filmwerkstatt wien

BARBARA WEISSENBECK

filmmaker/producer

2010/11 producer and director of the series Asterix is Back and producing the documentary The Angola Project

2008/09 producer and director of the 52 min. documentary “Singing for Life - The Voices of South Africa”



since 2008 lecturer at the Austrian Center for Film Studies at the Danube University Krems, Austria

2007/08 producer & editor of the 52 min. documentary “From China to Europe and Back“

2006 producer & editor of the 52 min. documentary “TOKIO fortissimo - An Orchestra on Tour”

2005/06 director and producer of the filler series “BACKSTAGE-Are you ready for DANCE?” and the 45 min. documentary “LIFE IS A DRAMA-DRAMA FOR LIFE “

2004-2005 director & producer of a documentary series about the Bass Event “Live from Vienna” taking place in Vienna featuring several international bass players like Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, Wayne Darling, Duncan McTier, Marc Johnson and many others.

2004 director and producer of the documentary “DanceWeb” and imagevideo “Thomastik-Infeld”

2003 director and producer of the 1 hour documentary “Peter Infeld’s Party” – a birthday event in Vienna’s famous jazz club “Porgy & Bess” with special guests like Donovan, Mick Taylor, Lousiana Red, Mary Coughlin, Hans Theessink….(a production of Filmwerkstatt Wien)

1998-2004 production manager and since 2003 taking partly on some producer’s activities at the production company Langbein & Skalnik in Vienna: Managing there more than 40 documentaries - national films for the ORF as well as international co-productions with WDR, ZDF, ARTE, National Geographic, Discovery, RTL, VRT… responsible for international relations in the documentaries market (MIPTV and MIPCOM markets)