Christoph Heller
Christoph Heller (born February 19, 1981 in Darmstadt ) is a German filmmaker.
Life
Heller studied film production at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . Before that, the Darmstadt native had touch points with film and was production manager and coordinator for cinema projects. With the long commercial surveillance camera , Heller then shot an independent work in 2007, which received an honorable mention at the 57th Berlinale as part of the Teddy Award ceremony and the rating "valuable" from the Wiesbaden film evaluation office . 2005–2008 he produced the documentary Sollbruchstelle by Eva Stotz . After that, Heller began work on his first own feature film, My Father. My uncle. (2009), in which he documents the first encounter since early childhood between Sinan Al Kuri, who also grew up in Darmstadt, and his biological family from Iraq. For this film, Heller was nominated for the Babelsberg Media Awards and the Gold Panda Awards. After numerous international festival appearances, the film opened on April 3, 2010 in Austria, on April 22, 2010 in Switzerland and on May 13, 2010 in Germany in theaters and on December 29, 2012 on DVD.
Heller then produced the documentary Berg Fidel - A School for All by Hella Wenders . The film was awarded the golden Lüdia at the Lünen Kinofest and the main prize at the Five Lakes Film Festival. In 2013 the film was nominated for the German Film Award and shown at the Berlin International Film Festival .
Web links
- Christoph Heller at filmportal.de
- Christoph Heller in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Filmportal.de: Biography of Christoph Heller
- ↑ deutscher-fernsehpreis.de
- ↑ Maike Schultz in berliner-zeitung.de : Zerrissenheit light from May 12, 2010
- ↑ kabeleins.de: "this is how it looks"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heller, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th February 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |