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Ula Stöckl is one of Germany’s most important Filmmakers. She has made over 20 films, the majority of which she was screenwriter and producer/co-producer. Her films have been screened at more than 70 festivals and she has been a guest-lecturer at a number of universities. She has also given presentations at the Goethe Institute in many different countries throughout Europe as well as in Australia, America and Canada. Her most successful film is “The Sleep Of Reason”, for which she received the Deutschen Filmpreis (Germany’s most important film prize) in 1984 and the German Critics’ Film Prize. Since the 80s Ula Stöckl has also been active imparting her knowledge and experience to students. She has taught at many institutions, incuding the German Academy For Film And Television in Berlin (dffb) and Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia in the Unites States. Currently she lectures on directing and women and film at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando. As a film expert, she has also been on the selection committee and a jury member of numerous festivals. She demonstrated particular innovation at the International Woman’s Festival Films de Femmes in Paris, where she worked for 15 years since its launch in 1978. Since 1982 she has taken part in the selection committee for the Competition and the Panorama sections of the International Film Festival in Berlin. In addition she has hosted numerous press conferences and audience discussion groups. Since 2002 she has worked as program advisor on the selection committee of the Bienale, the International Film festival in Venice. In 1999 Ula Stöckl was awarded the well-respected Konrad Wolf Film Prize by the Academy of Art in Berlin for her life time achievement.