Christian Schäfer (film director)

Christian Schäfer (* 1990 in Dillenburg ) is a German director and film producer .

Life

He grew up in Herborn in Central Hesse. After graduating from high school in 2009, Schäfer worked in film and theater productions as a production manager and assistant director. From 2013 to 2017 he studied film directing in Cologne. In 2015, Schäfer shot the DFB's first officially supported film on homophobia in football on behalf of the DFB Kulturstiftung and in cooperation with the Cologne youth center Anyway. The medium-length feature film "Dieter Not Unhappy" with Christoph M. Ohrt , Leslie Malton and François Goeske in the lead roles, funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW , is his graduation film and premiered at the 2018 Max Ophüls Prize film festival.

Awards and nominations

• 2018 Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis - medium-length film - nominated
• 2018 Palm Springs Int. Short Fest California - Best Of Festival, Best International Short - nominated
• 2018 California Independent Film Festival - Best Student Short Winner Slate Award
• 2018 Kitzbühel Film Festival - Best International Short - nominated
• 2018 Volker Rodde Prize - Winner

Filmography

• 2013 Julian Junge Liebe Anders (web series / season 3)
• 2014 two faces
• 2016 Hiebfest (short film)
• 2018 Dieter Not Unhappy (medium length film)

Web links

• Christian Schäfer at the Funke & Stertz Medien Agenten agency
• Christian Schäfer in the Internet Movie Database
• Christian Schäfer at Crew United

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.firststeps.de/filmkatalog/filmemacher/show-person.html?tx_e27firststepswfqbe_pi1%5BID%5D=0b8ee717-ef6d-7016-80dd-113b81b8af99
2. ↑ https://ffmop.de/programm/film_detail/movie-5a37e10cb25a0
3. ↑ https://www.psfilmfest.org/2018-shortfest-archive/2018-shortfest-film-archive/dieter-not-unhappy