Raquel Stern

Agent: Jonathan Kinnersley ([email protected])

Raquel Stern is a US-born director and screenwriter living in Berlin, Germany. She directs for the long-running German teen soap opera SCHLOSS EINSTEIN. Her original web series PITY FU*K screened at film and web series festivals internationally and was nominated for the Achtung Berlin - New Berlin Film Award.

Raquel has original projects in development with Tobis Film, Constantin Television (Germany), and Frenchkiss Pictures (France). She has also worked in writers rooms on projects developed by UFA Fiction, Neue Super, and Bon Voyage Films (Germany). In 2018, Raquel and her co-writer Donna Sharpe were awarded a grant from the FFA (German Federal Film Board) to develop MISS HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, a dramedy feature film.

Before returning to writing and directing, Raquel worked as an assistant editor on such projects as Lana and Lilly Wachowski's JUPITER ASCENDING and Laura Poitras’ Oscar-winning documentary CITIZENFOUR.

Raquel holds a B.F.A in Film & TV Production from New York University and an M.F.A. in screenwriting and dramaturgy, with a concentration in serial writing, from Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf.

EVEN CLOSER - HAUTNAH Director Series (6 x 30 min.) UFA Serial Drama TVNow (RTL)

DIE ALLERLETZTE Writer Series (7 x 30 min.) In development with Bon Voyage Films Sky Germany

SCHLOSS EINSTEIN Director, 4 episodes Series (25 x 25 min.) Saxonia Media PITY FU*K Director/Writer/Creator Web series (3 x 8 min.)

ALICE & KITTY Director/Writer Short film

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