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Photographer
Country of origin
Germany

Gabriella Meros grew up in Munich. She graduated at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich before working as an assistant to well-known international photographers. She studied at the ICP in New York in classes also by Sheila Metzner. A jury chaired by Steven Meisel awarded her the first prize for Young International Fashion Photographers at Parsons School of Design. Later she specialized in portraits of mostly film personalities, made a successful career and photographed Steven Spielberg for years. She has applied her style to commercials as well. As a director she was the first female director in Germany to use 3-D technology for commercial clips. For documentary portraits she focusses on Jewish themes. Now she works on projects about her family, the Shoah and wrote her first scripts for documentaries.

 

Current issues

Peter Paul Huth comments favourably on the 2026 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony, highlighting in particular the Golden Lion winner, “Kvinde Ukendt” (Unknown Woman) by May el-Toukhy, and “Un bon petit soldat” by Stéphane Brizé, which won the award for Best Screenplay and the INTERFILM Jury Prize.
Alex Gibney’s documentary *Musk* portrays a ‘hero of capitalism’, whilst Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s *DAU* evokes the victims of Stalinism.

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