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Annette Apitz (USA/Germany)

Script Revision Lab 2024


Annette Apitz

Biography

Annette Apitz was born in Germany and grew up in the United States.

She received her B.A. at McGill University in Montreal and her M.F.A. in Film from Columbia University in New York City.

She received the New Line Cinema Award at Columbia University, and her short films won awards and screened at film festivals such as Tribeca, Hamptons, Florida, Austin, BBC and Palm Springs, among many others.

Her films have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, the Baltimore Museum of Art, on PBS, HBO Latin America, WB, Amazon and Hulu.

The Forger

When two sisters return to their ancestral family home on the outskirts of Berlin after their father’s death, they are confronted with the history of their family in 1940s Germany, the memories of their own troubled childhood, and the dark underbelly of a seemingly idyllic summer.