Uta Briesewitz

Uta Briesewitz
Born	September 1, 1967 Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Age	57 (current)
Gender	Female
Pronouns	She/her
Occupation	Producer
Works on	The Wheel of Time TV series

Uta Briesewitz is an executive producer and director for Prime Video's television series The Wheel of Time.

She directed the first two episodes of season 1: Leavetaking and Shadow's Waiting.

General overview

Briesewitz is known for directing episodes for Westworld (2018), Stranger Things (2019), Altered Carbon (2018), and Black Sails (2017).

Quotes

From an interview in December 2020 with Short Take podcast:

Question

What is the favorite job you’ve done? (And it doesn’t have to to be a directing job, but it obviously, it can be.)

Briesewitz

Wow! There are many because I deeply enjoy what I do, be it as a cinematographer or as a director. So, there are many, many, many. But as a director, and thinking more recently…for me it would be The Wheel of Time…the fantasy series. I shot the pilot for [season] one and [the] second episode…for Rafe Judkins…the show creator for Amazon in Prague last year now…and I shot a little bit this year. Because it was just — as an episodic director, you always come on to shows that are already established. So, you are a guest: you come and go. You get a certain amount of time to connect with the crew and the actors, and then when you really kind of find your groove, you already have to leave again, and doing The Wheel of Time was a really long commitment. I think I was in Prague for roughly eight months. So, building something from the ground up, every detail, and creating this world with so many amazing, talented artists together, and see it kind of rise up in front of us from nothing, you know, whatever we did, it was just incredibly exciting and fun and fulfilling. So, I think that would be…my favorite job so far.

Question

What is the last book you read?

Briesewitz

That would be, embarrassingly enough, would be The Eye of the World, the first book of The Wheel of Time series in preparation for my job.

Gallery

London premiere, November 15, 2021

London premiere, November 15, 2021

Filming episode 1 Leavetaking

Filming episode 2 Shadow's Waiting with Abdul Salis

Navigation

Crew
Rafe Judkins Showrunner Lorne Balfe Composer Sarah Nakamura Consultant Harriet McDougal Consulting producer Brandon Sanderson Consulting producer Season 1 cast and crew • Season 2 cast and crew • Season 3 cast and crew • Writers • Directors • Musicians • browse all crew

External links

• Uta Briesewitz at the Internet Movie Database
• Uta Briesewitz on Wikipedia