Boris Kreuter
Boris Kreuter (born December 19, 1970 in Braunschweig ) is a German director , producer and author who has been focusing mainly on documentary and cartoon films since 2005 . His particular merit is the film and public relations work for young and debut films in Germany. His long-term observations on young films were supported in terms of content by the Kuratorium Junge deutscher Film , Das kleine Fernsehspiel and Debut im third.
biography
Boris Kreuter made his first films at the age of 10 on Super 8 . Since 1986 he has been shooting on 16 mm film material with a Bolex camera . After graduating from high school in 1990, he completed a traineeship in the editorial and camera departments. From 1992 to 1995 he studied modern German literature , children's and youth literature as well as media sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and worked for the Green University Group in the student parliament (StuPa) as a member of parliament. He was the founder and three years editor-in-chief of UTV (Independent University Television), the first regular television broadcast by a university in Germany.
In 1995 Kreuter founded the production company Kreuterfilm, with which he produced over forty short reports, music videos and short films by 1999. Boris Kreuter has been working as a children's film producer since 1999. The focus of his work was on cartoons and animated films . With his collaboration as a producer and editor, children’s films are made for Ki.Ka and the program Our Sandman . Boris Kreuter was a producer and head of the film production department at Baumhaus Medien AG (Baumhaus Verlag) from 2000–2001 . Here he worked on Lauras Stern , Lena and Paul, Tobi - Das kleine Grüne Ungeheuer (nomination for the Golden Spatz in Gera) and on the German-language DVD distribution of Charlie Brown and his friends ( The Peanuts ).
Since 2005 he has been a producer and director of documentaries. The focus of his work lies in the area of young and debut films. Boris Kreuter made the first short film and the first long documentary about young films in Germany from 2005 to 2008. In addition, he published a book about newcomer films.
His documentary film project Spiel, Zirkuskind, spiel about the Auschwitz and Holocaust survivor Sioma Zubicky received funding from the DEFA Foundation in 2007 . In the same year, Germany's first comic crime thriller was released as a short film under the title To Watch Me If You Can . In addition, since 2007 he has been running an information portal on the Internet about newcomer films entitled Dein-Nachwuchsfilm. In 2012 he founded the first city parliament television with the participation of young people in Germany. In 2013 he published the children's film William and the weever about the weever .
Film rental
Boris Kreuter is the initiator of a film distribution company for professional young films. He founded Cineblob in 2008 as an internet distributor for young films . From 2010 he is managing director of the film distribution company Trickfilmkinder . The company's main focus is the production and distribution of children's feature films and children's documentaries.
Filmography (selection)
As a director and writer
- 1996: the fifties
- 1996: The last thing to die is hope
- 1997: Max Palü writes children's crime stories
- 1997: The flying car
- 1998: Karacho on Tour: Scream Factory
As a director and executive producer
- 1997: No home
As a director, writer and producer
- 2007: To Watch Me If You Can
- 2005 to 2008: Where is the film going, please? - Newcomer films in Germany (also supporting actors)
- 2008: Your Young Talent - Click here for film and television
- 2013: The weever film
- 2013: William and the weever
For Baumhaus Medien AG
- 2000: Tobi - the little monster
- 2001: Laura's star
- 2001: Lena and Paul
Audio book
1997: Eva Demski : The sea listens with a thousand ears. (Audio book director)
literature
- Boris Kreuter: Where is the film going, please? Newcomer Films in Germany. A collection of interviews (2007) and a non-fiction book for "Edition Quinto" (2008).
Web links
- Newcomer films in Germany on dein-nachwuchsfilm.de
- Official site about the filmmaker and producer Boris Kreuter on boriskreuter.de
- Everything about the first VoD film rental for young films on cineblob.com
- Site from the film production company Kreuterfilm on kreuterfilm.de
- Page of the film distribution for children's films on trickfilmkinder.de
- Article about the establishment of the city parliament television on frankfurterrundschau.de
- Article about the start of shooting the weever film on frankfurterrundschau.de
- Catalog entry for a film about young talent on reelport.de
- Article about the feature film To Watch Me If You Can on spielfilm.boriskreuter.de
- Newspaper article about a music video by Boris Kreuter on musikvideo.boriskreuter.de
- Filmstablist for the children's feature film William and the Petermännchen on williamunddaspetermännchen.de
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kreuter, Boris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director, producer and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |