Our guest this week was the Writer/Producer/Director/Filmmaker Success Client Maria Petschnig. Maria's latest feature film "Beautiful and Neat Room" just had its world premiere at the 30th Split Film Festival in Croatia, where it received the Grand Prix award. This film was funded using strategies from Joanne Butcher's "Filmmaker Success" program.To obtain the Zoom link for upcoming live interviews, you must register at The Filmmaker's Life webpage at https://www.filmmakersuccess.com/the-filmmakers-life-home_____________________________________________________Maria's IMDB https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3401562/Watch the trailer for "Uncomfortably Comfortable" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkM_YUKTZKM_____________________________________________________Maria Petschnig is an award-winning Austrian born filmmaker, producer, writer and artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Maria was originally trained as a painter and gradually transitioned towards the moving image, having worked across media including live performance, photography and immersive installation, exhibiting at renowned museums and galleries. Her work has been screened and exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally including venues such as: Anthology Film Archives, New York; MoMA PS1; Mumok, Vienna; Documentary Film Week, Hamburg; IFFR Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands; and Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin.She has made twenty-plus experimental films and a feature documentary, “Uncomfortably Comfortable”, which earned acclaim at the 2021 Duisburger Film Woche, where it won the ARTE documentary award. It is a film (portrait) of Marc, a houseless person living in his car in Brooklyn. The film deals with the difficulties of trying to exist on the fringes of society, of trauma, and is an attempt to understand the racial realities of people of color. “Beautiful and Neat Room”, (118 min, 2025) her latest feature narrative film is inspired by her own experiences of cohabitating with other people, having shared her living space with more than 60 roommates over the course of 22 years. She has told The New York Times that sharing her apartment was “a way to survive as an artist in New York City”. The film screened in the international feature competition at the 30th Split Film Festival in Croatia and received the Grand Prix award.#femalefilmmaker #womeninfilm #artistfilmmaker #joannefilm #filmbusinesscoach #featurefilmmaker #filmpodcast