction, believing in the power of authenticity and enthusiasm.
She was born and raised in Switzerland, studied in the UK, and is currently based in Austria. She works in Vienna, Zürich, Berlin, London and elsewhere.
RECENT WORK.
LOVECUT
LOVECUT – Fiction Feature (2020) | Winner of Best Screenplay at Max Ophüls Film Festival 2020
LOVECUT - FICTION FEATURE (2020)
Sex tapes and Skype dates, club nights and dinners with the parents. In a series of episodes, LOVECUT follows six young adults in their search for love, relationships, and physicality. The internet’s anonymity and short-lived nature shape the realities in which the young people try out relationships and explore their own identities. A flickering drift through a phase of life that releases wild energies—productive as well as destructive.
WINNER OF BEST
SCREENPLAY AT MAX
OPHÜLS FILM FESTIVAL 2020
IN DEVELOPMENT.
HEART BEATS
Children’s and family film | 85 min. | AT, CH
HEART BEATS
12-year-old half-orphan Lia reluctantly moves to a new town with her father and keeps both her new patchwork family and her classmates at bay. She causes heavy trouble until a self-made drum set and the family of a schoolmate enable her to express her suppressed grief with her own rhythm.
WRITTEN & DIRECTED
By Johanna Lietha
PRODUCTION:
berg hammer film (AT) | tellfilm (CH) | NGF (AT)
SOUL SONGS
DRAMA | 90 MIN.
Aki, a volunteer death care worker, looks after terminally ill former comedian Karl in the last phase of his life. She slips into the role of his long-dead wife, who appears to her as a spirit, and is able to free herself from her own ghosts of the past.
WRITTEN & DIRECTED
By Johanna Lietha