The search for actors, locations, and appropriate costumes is nerve-racking, waiting for funding requests to be approved or rejected wears you down, and filming itself is an ordeal.

Since 2016, Sebastian Höglinger and Peter Schernhuber have headed Diagonale—Festival of Austrian Film.

Opera singer and porn producer—two professions you virtually never encounter in one and the same résumé. But Adrineh Simonian is an exception.

Kitty Kino, one of the first women to graduate from the directing programme of Film Academy Vienna, looks back on a long and multifaceted career.

In films, we often hear sounds that we perceive barely or not at all in real life.

To this day, Film Academy Vienna is Austria’s only university-level institution for the training of film professionals.

mdw graduate Lixi Frank about the fascination of film production, teamwork, the production environment, and cinema in general.

Together with his colleagues from coop99, Film Academy graduate Antonin Svoboda is among Austria’s most successful producers and directors.