Eva Weber
Eva Weber (2020) is a German/London based director. She has found acclaim with films like the 27-minute documentary “The Solitary Life of Cranes” (“one of the most absorbing documentaries of the year” – The Observer), the mid-length film “Black Out” (“An eye-opening doc … moves seamlessly between the straightforward and the poetic” – The Hollywood Reporter) and the fiction short “Field Study” (nominated for the European Film Awards). Eva’s multi-award-winning films have screened at 100+ festivals, including Sundance, Telluride, SXSW, Hot Docs, BFI London, True/False, Sheffield and IDFA, and broadcast on US and international television. Eva is the recipient of a Sundance Institute Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award; and a Fellow of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, Directors Lab, and Composers & Sound Design Lab.
As a Logan fellow, Eva will work on her documentary, “Ghost Wives,” which follows a Shanghai-based journalist’s investigation into ghost weddings.