Jola Wieczorek is an Austrian Documentary Filmmaker of Polish origin. She is a graduate of the International Master Course in Documentary Film Directing DOC Nomads, that involved studying in Lisbon, Budapest and Brussels. She realised various documentaries that were screened at International Film Festivals a.o. Locarno Film Festival, Vienna Shorts or DocLisboa. Jola ist the founder of the Vienna based production company Fahrenheit Films and teaches documentary filmmaking. Her first feature length documentary Stories from the Sea premiered at the Viennale in October 2021, won the Max Ophüls Preis for Best Music in a Documentary Film and the Local Artist Award at the Crossing Europe. Jola lives in Vienna.
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