An award-winning short film director and achieved beauty and luxury creative/art director, Katja Haecker has chosen not to choose between her advertising background and her passions for racing cars and filming.

Following the accolade her 'Laps of Honor' documentary received, she is working on turning this format into a series about car collectors while prepping for 'Chicane', a short fiction film she has written and that is set to be shot in 2023. Her most recent work got her back to advertising and directing when she advised US-based Benard Creative Agency on three commercials/MMFs for Jamie Turner Jewelry.

The recipient of Best Documentary Short at the Grand Motoring Festival, Katja Haecker is getting more and more traction for her unique combination of story-telling acumen and exacting eye for beauty.

Katja Haecker is a creative nomad - a definition that doesn’t only apply to where she works, but also to the hybrid nature of her profile.

A New York-based, well-traveled and German-born creative, she enjoys journeying from her 360º career in creative direction for luxury brands to scriptwriting and film direction.

After over 20 years crafting campaigns for the beauty, jewellery, fashion, fragrance, and automobile markets all over the world, she finally decided in 2015 to fulfill her love of storytelling by filming her ideas and scripts. She also enrolled in cinematography and screenwriting courses at the London Film Academy.

From commercials to documentaries and fiction, Haecker’s filmography now includes several films for jewellery clients as well as ‘Endless Me,’ a one-of-a-kind ‘beauty meets David Lynch’ fashion short, and ‘Laps of Honor,’ featuring German car-racer and collector Herbert Engel. An achievement for Haecker’s unconditional passion for cars, ‘Laps of Honor’ has received warm accolades from the male-dominated motoring industry with a nomination for best documentary short at the International Motor Film Awards in London in 2022, and the award for best documentary short at the Grand Motoring Festival 2022 in South Carolina (Hilton Head Island).

Driven, experienced and focused, she has a distinctive aesthetic and artistically-trained eye which always brings out beauty and emotion in all her creative and film direction projects.

Katja is available worldwide.