Biography
Mona Cathleen Otterbach, born in 1991, gained her first experience in the creative field of pro duction design during her internship at the Film Academy BadenWuerttemberg in 2010. After she had finished her Bachelor of Arts in Archi tecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris in 2014, she was drawn back to film. She started her production design studies at the Film Academy BadenWuerttemberg in fall 2014, graduating in spring 2017.
Mona Cathleen became known with feature films such as "Sweet Disaster" by Laura Lehmus and "Franky Five Star" by Birgit Möller, for which she was honored with the special award for Best Production Design in the feature film category at the Filmz Festival Mainz in 2023. All of her projects have a connection to surreal worlds and deal playfully with reality. This is also the case in her new project "Milchzähne" ("Milk Teeth") by Sophia Bösch, based on the novel by Helene Bukowski. The film celebrates its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in January 2024 and is expected to be released in cinemas in autumn/winter 2024.
She is currently working on other feature films such as "Seven Days of February" by Tatjana Moutchnik and "Drei Kameradinnen" by Milena Aboyan, the latter is based on the book “Sisters in Arms” by Shida Bazyar.
Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH