Producer of
BLUISH
Lixi Frank, born in 1987, studied production at the Vienna Film Academy and completed studies in journalism and communication science as well as theater, film and media at the University of Vienna. In 2018 Lixi Frank and David Bohun founded Panama Film as a result of a joint initiative with directors Stefan Bohun and Sebastian Brameshuber.
In 2020 Sandra Wollner’s The Trouble with Being Born premiered at Berlinale Encounters Competition and was awarded with the Special Jury Award as well as with four Austrian Film Awards including Best Feature Film. Beginning of 2023, the documentary Stams, directed by Bernhard Braunstein, premiered at the Berlinale Panorama. Later that year, the trilateral co-production The Universal Theory, directed by Timm Kröger, had its world-premiere in the Competition of the 80th Biennale di Venezia. In 2024 bluish directed by Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky premiered at FID Marseille and won the Grand Prix. Currently, Panama Film is working on new projects of Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter, Sebastian Brameshuber and Sandra Wollner.
Films (selection): DIE INSELN, DIE WIR SIND. (2011, short), ALWAYS ON MY MIND (2014, short), PARADIES! PARADIES! (2016), DIE LAST DER ERINNERUNG (2016, short), KEIN HALBES LEBEN (2018), THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN (2020)