Monika Grassl
Director, Editor
Monika Grassl was born in Vienna, Austria. From 2000 to 2005 she studied journalism and graduated by writing a thesis about “The nature of documentary filmmaking”. To put theory into practice, she then studied documentary film directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In 2012 she directed her first documentary WHERE TIME STOPS. Her second film GIRLS DON’T FLY, about Ghanaian girls who face a cultural clash at an aviation school led by a British instructor, had its world premiere at Hot Docs and won the Max Ophüls Prize for Best Documentary. In her latest documentary SCARS OF GROWTH she sheds light on the paradox that mining is set to increase in Europe in the name of the green transition. Since 2016 she has been working as a freelance filmmaker in Paris, France.
