Photographers
1991, a port city on the Black Sea, the last day of the Soviet Empire. Three photographers with entirely different approaches to their art are set on a quest for a perfect shoot. Their paths never cross, yet in the course of a single day, each of them encounters a young woman—Lera—and plays a part in her ordeal. As they seek to control or capture the personal reality, the fate of the region is also in play.
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Project Type:Screenplay
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Genres:Drama, Art
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Number of Pages:85
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Language:English, Georgian, Ukrainian
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
HELGA LANDAUER is a New York-based filmmaker and poet.
After graduating from the Gerasimov Film Institute she has lived and worked in the United States since 1996 as a filmmaker and writer of numerous screenplays for feature, animation and documentary features. The films she directed include Being Far from Venice (1998), A Journey of Dmitry Shostakovich (2006, co-directed with Oksana Dvornichenko), A Film About Anna Akhmatova (2008), Diversions (2009), Objects in Mirror are Closer than They Appear (2011) and Arcadia (2015). They have been screened at many international film festivals and significant American and European venues, including the Louvre, Carnegie Hall, Modern Art Museum, Tribeca Film Institute, etc.
One of the recent movies she wrote, Crystal Swan (dir. Darya Zhuk) was selected as Belarusian entry for the best foreign language film at the 91 Academy Awards.
She has authored seven books of poetry under the name of Helga Olshvang: her collections of poems have also been published and reviewed in preeminent literary magazines and anthologies, including The Plume, Translit, Modern Poetry in Translation among others.
Her most recent film, William and Fred (2024), won awards for Best Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Actor at film festivals worldwide including the Toronto International Women's Film Festival and Madrid International Film Festival, and received the Tarkovski Grant. William Fred stars Paul Lazar of The Silence of the Lambs, Snowpiercer, Mickey Blue Eyes, and The Host and premiered at the Manhattan Independent Film Festival in November 2024.
