About the Producer:
Anja Marquardt is a filmmaker based in Berlin and New York and has been involved in the production of several short and feature films in Europe and the United States. Born in the western part of Berlin, Germany Anja grew up in the divided city and became a traveler soon after the European borders began to vanish after 1989, exploring and living in places such as Arizona, Granada, Grenoble, Strasbourg, and Laos. An alumna of the Berlin University of the Arts, her main focus was understanding the dramaturgy of films. She has worked in development/production with various European co-productions while working as temporoary commissioning editor at European TV channel ARTE 's fiction department in Strasbourg, France (2006). Anja has worked for directors such as Hans-Christian Schmid and Angela Schanelec in Germany, and assisted executive producer Gian-Piero Ringel during production of Nachmittag (Berlin Int. Film Festival 2007) and during pre-production of Palermo Shooting by Wim Wenders (Cannes 2008). She also worked in the camera department of feature documentary Football Under Cover (dir: David Assmann, Ayat Najafi) that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival 2008. Anja currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, working on several short films and as producer on a documentary feature (Odysseus in America), while completing her M.F.A. at New York University's graduate film program.
Editing:
Mollye Asher and Josef Wladyka
Film synopsis:
“Slim and Lena” is a modern film noir set in the grit and glamour of the neo-burlesque scene. The story begins, narrated by Slim, when he returns to NYC to settle a beef with Big Daddy, the proprietor of a hip burlesque lounge on the Lower East Side. When Slim discovers that his long lost true love, sweet Lena, has become a burlesque dancer; the typical roles of a noir are turned on their head. Packed with love, sex, and redemption, “Slim and Lena” is the story of how Lena finds her voice and becomes the heroine and narrator of her own story.
