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	valérie lasserre was born in ravensburg/southwest germany in 1976. until 1996 she went to high schools in kaiserslautern, aulendorf, biberach an der riss. in 1994 she fotographed her first video, a docu–movie (15 min) called ‘black market’. the next two films she made (camera woman and cutter) were about a poetic performance and an open air music festival. the 15–minutes– docu–video ‘against forgetting’ (produced in 1995) won several awards: 1st award of the zdf–‘logo’– editorial staff (mainz ’95), 1st award from the ‘federal youth film festival’ (potsdam ’95, section ‘totally real’), 3rd award of the ‘1st bavarian youth film festival’ (munich ’95), encourage award of the ‘pupil’s film festival’ (reutlingen ’96). for ‘lost in illusions’ ('96) she was a co–					herbert meise as ‘mephisto’. © 1996 armin teufel				producer, director, co–screen– writer, camera woman and cutter. the film got a money award: ‘best debut film’ at the verden film festival in 1997. in ’97 and ’98 she did practical courses: german tv–stations zdf, swf, 3sat. also at arri, munich (camera and postproduction). hans funck, cutter of the cinema movie ‘st. pauli nacht’ by sönke wortmann, edited her trailer made for the jugendkunstschule biberach. in 1997 she co–founded the multi– media workshop in biberach and was responsible for financial scheme and program. she produced several cinema trailers and worked in screendesign. 1998 she studied at the academy for philosophy in munich. now she lives in berlin, too, preparing for a career as an actress in an acting studio. nevertheless she wants to become a film director.