Education

Sophie Narr was born in 1980 and grew up in Berlin. Today she is living in Berlin and Florence (Italy). After working as a professionally trained film and video editor, she studied screenwriting at the German Academy of Film & Television (HFF) - Konrad Wolf in Potsdam, Babelsberg. In 2009 her documentary Der Die Das was released in German cinemas and later broadcasted on national television. Since 2007 her artistic work has been awarded with international awards and grants.

Besides working as an author and director Sophie Narr is teaching visual arts since 2010 with the focus on film and photography projects. The self-developed arts education projects at all times foreground the intense examination of our social environment as well as the self-sense of each participant. Through the medium film, respectively photography the students learn not only to express their points of view artistically and technical, moreover they find access to the counterpart's opinions and attitude towards life. The projects are designed for children, teenagers and adults with or without prior knowledge.

Since 2021 she is a Trainer in teacher training OPERATORI DI EDUCAZIONE VISIVA A SCUOLA (Specialist in Visual Education in Schools) in of the PIANO NAZIONALE CINEMA E IMAGES PER LA SCUOLA (National Programme Cinema and Pictures for Schools) carried out by MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research) and MIBACT (Italian Ministry of Culture).

Filmography

Education

2015 - 2016 RESEARCH QUALIFICATION: Asth Paidea - Aesthetical Education for Children of pre-school age - Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin

2013 - 2014 QUALIFICATION: PROJECT WORK IN ARTS EDUCATION

International professional qualifcation - C&Q Beratung & Bildung, Berlin

2009 - 2011 MASTER'S STUDENT (Meisterschüler) SCREENWRITING

Film and Television Academy (HFF) - Konrad Wolf, Potsdam

2003 - 2008 SCREENWRITING / DRAMATURGY studies

Film and Television Academy (HFF) - Konrad Wolf, Potsdam

2002 GUEST STUTENT: SCREENWRITING

Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Sydney

1999 - 2002 PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FILM AND VIDEO EDITOR

Arbeitskreis Medienpädagogik e.V. Berlin

Teaching

since 2021 OPERATORI DI EDUCAZIONE VISIVA A SCUOLA (Specialists in visual education in schools) – a project of the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) and MIBACT(Ministry of Culture)

Instructor in teacher training

since 2011 KUNSTWELTEN - a project of the Academy of Arts, Berlin

Academic & Hands-on Arts Education for Secondary School Students - nationwide

sinde 2012 TEENS SPECIAL - C/O Berlin Foundation

Academic & Hands-on Art Projects for Adolescents with socially deprived Backgrounds

2014 WINTERREISE - aufBruch e.V.

Practice-orianted documentary film course for juvenile prison inmates

since 2011 JUNIOR & TEENS - C/O Berlin Foundation

Academic & Hands-on Art Projects for Children and Adolescents

2010 HFF - KONRAD WOLF

Meisterschüler - Lecturer, Dokumentary Film Seminar of Prof. Jens Becker