Béla Baptiste

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Béla Baptiste , also Bela Baptiste , (born March 17, 1988 in Berlin ) is a German - French director , filmmaker and actor .

Life

Education and private matters

Baptiste comes from a family of artists. His mother is a classical singer; his father director and photographer . Baptiste grew up in Paris from 1989 . From 2004 he played theater . He played leading roles in several school theater projects . In 2006/2007 he took acting lessons at Le Vélo Théâtre in Paris with François Ha Van. From 2009 Vienna was his permanent residence. Baptiste has been married since 2018 and lives with his wife now in the New York district of Manhattan .

Acting as an actor

In the fairy tale film The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs (2009) he played the role of Hans, the child of fortune, who ultimately became the son of a king. In 2011 he had an episode role as a young police officer Kirchner in the Austrian crime series SOKO Donau in the episode The Exchange . In May 2013 he was seen in an episode role in the Austrian crime series CopStories . In the German-Austrian television film Lilly Schönauer - Love with a Family Connection, which was first broadcast on ARD in September 2013 , Baptiste, at the side of Marion Mitterhammer , was in the role of Max Gruber, the son of the interior designer Johanna, who is the focus of the film Gruber, see. He played a Viennese student who returned to the Salzkammergut during the semester break, and finally confided to his mother that he was gay .

Baptiste also starred in a few short films and in college films . In the 2013 movie The Blue Hours (2015; Director: Marc Jago), with Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht as the main actor, Baptiste had a supporting role as a hustler. In the Martin Scorsese film Silence , which premiered in Vatican City in November 2016 and was released in German cinemas in March 2017, Baptiste played the role of Dieter Albrecht, a character based on the explorer and doctor Engelbert Kaempfer , who at the end of the film takes over the narrative voice and can also be seen in a short appearance.

Working as a filmmaker

From 2010 Baptiste studied film directing at the Vienna Film Academy ; there were Peter Patzak , Michael Haneke and Murnberger his teachers. In 2014 he obtained his bachelor's degree there. He completed the subsequent master’s degree in 2018.

Baptiste is now mainly active as a filmmaker. He initially directed several short films, including the short film Spring Awakening (2012) with Merab Ninidze . In the same year Baptiste directed two other short films: Trefall (with Merlin Leonhardt and Bruno Thost as grandfather) and Im Vorübergangs (with Aaron Friesz , Nikolai Gemel and Tatjana Alexander as mother). In 2013 he realized the short film Der Umschlag with Lilian Klebow and Cornelia Köndgen as a production of the Vienna Film Academy .

In the short film I Watch Her Sleep (2017), which was screened at the 11th River Film Festival in Padua , Italy , in 2017 , Baptiste worked again with Merab Ninidze as the leading actor, who accused a young woman of a serious crime. Baptiste's 360 ° short film Fluchtpunkt (2018), which was shown at several festivals, won a total of three prizes in 2019: at the Landshut Short Film Festival , the Sehsuchten Student Film Festival and the Satis Expo Festival in Paris . His short film Percht (2018), which takes up the alpine tradition of the " Perchten ", had its North American premiere in June 2019 at the Palm Springs ShortFest .

Filmography (selection)

As a performer

As a filmmaker

  • 2012: Spring Awakening (short film; director)
  • 2012: Trefall (short film; director)
  • 2012: In passing (short film; director)
  • 2013: The Envelope (short film; director)
  • 2017: I Watch Her Sleep (short film; director / screenplay)
  • 2018: Vanishing Point (short film; director / script)
  • 2019: Percht (short film; director / screenplay)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Béla Baptiste . Sedcard at Schauspielervideos.de; Retrieved September 26, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c d Béla Baptiste ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Short biography; International Film Festival of the Vienna Film Academy (2013); Retrieved September 26, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 2013.filmfestivalwien.com
  3. ↑ a b c Bela Baptiste . Profile and vita at CAST FORWARD. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  4. ↑ The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Cast, plot and photo by Béla Baptiste. Official website of the ZDF ; Retrieved September 26, 2013.
  5. ↑ SOKO Vienna. The exchange . Cast, plot, and photo. Official website of the ZDF ; Retrieved September 26, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Are you stupid" - showdown at the "CopStories" ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Cast, plot, and photos of the scene. Official website of ORF.at ; Retrieved September 26, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / programm.orf.at
  7. ↑ Lilly Schönauer - Love with family connection ( Memento from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Cast, plot, and photo. Official website DasErste , accessed on September 26, 2013.
  8. ↑ Final theses 2014 ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Bachelor theses 2014. Official website of the Vienna Film Academy. Retrieved January 3, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmakademie.wien
  9. ↑ Spring awakening . Full length movie at Vimeo.com . Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  10. ↑ I Watch Her Sleep . Production details on FestivalWhizz.com. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  11. ↑ I Watch Her Sleep . Trailer at Vimeo.com . Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  12. ↑ ESCAPE POINT . Production details. Official website of the Vienna Film Academy . Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  13. ↑ Vanishing Point . Production details. Official website of the Landshut Short Film Festival . Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  14. ↑ Jury & Awards: Prize Winners . Official website of the Landshut Short Film Festival . Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  15. ↑ L'édition 2019 du 360 Film Festival . Official website. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  16. ↑ Percht . Production details. Official website of the Vienna Film Academy . Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  17. ↑ Percht . Official website of the Palm Springs ShortFest . Retrieved August 19, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Baptiste, Béla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baptiste, Bela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin