Eva Vitija
Screenwriter, Director, Producer
Born in 1973 in Basel, Switzerland. 2002 Diploma in Screenwriting from the DFFB (German Film and Television Academy Berlin). 2015 Master in Documentary Film Directing from the ZHDK (Zurich University of the Arts). Between 2002 and 2012 she wrote numerous feature film screenplays for cinema and television in Switzerland and Germany. She advises other screenwriters as a dramaturge, is on the board of Suissimage's cultural commission and of the Zurich Film Foundation. from 2012-18 board member and vice-president of the Swiss Film Directors and Screenwriters Association. MY LIFE AS A FILM (2015), her first feature-length documentary as a director, was nominated for Best Documentary for the Swiss Film Award and the International Documentary Association IDA Award, Los Angeles, and won the Prix de Soleure, the Basel Film Award and the Zurich Film Award, among others. Her second feature documentary LOVING HIGHSMITH, about the writer Patricia Highsmith, opened the Solothurn Film Festival in 2022, was nominated for the Swiss Film Award, received a Zurich Film Award for dramaturgy and editing and was shown in cinemas in more than 20 countries. THE HEARING (2023) by Lisa Gerig, is Eva Vitija's first work as a producer, together with Maurizius Staerkle Drux, for Ensemble Film in Zurich, where she was a founding partner from 2018-2022. The film was selected for the European Film Awards in 2023 and received the Prix de Soleure, the Zurich Film Award and the Swiss Film Award in 2024. She lives in Zurich.
Filmography
(a selection)
Director
- 2022
- Loving Highsmith by Eva Vitija
- 2015
- Das Leben drehen - Wie mein Vater versuchte, das Glück festzuhalten by Eva Vitija
- 2014
- Storm & Co by Eva Vitija
Screenwriter
- 2022
- Loving Highsmith by Eva Vitija
- 2015
- Das Leben drehen - Wie mein Vater versuchte, das Glück festzuhalten by Eva Vitija
- 2014
- Storm & Co by Eva Vitija
- 2013
- Das alte Haus by Markus Welter
- 2010
- Madly In Love by Anna Luif
- 2010
- Sommervögel by Paul Riniker
- 2003
- Meier Marilyn by Stina Werenfels
Producer
- 2023
- Die Anhörung by Lisa Gerig