BIOGRAPHY Claudia Rorarius was born in Berlin, Märkisches Viertel. After her photography-studies at the Lette-Verein Berlin, she has been working successfully as a freelance photographer. Her intense portraits of celebrities were published in numerous international newspapers and magazines, such as ZEITmagazin, Spex, WIRE and Wallpaper, among others. At the same time she was studying direction at the renowned Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) where she realized several internationally awarded short- and documentary films, such as »Cable Car« and »Twin« which were honoured »particularly valuable«, among others. Furthermore, she has shot numerous music videos as well as in 2004 the documentary »Susanne« in cooperation with ZDF Television, Das Kleine Fernsehspiel. »Chi l'ha visto (Who Saw Him)« is her first feature-length film, her completely successful feature film debut she also supervised as a producer. The movie was supported by the FFA German Federal Film Board as well as the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW. Recently Claudia Rorarius has been awarded funding by the BKM German Film Board for her second feature film »Touched (WT)«, she has also received pre-production funding from WDR Germany for »Pink Is Black (WT)« and is working on her second photobook "Oma Kreuzberg/leaving else".

FILMOGRAPHY 2019 Ken - The Movie (WT) - in production feature fiction film (aprox. 90 min.) production: Soquietfilms funding by BKM German Film Board German cinema distribution RealFiction Filme 2018/19 Touched (WT) - in financing feature fiction film (aprox. 90 min.) Soquietfilms, co-production with 2 pilots Filmproduction and SWR Television / Stefanie Gross funding by BKM German Film Board eQuinoxe Europe 17. Intl. Writers Lab pre-selected for German Script Award Slate fund by Creative MEDIA Europe 2018/19 Pink Is Black (WT) - in development feature fiction film (aprox. 100 min.) Soquietfilms, co-production with NiKo Film pre-production fund by WDR TELEVISION Andrea Hanke 2010 Chi l'ha visto (Who Saw Him) feature fiction film (92 min.) production: Soquietfilms funded by FFA and Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Cinema release 2011 DVD release via RealFiction/Good!Movies 2011 Red Bull Music Academy Commercials production: Soquietfilms 2006 Videotapes documentary short film serial (80 min.) production: Soquietfilms DVD Release Spex Magazin - DVD Edition

2004 Susanne documentary (80 min.) production: Soquietfilms in co-production with ZDF Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, German TV 2004 What is music? music video for Justus Köhncke production: Soquietfilms Festivals, DVD Release 2002 Blue (happy without you) music video for Donna Regina production: Soquietfilms Festivals, DVD Release 2001 Siblings script for feature film production: Soquietfilms funded by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW 2001 Twin fiction short film (15 min.) production: Soquietfilms funded by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW 2000 Cable Car fiction short film (12 min.) production: Soquietfilms funded by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW 1998 My Granny documentary (30 min.) production: Soquietfilms

EXHIBITIONS 2015 Group exhibition »Jugendsünden« Kulturbunker Mühlheim, Cologne 2013 Kolga Tbilisi Photo Awards, Georgia Shortlisted: »leaving else« Conceptual Category 2012 Solo exhibition »leaving else« Galerie Axel Obiger, Berlin Group exhibition »Tiere gehen immer« Galerie Axel Obiger, Berlin 2011 Group exhibition Portfoliowalk - House of Photography, Hamburg Group exhibition A Picture for Home Schaden's friends collection, Paris Group exhibition »slippy floor« Pavlov's dog Gallery, Berlin 2010 Group exhibition »friendly capitalism« Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin 2009 Group exhibition »Musik + X« Pop-Kultur Goethe-Institut worldwide

2008 Group exhibition bell 02 »Opa Heinz« - puzzle 1500 pieces Gallery Create Berlin 2007 Exchange Program Goethe-Institut Jakarta/Indonesia Photographic work »islamic world« 2006 Main exhibition »Darmstadt Days of Photography« »Self-Perception - Step into the frame« 2006 Solo exhibition "Selected Works 05/06« Int. Photoscene Cologne 2005 Solo exhibition »What It Feels« Room of Arts and Music, Cologne 2000 Group exhibition » nichts als Erfüllung« Int. Photoscene Cologne

CLIENTS (extract) Arte (TV) Brand eins Blond Bolzen Brigitte Camera Austria CBC Cologne (TV) Chatelaine (FR) Courrier Int. (FR) Debug DDB Düsseldorf (Com) Dummy Elle (FR) Elle (KAN) Eltern Esquire (US) Fluter Focus Frankfurter Rundschau Groove Intro Jetzt Magazin Job&Future KSP (Com) Kircher Burkhardt (Com) Leo Burnett (Com) LOT Theater Maxi MetaDesign (Com) Missy Magazin Musikexpress Monopol Neon New Yorker

Ogilvy & Mather (Com) Photonews Pixelpark (Com) Public Folder Plock Pro 7 (TV) Red Bull (Com) Rolling Stone (D) SPEX Stadtrevue Süddeutsche Zeitung Stern Stern Gesund Leben Style and the Family Tunes Super RTL (TV) SZ Magazin Vanity Fair The Wire (UK) VIVA (TV) VOX (TV) Wallpaper (UK) WDR (TV) Wir Design (Com) WIRE (US) W Magazine (US) Yadastar (Com) Young Miss Die Zeit ZDF (TV) Zeit-Leben ZEIT magazin Zenith Zoo-Magazin (UK) Züricher Zeitung

AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2017 »Touched (WT)« Slate fund by Creative MEDIA Europe (2 pilots) 2016 »Touched (WT)« pre-selected for German Script Award 2015 Invitation »Touched (WT)« eQuinoxe Europe 17. Intl. Screenwriters Workshop Pre-Production fund »Pink Is Black (WT)« by WDR German TV 2014 Script Funding »Touched (WT)« by BKM German Film Board (Ministry of Culture and Media) 2009 Nomination »Chi l'ha visto« for »Best Feature Film« »Best Director« »Best Actor«, Torino Int. Film Festival, Italy Merit Certificate, Film Rating Board for »Chi l'ha visto« 2008 Production Grant »Chi l'ha visto« Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and FFA German Film Board 2005 Nomination Toyota Foto-Award 2003 DAAD - Fellowship Film London (UK) 2002 2. Prize Chicago Int. Children's Film Festival, short film »Cable Car« 2001 Merit Certificate, Film Rating Board for short film »Twin« 2001 Special Merit Certificate, Film Rating Board for short film »Cable Car« 2001 Nomination First Steps Award short film »Twin«

EDUCATION 1995 - 2000 studies of Art and Film Directing at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne 1992 - 1994 studies of Photography at the Lette-Foundation, Berlin 1991 - 1992 studies of Printing at the University of Fine Arts, Berlin

TRAINING 2014-17 Master class »creating characters« Susan Batson (NY, USA) 2016 Master class »Improvisation Keith Jonstone (Calgary, Kanada) 2012/13 Script development program Filmhaus Babelsberg Roland Zag, Nicole Kellerhals (X Filme) funded by FFA 2012 Master class »scene study« Larry Moss (LA, USA) 2011/12 Master class »creating characters« Susan Batson (NY, USA) 2009 Master class »script writing« Tom Schlesinger and Keith Cunningham 2004 Master classes, »directing« Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Stephen Frears (Berlinale Talent Campus) 2003 Acting workshop John Costopoulos (Actors Studio NY, USA)

2002 Master class »script writing« Tom Schlesinger and Keith Cunningham 2000 Master class »editing« Roberto Perpignani »Il Postino« 1999 Master class »directing«, Peter Lilienthal Jeanine Meerapfel, Friedemann Fromm

EMPLOYMENT 2000 - today author, director and producer for fiction- and documentary films, commercials and music videos 2013 - today instructor, lecturer and teacher of film and media art at Lette-Verein Berlin 1994 - 2000 assistent director for shorts films and TV Series (WDR) 1993 - 2004 TV-designer for ARTE, VIVA, VOX, RTL, WDR 1992 - today freelance photographer, publications in various int. newspapers and magazines, commercial and corporate work