Biography
Karen Sztajnberg is a Brazilian born, filmmaker and video-artist who came to New York with a Fulbright scholarship. Her first produced fiction feature film Casa Grande, which Karen wrote and edited, premiered in competition at Rotterdam in 2014 and went on to have an award winning track on the international festival circuit, including passages through San Sebastian, BFI London and CPH: PIX. It is currently distributed theatrically in Brazil, France, Benelux and Canada.
Prior to that, Karen was the recipient of the Sloan Foundation Award for Volatile another feature screenplay she wrote while getting her MFA degree at Columbia University. Her extensive background as an editor in documentary and television heavily informs her artistic and screenwriting work. Her video art installation The Narrative of Inadequacy: New York participated in Boccacio’s anniversary celebration in his birth town in Florence, Italy, and was also screened in The Armory Center for the Arts, in Los Angeles, in addition to galleries in Madrid, Berlin and Istanbul.
