Lea Becker is a writer and director, working both in fiction and nonfiction for television and the big screen.
Most recently, Lea directed three episodes for SOKO — one of the
longest-running German crime series — and will return in 2020 to direct three more episodes. In 2019, Lea also wrote and directed the feature-length documentary A PERFECT RUN, her graduation project for the University of Television and Film Munich, commissioned by the German public broadcaster ZDF. In the same year, her documentary web series TRUE STORIES was licensed to Samsung TV, which has generated over 5 million views. Since 2015, Lea has created, produced and shot around 100 episodes.
In 2016, Lea wrote, produced and directed the acclaimed short film
JENNY. It was nominated for the 2017 German Short Film Award and the Best Short Film Award at the Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis. It won the Newcomer Award for Best Actor and the Bavarian Film Commission Award. Shortly after, she was offered to create, write and direct the miniseries HIT AND RUN in 2018.
Lea is currently writing her debut feature REBECCA (WT) in Los
Angeles, a psychothriller about a traumatized German police officer taking revenge on her abusive American wife. It will be produced by Pssst Film!, a subsidiary of Constantin Film.
Many of Lea’s films have been invited to international film festivals — most notably the Berlinale. At the Stockholm International Film Festival in 2013, Lea won the Online Audience Award for her debut documentary short, SWEAR.
Lea holds a BA from the University of the Arts in London and the Cooper Union in New York and an MA from the University of Television and Film in Munich.