Vita Spiess loves artistic documentaries for the cinema and documentary formats for television. She is particularly interested in accompanying people. She tries to create a special closeness to the protagonists. Her work has taken her to many places around the world, including Oman, Japan, Israel, Egypt, the West Bank, Morocco, Tanzania, Pakistan, Argentina and the USA. Many of her films have been honoured with awards, including 2021 the HessenFilm and MWK awards for best image design for the cinema documentary ‘Heil dich doch Selbst’ by Yasmin C. Rams and 2005 and 2003 the Hessenfilm documentary film prize for ‘Opernfieber’ and for ‘Hauptsache Lehmann’.
She lives in Frankfurt am Main and has been running her own film production company for many years - sehstern Filmproduktion, Spieß & Krausz GbR, together with Reiner Krausz.
Languages
German (Native) I English (fluent) | Spanish (basic)
Special Skills
gimbal
Selected Credits
Sufis - believe love dance| documentary | arte | R: Ursula Beyer | P: Look Film | Germany | 2023
Go heal yourself | documentary | Kino & 3sat | R: Yasmin C. Rams | P: Peranial lens | Germany | 2021
Cross Country- from Frankfurt M. to Frankfurt O. | documentary | Kino | R: Christoph Schuch | P: Avanti Film | Germany | 2021
Sing it loud – Luther's Heirs in Tanzania |documentary | Kino & 3sat | R: Julia I.Peters | P: JIP Film & Verleih | Germany | 2017
Kopfkino - the unknown world of the lucid dreamer |documentary |arte | R: Dittus, Strasser | P: Paolo & Perpermint | Germany | 2013
Opera fever | documentary | Kino & arte |R: K. Rupp |P: sehstern Filmprod. | Barbarossa Film, maximage | Germany, Switzerland | 2005
When Hitchcock met Eiermanns Else in Auerstadt | documentary | Kino | R: B. Lehmann | P:B. Lehmann | Germany | 1999
