Biography

Caroline Mariko Stucky is an award winning Swiss-Japanese independent filmmaker with a fierce passion for American culture. For Caroline, film, the world of the image, is the ultimate language that trumps the whirling kaleidoscope of spoken languages of her childhood. As a director, the 2013-2014 season has marked the premieres of her two short films "Paper Boats" and "ColorBlind" in New York, as well as the beginning of work for her first feature film.

Stucky also frequently works as a Director of Photography - credits include "Hemingway's Homage to Switzerland" (2012), "The Perfect Bunny" (2013) and Old Junk (2013).

Her various other roles in film have included Assistant director in "Requited Love" (2014), Camera Operator in "Rub it In" (2011), "Snarky Puppy: groundUP" (2012), Assistant Camera in "Deliverance" (2012), "Résurrection" (2012), "Port d'attache" (2012), Production Manager in "The Last Phone Call" (2013), Grip for "Luks Glück" (2009) and "A Story About Ian" (2011).

She has worked on several theater productions, including Pierric Tenthorey's "Homme encadré sur fond blanc" (2010-2012), Domenico Carli's "Boléros" with Atelier C in 2008, "Don Juan" with the Sun & Moon Theater Company in 2008, and Robert Wilson's "In the Evening at Koi Pond" with Change Performing Arts Milano at the 2005 Aichi World Expo in Nagoya.

Caroline Mariko graduated in Screenwriting and Filmmaking from the New York Film Academy in New York, and also studied at the NYFA in Los Angeles. She was in residence at the Locarno International Film Festival Summer Academy in 2010 and completed an Internship at Cinegate in Hamburg in 2009. Stucky also studied History of Cinema at the UNIL in Lausanne.

Ms. Stucky speaks French, English, Japanese, and German, and works most recently in the US, Switzerland, and France.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ariadne Greif