EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed Swiss-Italian author and director Petra Volpe for illustration in all areas.
Volpe is well-known for writing 2015 family-drama Heidi, whose $38M field workplace makes it some of the profitable Swiss movies ever.
She most not too long ago made her English-language debut with Frank & Louis, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir and Rob Morgan, which she co-wrote and directed. The movie premiered on the 2026 Sundance Movie Pageant the place it was properly obtained by critics.
A 12 months prior, her function Late Shift premiered within the Particular Gala part of the 2025 Berlin Worldwide Movie Pageant, went on to carry out strongly throughout German-speaking territories, and was chosen as Switzerland’s official submission for the 98th Academy Awards the place it was shortlisted within the Worldwide Characteristic class.
Volpe first gained worldwide consideration along with her debut function Dreamland, which earned 4 Swiss Movie Award nominations, and broke by with The Divine Order, which premiered on the 2017 Tribeca Pageant. The movie went on to win the Nora Ephron Prize, the Viewers Award, and Finest Actress, and have become a Swiss box-office success earlier than receiving seven Swiss Movie Award nominations.
On the TV facet, she created the miniseries Labyrinth of Peace. She was not too long ago awarded with a Zurich Movie Pageant Golden Eye award.
Volpe continues to be represented by Vary Media Companions and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.
