Biography
Lara Juliette Sanders won a lifetime achievement award for her period-spanning feature documentary "Celebration of Flight". The documentary was inspired by her memoir "Up and Away" (aka "Einfach Davon Geflogen"), which was published by National Geographic/Malik and is currently available on Amazon (4-star rating). Lara was the founder and CEO of Lombardo Films - an international film production and distribution company. Her film distribution department sold at top international film markets, e.g. Cannes Festival, Berlinale and AFM. As a director and producer, Lara has received numerous honors and international awards such as ("Best Foreign Film", Gloria Film Festival, Utah 2007; "Best Feature Documentary", Thin Line Festival, Texas. 2007; "Best Documentary" and "Young Audience Award", Int. Film Festival, Dijon 2007; 2nd Prize at "Planète Couleurs", St. Etienne 2008, "documental del mas" 2009 in Spain, "German Gems" 2011, in San Francisco, "Monaco Charity Festival", 2011) and is being broadcasted on major European TV Stations, e.g. ZDF/ARTE, RAI, SVT, NRK, ERT, YLE, AB SAT, SRF. Lara Juliette Sanders is currently working as a writer, director, and producer in Los Angeles and Europe. Since 2012, Lara has risen to fame through the prime time TV Show "Goodbye Deutschland", VOX. She became a Celebrity in 2009 because of her life story and her successful film and has appeared on popular daytime TV shows all over Germany and Austria. (e.g. "Stern TV", RTL; "Punkt 12", RTL; "Das Mittagsmagazin", ZDF; "Hallo Deutschland", ZDF; "Frühstücksfernsehen", SAT 1; "Fröhlich lesen", MDR; "Schöner Leben", Servus TV/Redbull; "Mona Lisa", ZDF and more).
