WERNER SCHMIEDEL is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, video artist and photographer.

As a filmmaker, he co-photographed and edited Hannah Heer's documentary film, Kol Ishah - The Rabbi is a Woman, which opens a window into the world of four diverse women rabbis.

His previous film work includes the groundbreaking feature length documentary films, The Art of Remembrance-Simon Wiesenthal and The Other Eye; both films were produced by Hannah Heer and Werner Schmiedel. “The Art of Remembrance” has an original score by John Zorn and was short-listed for an Oscar in 1996.

Werner Schmiedel’s films and videos have been invited to prestigious international festivals, such as the Telluride Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Worldwide Video Festival in The Hague, the San Francisco Video Festival, the Bombay Film Festival, the Sao Paulo Film Festival, and many others. His work is also shown at Colleges, Libraries, Community Centers, Synagogues and Museums, and is represented in public and private collections in the USA and in Europe.

In 1985, Werner Schmiedel won the Red Ribbon Award for Best Video at the Video Festival in Columbus, Ohio for his videotape Ele-Va-Tor.