Biography for Shari Yantra Marcacci
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Multi-lingual Director Shari Yantra Marcacci was born in Switzerland and has traveled extensively all over the world. Shari began her career as a classical dancer but due to severe back problems had to stop dancing and went back to school to study law at Zurich University. During her law studies she missed the world of the arts, so in 2001 she moved to Berlin where she started working on experimental video projects and taking acting classes. Shari had always had a link to the world of movies through her work at the Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland and through her brother who is an assistant director/photographer.
In 2003, Shari moved to Los Angeles, where she studied Editing and Photography at UCLA and directing/screenwriting/editing at the Los Angeles Film School in Hollywood. Her first short film, "Room 411, The thin Line between Mania and Depression," was in the official selection of the Trieste Film Festival, Italy. In the year she studied at the Los Angeles Film School's Intensive one year program, Shari worked on the script and production of her thesis film "Nightshift", which is autobiographical. She is interested in stories which are sensitive, intimate and emotional. Currently, she is working on a script for an untitled feature film about a composer/pianist who becomes manic-depressive and how he and his family, especially his daughter a pianist too, deal with it and the strong connection between creativity and mental illness. As in Nightshift, Shari is drawing on her own personal experience - a member of her close family is manic-depressive.
"Nightshift" was in the official selection of the Taormina Film Festival '05, Italy, the "Ohne Kohle" Film Festival '05 in Vienna, Austria, the Anonimul Film Festival, Romania '05, the Openair Festival in Mainz , Germany '05 and is going to be part of the "Night of Short Films" in Lugano, Switzerland.
Multi-lingual Director Shari Yantra Marcacci was born in Switzerland and has traveled extensively all over the world. Shari began her career as a classical dancer but due to severe back problems had to stop dancing and went back to school to study law at Zurich University. During her law studies she missed the world of the arts, so in 2001 she moved to Berlin where she started working on experimental video projects and taking acting classes. Shari had always had a link to the world of movies through her work at the Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland and through her brother who is an assistant director/photographer.
In 2003, Shari moved to Los Angeles, where she studied Editing and Photography at UCLA and directing/screenwriting/editing at the Los Angeles Film School in Hollywood. Her first short film, "Room 411, The thin Line between Mania and Depression," was in the official selection of the Trieste Film Festival, Italy. In the year she studied at the Los Angeles Film School's Intensive one year program, Shari worked on the script and production of her thesis film "Nightshift", which is autobiographical. She is interested in stories which are sensitive, intimate and emotional. Currently, she is working on a script for an untitled feature film about a composer/pianist who becomes manic-depressive and how he and his family, especially his daughter a pianist too, deal with it and the strong connection between creativity and mental illness. As in Nightshift, Shari is drawing on her own personal experience - a member of her close family is manic-depressive.
"Nightshift" was in the official selection of the Taormina Film Festival '05, Italy, the "Ohne Kohle" Film Festival '05 in Vienna, Austria, the Anonimul Film Festival, Romania '05, the Openair Festival in Mainz , Germany '05 and is going to be part of the "Night of Short Films" in Lugano, Switzerland.
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