Director
Mirjam Unger
Mirjam Unger, born 1970 in Klosterneuburg near Vienna, lives and works as a film director, screenwriter, presenter and photographer in Vienna. She studied directing at the Vienna Film Academy from 1993 to 2001 and produced a number of short films during this time which won awards at international festivals. With "Vienna's Lost Daughters" she brought her first documentary film to the cinema in 2007 and won the audience award at the Diagonale.
At ORF, Mirjam Unger also worked as a presenter and reporter for the Ö3 radio programme "ZickZack" in the 90s, and presented and designed the youth programme "X-Large" and the magazine "Nitebox" for television. She still regularly hosts the programmes "Connected" and "Homebase" on the Austrian radio station FM4.
Her current feature film "Fly Away Home" is based on the novel of the same name by the celebrated Austrian author of children's and young people's books Christine Nöstlinger and was the opening film of the Diagonale 2016, where Ursula Strauss also won the award for Best Actress for her role as the mother of Nöstlinger's alter ego Christl. After the 2016 cinema release in Austria on the occasion of Christine Nöstlinger's 80th birthday, "Fly Away Home" will be released in German cinemas in April 2017.
Filmography (Selection)
2016: "Fly Away Home", Cinema feature film, 110 mins.
2015: "Meine Narbe", TV documentary, 60 mins.
2015: "Armut ist kein Kinderspiel", TV documentary, 45 mins.
2012: "Oh Yeah, She Performs!", Feature-length documentary, 98 mins.
2007: "Vienna’s Lost Daughters", Feature-length documentary, 87 mins.
2000: "Ternitz, Tennessee", Cinema feature film, 88 mins.
1998: "More or Less", Short film, 20 mins.
1997: "Speak Easy", Short film, 23 mins.
1996: "Nachricht von H.", Short film, 13 mins.