Anka Schmid

• Born — 8 March 1961 • Birthplace — Zurich, Switzerland • Occupation — * Film director • screenwriter • video artist

Anka Schmid is the eldest of three daughters of an engineer and a school teacher and grew up in Zurich, Switzerland. After finishing an all-girls high school in 1980 she began her studies in German philology. In the 1980s she was a member of a street theatre group and a music band, it was also then that she made her first experimental videos and Super 8 films. In 1984 she moved to Berlin and studied at the German Film and Television Academy DFFB (Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin). During her studies at the DFFB she made a number of her own videos and short films on 16mm but also worked as a camera assistant and assistant director in professional productions.

• 1986: Die Reise zur Südsee (script, director, drawings, edit) • 1986: Habibi − Ein Liebesbrief (script, director, edit) • 1986: Herzens-Freude (script, director, animation, edit) • 1989: Techqua Ikachi, Land - My Life (script, director, cinematography) • 1991: Behind Locked Doors (script, director) • 1991: Praktisch und friedlich (script, director) • 1996: Magic Matterhorn (script, director) • 1997: Labyrinth-Projektionen (script, director, cinematography, producer) • 1998: Little Sister (script, director) • 2000: Das Engadiner Wunder (script, director, cinematography, producer) • 2002: Perpetuum Mobile • 2003: ABC Sound Alphabet (script, director) • 2005: Yello – Electropop Made In Switzerland (script, director) • 2007: Rondo Industrial – Found Footage II (Mechanisch & Organisch) (concept, director) • 2007: Shake Hands – Found Footage IV (Diplomatie & Choreografie) • 2009: Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch – Das grosse Spiel (script, director) • 2009: Hierig-Heutig (concept, execution) • 2011: Against All Odds (script, director, cinematography) • 2012: Marzili Badi • 2014: Fe-Male • 2015: Wild Women – Gentle Beasts (script, director)