Florian Tscharf

Florian Tscharf (born August 2, 1987 in Schwäbisch Hall ) is a German film director and screenwriter .

Life

Florian Tscharf studied media design at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University in Ravensburg from 2008 to 2011 . He then worked for various advertising agencies in Munich and Hamburg .

Since 2013 he has been studying directing at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy . This is where the work Fukushima Water was created in 2015 , a campaign to market radioactive water from Fukushima-Daichii. In the same year he made the short film Mayday Relay , which addresses the European refugee crisis and the decisions that go with it. The film premiered at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival in 2016 , was nominated for the German Short Film Award and awarded the title Particularly Valuable by the German Film and Media Evaluation . Mayday Relay was awarded the Arte short film prize at the Filmschool Fest Munich .

From 2016 to 2017 Tscharf studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem .

On March 22, 2017 he read the thesis paper Asylum of the Alternative for Germany party in the North African desert as part of an art event . In an interview with Vice he justified the idea as follows: "My thought was: You really have to send these approaches into the desert."

Filmography

Screenwriter and director

• 2016: Mayday Relay (short film)

Other work

• 2015: Fukushima Water (campaign)
• 2017: Theses Paper Asylum (reading)

Awards

• 2016: Nomination for the German Short Film Award for Mayday Relay
• 2016: Winner of the Arte short film award at the Film School Fest Munich for Mayday Relay
• 2016: Roger Deakins Award at the Plymouth Film Festival for Mayday Relay
• 2016: Particularly valuable rating from the German film and media rating for Mayday Relay

Web links

• Official website
• Florian Tscharf in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Florian Tscharf on filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marcus Thompson: Fukushima Water: the fictitious energy drink goes on sale . In: The Guardian . March 10, 2015, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed November 7, 2017]).
2. ↑ short circuit | Cinema | ARTE. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 7, 2017 (French).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ MAYDAY RELAY | Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 11, 2017 ; Retrieved April 10, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Government | News | Minister of State for Culture Grütters announced the nominations for the German Short Film Award 2016. Accessed on April 10, 2017 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Mayday Relay. Retrieved April 10, 2017 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} ARTE short film award for Mayday Relay by Florian Tscharf. Retrieved April 10, 2017 . 
7. ↑ We spoke to the guy who read an AfD thesis paper in the desert. Retrieved April 10, 2017 . 
8. ↑ 2016 WINNERS - Plymouth Film Festival . In: Plymouth Film Festival . ( plymouthfilmfestival.co.uk [accessed April 10, 2017]). 2016 WINNERS - Plymouth Film Festival ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.