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Uta Briesewitz Talks ‘American Sweatshop’, Early Days On ‘The Wire’ & The Hollywood Agent Who Told Her: “Nobody Wants To Work With A Female DP”
Uta Briesewitz on directing ‘American Sweatshop,’ the challenges she faced as a Female DP, and lessons from ‘The Wire’ at Munich Film Festival.
Briesewitz was joined by Anita Elsani, who produced American Sweatshop, and she brought the film’s DOP Jörg Widmer onto the stage during the session, which was organized by the Kirch Foundation and hosted by Deadline. American Sweatshop stars Lili Reinhart as Daisy, a young woman whose job is to evaluate harmful and offensive content on social media. Briesewitz went to film school in the U.S. and trained as a cinematographer and her early work included Brad Anderson’s Sundance movie Next Stop Wonderland and David Simon’s seminal HBO series The Wire.
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