Maria von Heland
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Born25 May 1965
Stockholm, Sweden
Citizenship
- Swedish
AlmamaterCalifornia Institute of the Arts
Occupations
- Screenwriter
- director
Maria von Heland | |
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.jpg) Maria von Heland on set in Hamburg, 2022 | |
| Born | 25 May 1965 Stockholm, Sweden |
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| Alma mater | California Institute of the Arts |
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| Years active | 1997–present |
| Spouse |
Johnny West (m. 2019) |
| Children | 4 |
Maria von Heland (born 25 May 1965) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. She works in English, German, Swedish and French and is based in Berlin, Germany.
Maria von Heland (born 25 May 1965 in Stockholm, Sweden) gained a Bachelor of Arts in journalism at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey after finishing high school in Sweden. From 1990 to 1995 she gained a Master of Fine Arts in directing at the California Institute of the Arts, where she studied under Alexander Mackendrick,[1] and at the School of Film and Video in Los Angeles. During this time she was an exchange student at the Konrad Wolf Akademie for Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany.
