Mr. Alemann (2021, United States)
Short Documentary
Running Time: 23 minutes 36 seconds
Director: Stewart Nestor
Producer: Stewart Nestor
Synopsis:
The film chronicles the life of an early pioneer in education filmmaking, and the only known women in that field at the time.
As a successful international journalist, Johanna Alemann would leave that career to enter the male dominated world of filmmaking in 1958. Though little known today, her pioneering work in the educational film market put her among the best of the education filmmakers of that era. Her films were widely sought by schools and universities.
The early life of Johanna Alemann was a perilous one as a teenager and “enemy resident” of Nazi Germany as she went to school to get a journalism degree first in Berlin and later in Prague, Czechoslovakia during WWII. After surviving gunshot wounds in Prague and being rescued by American GI’s, she returned to New York to work as an international journalist and continued in that career until 1958 when she entered the male dominated world of filmmaking.
For the next twenty three years, Johanna made sixteen films for the education film market and her films earned numerous national and international awards. More remarkable than her awards was the fact she did it all, from filming, writing, editing to marketing and distribution and earned a good income from her film business. She was listed in the Who’s Who of Filmmaking and in the Who’s Who of Amerian Women.
Notable Screenings:
- Hollywood New Directors
- Seattle Film Festival
- Tri-Cities International Film Festival
- Silent River Film Festival
- Director’s Cut International Film Festival
