Being in their early 30s—and though they’re students at Film Academy Vienna, they’re also already in demand as camera operators.

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.

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.

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.

The Film Academy Vienna remains Austria’s only university-level place of training for future film professionals, thus occupying a central place within Austrian film history.