Biography

Among Matija Strnisa's latest projects is the David Wnendt directed episode A Light Blue Day of the anthology Punishment as well as the 7-part TV-series Glauben (The Allegation) by director Daniel Prochaska, written by best-selling German author Ferdinand von Schirach. Glauben premiered as the sole German entry in the official competition of Cannes International Series Festival 2021 and received multiple awards, among them the Dior Grand Prize. Strnisa's score was nominated in the category Best Music at CANNESERIES.

He also composed the soundtrack for the internationally successful South Korean feature film Beol-sae (House of Hummingbird) which had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival 2018, went on to win the KNN Audience Award as well as the NETPAC Award and was premiered in Europe at the 2019 edition of Berlin International Film Festival where it was awarded the Grand Prize in the "Generation 14plus section" as Best Film. Bora Kim's debut premiered in North America at the Tribeca International Film Festival and received multiple awards there, among others as Best International Narrative Feature. Strnisa's score for House of Hummingbird was nominated for Best Score at the prestigious 56th Grand Bell Awards in South Korea in early 2020, won the Best Score Award at the 2019 Valencia International Film Festival - Cinema Jove and was released on Lakeshore Records.

Matija Strnisa's music has been recorded by the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg and the WDR Symphony Orchestra. In 2014, he co-composed for The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, produced by West German Radio (WDR), winning the award for the Best Children's German Radio Play. The feature film Meteorstrasse opened the "Perspective on German Cinema" section at Berlinale (2016) and received a nomination for the Best Debut prize. In the same year, Matija Strnisa received a nomination for the German Film Music Award in the category Upcoming Talent Award. In 2017, he composed the music for Paths, which had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for the Teddy Award as well as for the German Film Critics Association Award in the category Best Feature Debut.
- IMDb mini biography by: Matija Strnisa