The new VÖF presidents are well known to us!
A very warm welcome to Monika Buttinger and Hannes Salat who took over the presidency of the VÖF at the end of September 2024. The VÖF is very proud to have such experienced filmmakers on top of their association. They follow Christine Ludwig who has been the chairwoman for the last 4 years.
Monika Buttinger
Monika Buttinger, born in Wels in 1971, started to fulfill her dream of becoming a costume designer at 14 when she attended the HBLA for artistic design in Linz. After that, she got her degree as a fashion designer at the fashion school in Hetzendorf / Vienna in 1995 and immediately started working as a costume and fashion designer for different theatres and fashion labels. Since 2000 she has worked as a costume designer for feature films. For the costume design of VOLLGAS, she won the Femina Award at the Max Ophüls Festival for an outstanding artistic performance behind the camera followed by several nominations and awards in the last decade. So far her costume design portfolio includes more than 75 feature films showing an interesting range of mostly arthouse like THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET (Berlinale competition) or REVENGE (Oscar-nominated), period films such as A WHOLE LIFE and Marie Kreutzer’s latest feature CORSAGE which got into Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard 2022.
Monika Buttinger is a member of the Austrian, German, and European Film Academy as well as a member of THE ACADEMY of Motion Picture and Sciences.
Hannes Salat
Hannes Salat was born in Vienna 1969. He has been working as a production designer since 1999.
Throughout his career, he has collaborated with a multitude of esteemed directors, including David Schalko, Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala, Daniel Hoesl, Jasmila Zbanic, Johanna Moder, Florian Schwarz, Ulich Seidl, Wolfgang Murnberger, Barbara Eder, Elisabeth Scharang, Valentin Hitz, Michael Kreihsl, and more.
His exceptional talent in production design was lauded with the Austrian Film Prize for Best Production Design in 2016, 2017, and 2021, recognizing his remarkable contributions to films like “Good Night Momy” (directed by Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala), “Stille Reserven” (directed by Valentin Hitz), and “Quo Vadis, Aida?” (directed by Jasmila Zbanic).
Since 2014 he’s teaching production design at two Universities in Austria: Vienna Film Academy and the Institute for Stage and Film Design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
