Henning Beckhoff

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Henning Beckhoff (* 1991 in Ennepetal ) is a German film director and screenwriter .

Life

Beckhoff turned to photography, then to the theater - first to acting, then to direction. Funded by a Germany Scholarship, he studied feature and documentary film directing at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (Bachelor and Master) from 2012 to 2018 . His films ran a. a. at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival , the Hof International Film Festival and the Berlinale .

His first feature film Five Things I Don't Understand premiered at the Hof International Film Festival in 2018. The film received the Bild-Kunst-Förderpreis for the best costume and stage design, an honorable mention at the award ceremony for the "Neues Deutsches Kino" award , the audience award in Poitiers and the award for the best production at the "Achtung Berlin" festival . The film will start in cinemas nationwide on November 7, 2019 and will be awarded by Filmgalerie 451.

Beckhoff's graduation film Off Season celebrated its premiere at the Berlinale 2019 in the category "Perspektive Deutsches Kino" and was awarded the Michael Ballhaus Prize by First Steps .

Henning Beckhoff lives and works as a freelance director , author and producer on feature and documentary films in Berlin. He is a scholarship holder of the script workshop in Munich and the Wim Wenders scholarship of the Film- und Medienstiftung in NRW. In 2020 he is a participant in the Berlinale Talents.

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anke Hoffmann: You are the enemy. March 17, 2009, accessed on May 12, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Germany Scholarship . (PDF) Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Hartmut Breyer: Beckhoff film makes Ennepetal a name in the cinema world. December 14, 2018, accessed on January 10, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Hartmut Breyer: Beckhoff film shot in Ennepetal at other festivals. December 28, 2018, accessed on January 10, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ Five things I don't understand. Hof International Film Festival, accessed on January 10, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Film Awards 2018. Hof International Film Festival, accessed on January 10, 2019 .
  7. ↑ New German Cinema Award: Honorable Mention for Five Things I Don't Understand. Hof International Film Festival, accessed on January 10, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Film details: FIRST STEPS. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
  9. ↑ “Easy Love Is No Easy Love” - Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2019 opens with easy love by Tamer Jandali. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
  10. ↑ 2019 | Wim Wenders Foundation. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Berlinale Talents: Imprint. Retrieved January 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Beckhoff, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Ennepetal