Mona Cathleen Otterbach
- Art Department
- Production Designer
- Art Director
Mona Cathleen Otterbach, gained her first experience in the creative field of
production design during her internship at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2010.
After she had finished her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in
Stuttgart and the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris in 2014, she was drawn back to film.
She started her production design studies at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in
fall 2014, graduating in spring 2017. Since then, she has been working as a freelance production
designer and art director.
Mona Cathleen became known with feature films such as Sweet Disaster by Laura Lehmus
and Franky Five Star by Birgit Möller, for which she was honored with the special award
for Best Production Design in the feature film category at the Filmz Festival Mainz in 2023.
All of her projects have a connection to surreal worlds and deal playfully with reality.
This is also the case in her new project Milk Teeth by Sophia Bösch, based on the novel by
Helene Bukowski, which is a dystopian story in an unique setting with strong independent
characters. The film celebrates its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam
(IFFR) in January 2024 and is expected to be released in cinemas in autumn/winter 2024.
