Ben Hopkins

Ben Hopkins (* 1969 in Hong Kong , grew up in North London) is a British screenwriter , film director and novelist . He lives in Berlin and Istanbul and speaks English, German, Italian, Turkish and French.

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Hopkins studied German and Italian at Oxford and then went on to study film directing in London . After working on short films, he made his first feature film, Simon Magus , in 1998 , which was shown at the 1999 Berlinale . In 2000 the dystopian end-of-time film The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz followed . In recent years he has mainly worked as a documentary filmmaker for the BBC . In 2005/2006, the BBC and ARTE co-produced the documentary 37 Species to Use a Sheep , which was shown in the Forum des Junge Films as part of the 2006 International Film Festival in Berlin and was awarded the Caligari Film Prize. In 2008 he presented the film Pazar - The Market as a further directorial work. The film won the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in October 2008 and leading actor Tayanç Ayaydin won the Actor Award at this festival as well as at the Locarno Film Festival 2008.