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MICHAEL PODOGIL was born in 1985 in Vienna. While he was studying at the Technical University of Vienna, he accomplished small film projects and attended Rockport International Film School in Rockport, Maine (USA). In 2009 he was accepted into Vienna Film Academy where Michael earned his second bachelor’s degree in the class of Michael Haneke.
His short films won prizes at festivals around the world. In 2015 he was awarded the prestigious CARL MAYER-FÖRDERPREIS — one of Austria’s most important scriptwriting awards — at the Diagonale Graz. Michael’s short film »FUCKING DRAMA« received a nomination for Best Live Action at the 2017 BAFTA Student Film Awards in Los Angeles. 2018 he won the prestigious 13th Street Shocking Shorts at the film festival Munich.
During his time at the Film Academy, he worked with Austria’s National Theatre, the Burgtheater, and started teaching Film and Photography at a local secondary school. He also got hired to direct several ads, where he was able to refine his skills in a commercial setting.
After co-writing and directing his first mini TV series, »Prost Mortem«, which got nominated at the Jupiter Awards 2020 for BEST NATIONAL TV SHOW in Germany, he directed the third season of »Meiberger«, starring Fritz Karl and Cornelius Obonya, and a year later the series’s spin-off feature film »Mörderisches Klassentreffen«.
His television project »DER METZGER traut sich«, starring Simon Schwarz, premiered as the opening film at Filmfestival Kitzbühel and was nominated at TeleVisionale Baden-Baden for TELEVISION FILM AWARD 2023. A year later, he directed the second part of the series: »DER METZGER - Mordstheater«.
FESTIVALS / AWARDS
(selection)
DER METZGER traut sich
Filmfestival Kitzbühel (Austria), August 2023 - OPENING NIGHT
TeleVisionale Baden-Baden (Germany), December 2023
Prost Mortem
21. Internationale Eyes & Ears Awards - BEST OPENING CREDITS: FICTION
Jupiter Award 2020 - NOMINATION FOR 'BEST NATIONAL TV SHOW'
FUCKING DRAMA
Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films (Graz, Austria), March/April 2017
BAFTA Student Film Awards (Los Angeles), May 2017 - FINALIST FOR BEST LIVE ACTION
International Film Schools Festival (Uruguay), August 2017 - WINNER BEST FICTION
51. Internationalen Hofer Filmtage (Germany), October 2017
International FRONTALE Filmfestival (Austria), November 2017
30. Foyle Film Festival (Ireland), November 2017
4. Short Movie Club Film Festival (Belarus), February 2018
12th River Film Festival (Italy), May 2018 - WINNER GOLDEN RIVER / WINNER AUDIENCE CHOICE
SHORT TO THE POINT 2018 annual Awards - WINNER BEST FILM
19. Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival (Germany), March 2018 - OPENING NIGHT
Austrian American Short Film Festival (NY, USA), March 2018 - WINNER NARRATIVE AUSTRIA AWARD
Aaretaler Kurzfilmtage (Switzerland), November 2018 - WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD 2nd PLACE
Bermuda International Film Festival (USA), March 2018
Festival du Cinéma Européen (Lille, France), April 2018
Discover Film Festival (London), April 2018 - WINNER BEST STUDENT FILM / WINNER BEST ACTOR
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (Tokyo), June 2018
46th Huesca International Film Festival (Spain), June 2018 - INT. DANZANTE AWARD ‘FIRST WORK’
21. Dances With Films (TCL Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles), June 2018
Asolo Art Film Festival (Italy), June 2018
13th Street SHOCKING SHORTS (Germany), July 2018 - WINNER
Odense International Film Festival (Denmark), August 2018
33. ALPINALE Kurzfilmfestival (Austria), August 2018
15th IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival (Bulgaria), June 2018
Transilvania Shorts (Romania), June 2018
BSL Kurzfilmfestival (Austria), June 2018 - WINNER BEST PICTURE / WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD
Revelation Film Festival (Western Australia), July 2018
Maykop International Film Festival (Russia), July 2018 - WINNER BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
17° Concorto Film Festival (Italy), August 2018
12. Fünf Seen Filmfestival (Germany), September 2018
Aesthetica Short Film Festival (UK), November 2018
Austrian Independent Filmfestival (Austria), October 2018 - BEST SHORT / GENRE AWARD THRILLER
El Festival Internacional PIRIÁPOLIS DE PELÍCULA de Uruguay, August 2018
The Makers International Short Film Festival (India), September 2018 - WINNER BEST STORY
Court en Scène (France), November 2018
New Delhi Film Festival (India), September 2018
7th Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival (UK), October 2018
August 2018 edition of the Moscow Shorts Awards - BEST FILM, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY
Amsterdam Lift-Off 2018 (Netherlands), October 2018 - SPECIAL MENTION
69th Montecatini International Short Film Festival (Italy), October 2018
Craghoppers Film Prize (UK), October 2018 - 2ND PRIZE
69th Montecatini International Short Film Festival (Italy), October 2018
Student International Film Festival (Croatia), October 2018
39TH European Short Film Festival of Villeurbanne (France), November 2018
Salto Independent Film Festival (Uruguay), October 2018
19. Festival de estrenos de cortometrajes (Spain), December 2018 - AUDIENCE AWARD
Sydney Lift-Off Film Festival (Australia), November 2018 - BEST SHORT LIVE ACTION NARRATIVE
6th Short Film Breaks (Romania), January 2019 - Golden Elephant BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
9th Tournai Ramdam Festival (Belgium), January 2019 - MOST DISTURBING SHORT
jellyFEST Film Festival (Los Angeles), January 2019 - BEST ACTOR
Lift-Off Global Network (London), January 2019 - Season Award 2018 for BEST ACTOR
Indie-Lincs (UK), February 2019 - BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT
Arc Filmfestival Mainz (Germany), April 2019
DTFF (Germany), June 2019
11th Fastnet Film Festival (Ireland), May 2019 - BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Annual Awards Moscow Shorts (Russia), August 2019 - BEST FILM, BEST SCREENPLAY
Der arme Peter / POOR PETER
22nd Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival (Bristol, UK), September 2016
Gudrun von Laxenburg: Revolution
VIS – Vienna Independent Shorts (Austria), May 2015
Encounters Shortfilm and Animation Festival (UK), September 2015
Cannes Short Film Festival (France), September 2015 - WINNER BEST SCI-FI
Busan International Short Film Festival (Korea), April 2016
WIE SIMON SEINEN VATER VERLOR / HOW SIMON LOST HIS FATHER
12th Alicante Filmfestival (Spain), May/June 2015
Ariano International Film Festival (Italy), July/August 2015
20. Portobello Film Festival (London), September 2015
FILMZ-Festival – Festival des deutschen Kinos (Germany), November 2015
14th Int. Student and Video Festival of Beijing Film Academy (China), Oktober 2015
FRÜHLING / SPRING
Videonale – Video- und Filmwettbewerb, Berlin (Germany), February 2015
Festival Tagliacorti, Triest (Italy), March 2015
Cellu l’art – Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Jena (Germany), April 2015
43. Festival der Nationen, Lenzing (Austria), June 2015
DC Shorts – Filmfestival Competition, Washington D.C. (USA), September 2015
12th FMK International Short Film Festival (Italy), July 2015
Shortynale Kurzfilmfestival, Klosterneuburg (Austria), August 2015
15th Festival Internacional de Escuelas de Cine (Uruguay), August 2015
20. Portobello Film Festival (London), September 2015
Das filmzeitkaufbeuren (Germany), October 2015
16. Calgary International Film Festival (Canada), September 2015
The 5th International Short Film Festival of Cyprus (Cyprus), October 2015
14. Magma International Short Film Festival Acireale (Italy), November 2015
24th St. Louis International Film Festival (USA), November 2015
29. Braunschweig International Film Festival (Germany), November 2015
2. inklusive Kurzfilmfestival KLAPPE AUF! (Germany), December 2015
10. Taos Shortz Film Festivals (New Mexico, USA), April 2016
Alfred
8th CMS International Children’s Film Festival (Lucknow, India), April 2016
Shortynale Kurzfilmfestival Klosterneuburg (Österreich), August 2017
FILMOGRAPHY
(selection)
2024
"DER METZGER - Mordstheater"
(TV - movie, 89 min)
2023
"DER METZGER traut sich"
(TV - movie, 89 min)
2021
"Meiberger - Mörderisches Klassentreffen"
(TV - movie, 89 min)
2020
"Meiberger - Season 3"
(TV - series, 4x 46 min)
2019
"Prost Mortem"
(TV - series, 4x 21 min)
2018
"Almdudler Würstelstand"
(3x viral spot; 50 sec))
2018
"DREI - WAS DAS ?"
(6x viral spot; 50 sec)
2018
"Dacia Duster Neujahrsknall"
(live FB-show; 90 min; over 80.000 comments)
2017
"RENAULT - B2B Flottenkampagne"
(3x viral spot; 20 sec)
2017
"Stiegl - the shortfilm"
(viral spot; 5 min)
2017
"DANCEMACHINE"
(musicvideo with Nadine Beiler; co-director Sebastian Mayr)
2017
"McCafé - Blogger"
(viral spots; 4x 20 sec)
2017
"FUCKING DRAMA"
(short film; 17 min)
2016
"Almdudler streaker"
(interactive viral spot; 90 s)
2016
"DESPERADOS JodelBattle"
(viral spot; 90 s)
2015
"der Arme Peter / poor Peter"
(artfilm / musicvideo; 2 min; in cooperation with ORF)
2015
"Alfred"
(mockumentary; 8 min)
2015
"Abhörraum / listening room"
(exhibition video: 200 years vienna congress; 4 min)
2015
"Zipfer Helle Pause"
(viral spot; 90 sec)
2014
"T-Mobile: Wechselhaft"
(TV-spot; 35 mm; 10 sec)
2014
"Gudrun von Laxenburg: Revolution"
(musicvideo / short film; 8 min; co-director of Sebastian Mayr)
2014
"Frühling / Spring"
(short film; 3 min)
2014
"Von Roma und Gadsche / About Roma and Gadsche"
(documentary; 43 min)
2014
"Wie Simon seinen Vater verlor / How Simon Lost His Father"
(short film; 22 min)
2013
"ELGA"
(TV-spot; 45 sec)
2013
"Max Steiner Orchestra"
(viral spot; 3 sec)
2012
"Cultus: Karfreitag, Maria Himmelfahrt"
(2x documentary; 12 min; ORF)
2012
"Stuhleck Ski Resort: Dog-spot"
(viral spot ; 60s)
2011
"Save Way 2 School"
(spot for road traffic safety; 5 min)
2011
"Die größte Sängerbörse der Welt"
(documentary; 30 min; ORF)
2011
"Jugend ohne Bank"
(brand film Sparkasse; 20 min)
2011
"The Horror the Horror: Wilderness"
(music video)
2011
"Es gibt kein Schwarz Weiss / there is no black or white"
(short film; 16 mm; 6 min)
