Bjoern Richie praise

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Bjoern Richie Lob (born August 26, 1974 in Cologne ) is a German film director , film producer and cameraman .

Life

Bjoern Richie Lob's passion for film and photography began at the age of nine when he was given his first video camera. After school he spent a lot of time traveling, always looking for good subjects and waves to surf.

Parallel to his travels, he built up his career and first worked as a setter, driver and lighting technician for student productions of his school friend Hendrik Hölzemann , who was studying at the Ludwigsburg Film Academy at the time . Here he met the director Benjamin Quabeck know and worked as an electrician and in many other functions in his short films and cinema - movies such. B. Do not regret anything and waste your youth with. Because of his affinity for surfing, he specialized in this field and shot and produced numerous surf videos for the German Surfing Association (DWV).

In addition, he made his own short films and documentary making-ofs for feature films such as B. from Hendrik Hölzemann's ventricular fibrillation . After numerous internships and assistant jobs in almost every department in the professional film business, in 2005 he received state film funding for his debut film Keep Surfing . The producer Tobias N. Siebert of the Oscar- nominated film The Story of the Weeping Camel became aware of the project and joined as a co-producer with funding from the German Film Funding Agency (FFA). After more than four years of production, the film Keep Surfing celebrated its world premiere at the Munich Film Festival in 2009 and won the audience award by a large majority . The international premiere took place at the Tribeca Film Festival 2010 in New York.

Filmography

As a screenwriter

As a director

  • 2009: Keep Surfing
  • 2003: Schwarzfahrt (short film)
  • 2003: Alone (short film)
  • 2001: Sun Surfer (short film)

As a producer

  • 2009: Keep Surfing

As a cameraman

  • 2009: Keep Surfing
  • 2003: Schwarzfahrt (short film)
  • 2003: Alone (short film)
  • 2001: Sun Surfer (short film)

As a lighting technician

Awards

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personal data
SURNAME Praise, Bjoern Richie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, cameraman and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne