Angelina Maccarone
Angelina Maccarone (born 1965) is a German filmmaker and screenwriter whose work often centres on queer identity and outsider perspectives. Born in Cologne to a German mother and an Italian guest-worker father, she moved to Hamburg in 1985 to study German and American literature with a media focus, contributing song lyrics for Udo Lindenberg along the way. She began her professional screenwriting career in 1992 with a Hamburg Department of Culture treatment award for a queer-themed project, and built her reputation with films exploring gender, migration, and sexuality. Her breakthrough feature, Fremde Haut (Unveiled, 2005), about an Iranian lesbian woman fleeing persecution and assuming a male identity to seek asylum in Germany, won the Hessian Film Award for Best Feature Film. Maccarone teaches directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb).