CLARISSA
SOPHIA
BRANDEIS
Screenwriter
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Clarissa S. Brandeis (born 1984) lives with her son in Vienna. She studied Religious Studies and Cultural and Social Anthropology, receiving her doctorate from the University of Vienna in 2016. Prior to this, she was a PhD Visiting Scholar at the University of Manchester. During her studies, she spent a lot of time in South America and the Caribbean conducting ethnographic research and discovered her love for
ethnographic film. During her studies, she worked on various advertising film productions as a production assistant and production manager. She then completed a screenwriting degree at the Hamburg Media School, during which time she made two short films. Since then, she took part at the Drehbuchwerkstatt München/Steiermark, where she won the Script Talent Award in 2022. She is currently working on feature films and series projects.
2025 / ALTER EGO
Thriller
Buch: Stoffentwicklung bei Diverse Geschichten Wien
2024 / DIE HELLE SEITE DER DUNKELHEIT
Historien-Drama
Buch: In Stoffentwicklung: Österreichisches Filminstitut. Dramaturgie: Robert Buchschwenter
2023 / EZILI (former Blackbirds)
Buch/Regie. Samsara Filmproduktion.
In Stoffentwicklung. Österreichisches Filminstitut Wien.
Slamdance Screenplay Contest: Quarterfinals
2023 / DARK WIDOW
Polyphon Film Gmbh, Serien Konzept - Mysterie
Buch: Clarissa Brandeis
Producerin: Juliane Mieke. In Entwicklung
2022 / DREHBUCHWERKSTATT MÜNCHEN-STEIERMARK
Stipendiatin. Drehbuch: Wenn die Toten Singen. WINNER Script Talent Award 2022. In Entwicklung.
2022 / DER HUND DES PRÄSIDENTEN
Dramaturgin. Buch/Regie: Marco Schleicher. Film 27 Filmproduktion.
2018 / LUZIFER
Künstlerische Assistenz. Regie: Peter Brunner. Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion.
2017 / WE TAKE YOU
Kurzfilm. Drehbuch. Hamburg Media School.
Reflecta Film Festival Artivist Award / Winner // MaxOphüls Preis / Nominee // FünfSeenFestival / Nominee
2016 / YAHRZEIT
Kurzfilm. Drehbuch. Hamburg Media School.
CameraImage Film Festival, Poland - Bronze // „First Step Film Fest"- International Student Film Festival - Albania – Winner // Nassau Film Festival, Canford, USA – Best of Festival
2015 / BEWÄHRUNG
Kurzfilm. Regieassistenz. Hamburg Media School.
︎ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7865519
EDUCATION & SCHOLARSHIPS
DIVERSE GESCHICHTEN Wien 2025, Writing Program Scholarship Vienna
FILM SCHLOARSHIP STADT WIEN 2025
PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC SPECIALIZATION, Analytical Psychology C.G.Jung since 2025
PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROPAEDEUTICS, Psychoanalytic Association Vienna 2021-2024
HFF MUNICH, Screenplay Workshop Munich/Styria: ‘When the Dead Sing’
Script Talent Award Winner 2022
LITERAR MECHANA VIENNA, Screenplay Scholarship 2022/2023
LIK ACADEMY, Diploma Film 2021/22
LIK Summer Academy 2021, Photography
MUNICH FILM WORKSHOP, sponsored by Austrian Film Institute Vienna 2018-2019
HAMBURG MEDIA SCHOOL, FA. Dramaturgy and Screenwriting – MA. Art. 2017
UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, PhD, Religious Studies, Institute for Catholic Theology
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, Institute of Anthropology. PHD Visitor Scholar
UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, Institute for Cultural Studies. IFK Junior Fellow. 2010
UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, MA, Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology 2008