Wendla Nölle

Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany. Wendla studied Media Engineering in Hamburg at the University of Applied Science focussing on Audio-Visual Production. However, she soon realized she was more interested in working with a camera instead of building one. After working as a production assistant in NYC for different film production companies, she decided to study Visual Communication at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Especially the cinema of her teachers Wim Wenders and Fatih Akin sparked her desire to become a story-teller herself. Her debut feature film "The Chosen Ones" screened at international film festivals, won several prizes (i.a. "Best Documentary" at the Milano Doc Festival), was nominated for the Media Prize Babelsberg and aired on the Franco-German TV network ARTE.

Since 2008, Wendla Nölle has been working as a freelance director for commercials and documentaries in countries like Israel, Indonesia, Slovenia and the USA. She is currently living in Berlin.

Beside directing, Wendla also loves to teach. In 2010, for example, she had the opportunity to show young political refugees from Hamburg and Palestinian filmmakers from the Westbank how to tell their stories cinematically. Wendla is also a regular lecturer for documentary film-making at the SAE Institute in Hamburg.