Gregor Schmidinger

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Gregor Schmidinger, 2009.

Gregor Schmidinger (born April 16, 1985 in Linz ) is an Austrian director and screenwriter. He is known for his feature film Nevrland (2019) and his short films The Boy Next Door (2008) and Homophobia (2012).

Life

Schmidinger studied "Digital Television" at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences . He wrote his thesis on transmedia storytelling and then studied screenwriting at the University of California in Los Angeles .

Schmidinger's films take a critical look at LGBT issues, such as his short films The Boy Next Door (2008) and Homophobia (2012). One inspiration for homophobia was Jamey Rodemeyer's suicide in 2011, which was attributed to Rodemeyer being subjected to massive cyberbullying for his homosexuality . The film had reached 4.6 million views on YouTube by February 2020.

His first feature film Nevrland premiered at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival in Saarbrücken . Schmidinger won the youth jury award. The main actor Simon Frühwirth won the award for the best young actors.

Schmidinger is co-founder of the Porn Film Festival Vienna (PFFV), which tries to bring together feminism , genderqueer theory, art and pornography . He is a member of the Association of Austrian Film Directors and the Association of Austrian Screenwriters.

Filmography

honors and awards

Web links

Commons : Gregor Schmidinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon Hauck: Nevrland film criticism . Cinema time. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  2. ↑ We talk to Gregor Schmidinger about "Nevrland". March 20, 2019, accessed March 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Short film: Homophobia eat the soul , Queer.de. May 18, 2012. Archived from the original on August 27, 2017. 
  4. ^ Nolte, Astrid: Project Homophobia: A Progressive Way to Make Movie , Vangardist . Archived from the original on October 15, 2017. Retrieved August 26, 2017. 
  5. ↑ Homophobia . Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  6. ↑ Austrian film is in the competition at the Berlinale . Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  7. ↑ Jenni Zylka: 40th Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize: Always just admiration . Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  8. ↑ Max Ophüls Prize 2019: Awards for Austrian films . Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  9. ↑ Susanne Heinrich wins the Max Ophüls Prize for "The Melancholische Mädchen" . SR.de. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  10. ↑ Lukas Matzinger: Vienna, how it wank . Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  11. ↑ Yasmin Vihaus: What is porn? Between art and copulation . Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  12. ^ Franz Lichtenegger: Vienna gets its first porn film festival . Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  13. ↑ Interview about the PFFV kosmo.at, February 19, 2018, accessed on February 15, 2020
  14. ^ Profiles Gregor Schmidinger . Retrieved January 6, 2020.
  15. ^ Profiles Gregor Schmidinger . Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  16. ↑ Thomas Pluch Script Awards 2019 . Retrieved March 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidinger, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian screenwriter and director
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz