JOHANNA LIETHA.
Screenwriter & Director
JOHANNA LIETHA IS AN AWARDED SCREENWRITER AND DIRECTOR WORKING IN THE FIELDS OF FICTION FILMS AND DRAMA SERIES
CREATIVE APPROACH.
Johanna’s work is characterized by authenticity, heart and humanism, aiming to create cinematic experiences that are both bold and entertaining. She is driven by the belief that the moving image has the power to bring people closer to the shared human experience.
Born and raised in Switzerland, Johanna studied in the UK and is currently based in Austria. She works across Vienna, Zürich, Berlin, London and beyond.
RECENT WORK.
LOVECUT
LOVECUT – Fiction Feature (2020) | Co-written and co-directed with Iliana Estañol
LOVECUT - FICTION FEATURE (2020)
Sex tapes and Skype dates, club nights and dinners with the parents. In a series of episodes, LOVECUT follows six young adults in their search for love, relationships, and physicality. The internet’s anonymity and short-lived nature shape the realities in which the young people try out relationships and explore their own identities. A flickering drift through a phase of life that releases wild energies—productive as well as destructive.
WINNER OF BEST
SCREENPLAY AT MAX
OPHÜLS FILM FESTIVAL 2020
IN DEVELOPMENT.
HEART BEATS
Children’s and family film | 85 min. | AT, CH
HEART BEATS
12-year-old half-orphan Lia reluctantly moves to a new town with her father and keeps both her new patchwork family and her classmates at bay. She causes heavy trouble until a self-made drum set and the family of a schoolmate enable her to express her suppressed grief with her own rhythm.
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY
Johanna Lietha
PRODUCTION:
berg hammer film (AT) | tellfilm (CH) | NGF (AT)
SOUL SONGS
Drama | 90 min.
SOUL SONGS
Aki, a volunteer death care worker, looks after terminally ill former comedian Karl in the last phase of his life. She slips into the role of his long-dead wife, who appears to her as a spirit, and is able to free herself from her own ghosts of the past.
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY
Johanna Lietha