Christopher Becker

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Christopher Becker (born May 1, 1980 in Bad Münstereifel ) is a German film director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Christopher Becker studied directing at the international film school in Cologne , where he graduated in 2005. He also held various positions in the film industry, initially as manager , then as production manager . During his studies, he made short films that were represented at national and international film festivals . These include women's parking lot and his graduation film Midsummer . From 2007 to 2011, alongside Johannes F. Sievert and Moritz Grenzebach, he was partner and managing director of the company "Pi Filmproduktion", which was included in the scholarship program of the "AV-Gründerzentrum NRW" initiated by the Filmstiftung NRW and the city ​​of Cologne in the founding year.

Together with Daniel Rakete Siegel, he wrote and directed the web series Highroller and Tank from 2008 to 2010 with Daniel Wiemer , Raphael Rubino , Anna Angelina Wolfers and Hans-Martin Stier in the leading roles. The viral spot “Schalenklau” for the company PayPal was also created from the collaboration , which was seen over two million times on the Internet and broadcast in Zeigler's wonderful world of football , the sports show and in the current sports studio .

He was a lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen . In 2011 he had a guest appearance in the movie An Island called Udo , and in 2012 in the movie Eating Fries .

The short films Brothers and Spielzeit , which he produced, premiered in January 2012 . Brothers premiered in the competition for the best short film as part of the Max Ophüls Prize in Saarbrücken and was nominated for the First Steps Award in August 2012 , Spielzeit was nominated for the best international short film at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City , Utah .

In 2015 he developed the comedy series Comedy Rocket with Daniele Rizzo , which he produced in three seasons until 2017 and was responsible as headwriter. He also directed some episodes. On Facebook could Comedy Rocket recorded more than 230 million video views. On YouTube alone , the clip "Sex in the Bathtub" reached over 18 million viewers (as of January 2020). The clip “This is how relationships break” was widely discussed in the media as a commentary on digitization and AI . Mac Life described the clip as "really funny and not that far-fetched". In 2017, Comedy Rocket was nominated for the Golden Camera Digital Award in the Comedy category

Filmography

Awards

His film Frauenparkplatz won the Made For Mobile Award 2007 . In 2010, his viral commercial for the Cologne International Film School was nominated for the Viral Video Award .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pi film production. Scholarship holders 2007. (No longer available online.) In: www.av-gruenderzentrum.de. AV-Gründerzentrum NRW GmbH, archived from the original on November 1, 2012 ; Retrieved September 8, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Temporary injunction: Bayern Munich stops PayPal's viral campaign. In: Advertise & Sell. Verlag Werben & Sell GmbH, Munich, February 11, 2011, accessed on September 8, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Videos from Comedy Rocket on facebook. In: Facebook . RTL interactive , accessed on January 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Sex in the bathtub. In: youtube . RTL interactive , December 21, 2016, accessed on January 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Martin Dirk Zimmer: Comedy Rocket: Crazy Apple iCar Auto-Navigation. In: Mac Life . falkemedia , February 12, 2016, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Interview with COMEDY ROCKET. In: goldenekamera.de. Funke Mediengruppe , January 31, 2017, accessed on January 5, 2020 (interview with actors on nomination).
  7. ↑ Viral Video Award 2010. interfilm Berlin, accessed on November 22, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Münstereifel