Jannis Lenz

* 1983, Germany

Jannis Lenz (* 1983 Filderstadt, Germany) studied Directing in the Masters Programme of Jessica Hausner at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where he also worked as an assistant for Michael Haneke.

He is a  Berlinale Talents Alumni, received the the Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award, the Distinction of the Society of Fine Artists Austria, the START Scholarship for Cinematic Art by the Austrian Ministry of Culture and is an official member of the European Film Academy.

Grown up in Germany, he collected his first camera and directing experiences by filming himself and his friends doing...