Jan Mojto

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Jan Mojto (born May 13, 1948 in Nitra , Czechoslovakia , now Slovakia ) is a film producer and rights dealer . His group of companies is based in Oberhaching near Munich .

life and career

Jan Mojto works as an international film producer and rights dealer. The core of his group of companies is Beta Film , which emerged from KirchMedia , which has a catalog of over 15,000 hours of programming and 4,000 titles and continues to act as a producer / co-producer of national and international film and television productions. This makes it one of the largest European distributors for television, home video and new media. The portfolio of Beta Cinema and the Kineos that have since been absorbed into it includes numerous Academy Award-nominated and award-winning films. The Unitel, also from KirchMedia , is in the classic areathe leading international producer of audiovisual music recordings with a catalog of around 1,100 productions. The TV channel Classica is represented on several dozen payment platforms worldwide. The group of companies also has numerous investments in national and international production companies as well as special interest channels, including the Sky channels Spiegel Geschichte and Spiegel TV Wissen .

Until the end of 2001 Mojto was responsible for the program area at KirchMedia. Born in Slovakia, he was a member of the supervisory boards of Mediaset / Italy, Telepiù / Italy, Gestevisión Telecinco / Spain, ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG and KirchPayTV and from 1994 to 2002 President of the ACT - Association of Commercial Television in Europe. Before joining Kirch, he worked as a journalist specializing in film, theater and literature. Mojto, who speaks eight languages, studied literature and history in Bratislava and Munich and also at the Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires in Fontainebleau ( MBA ).

Mojto received the Charles Medal for European Media (2003), the Bavarian Television Prize (for “Napoleon”, 2003), the Austrian Romy Television Prize (for “Crown Prince Rudolf”, 2006), the Bavarian Order of Merit (2007), the German Film Prize and the Bavarian Film Prize (both for “John Rabe”, 2009), the Officier de l'Ordre National des Arts et des Lettres and the European Trebbia Prize for Art and Culture (both 2011). The Unitel productions “Waldbühne concert in Berlin”, “Le nozze di Figaro” (Salzburg) and “Ring des Nibelungen” (Valencia) were awarded the renowned Echo Klassik in 2007, 2008 and 2010. In 2012 he received the insignia of a Chevalier dans l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur and the gold medal of the city of Cannes, and currently in 2013 the MipTV Medaille d'Honneur. Mojto teaches as a lecturer at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg and is involved in the University Council of the HFF Munich.

As a producer and co-producer, Mojto is responsible for several hundred hours of programming and has worked with actors such as Ben Kingsley , Richard Harris , Gary Oldman , John Malkovich , Isabella Rossellini and Gérard Depardieu as well as with directors such as Ermanno Olmi , Roger Young and Robert Dornhelm , Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck , Oliver Hirschbiegel and Agnieszka Holland . One of the biggest projects was the 21-part television adaptation of the Bible, which won numerous Emmy awards and nominations and achieved record ratings at home and abroad. Recently Mojto has co-produced or participated in some of the most acclaimed German and international cinema and TV productions, including "John Rabe" (four German Film Awards, Bavarian Film Award 2009) by Oscar winner Florian Gallenberger , Stefan Ruzowitzky's "Die Fälscher" ( Oscar Best Foreign Language Film 2008), Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's “ The Lives of Others ” (Oscar Best Foreign Language Film 2007) and Oliver Hirschbiegel's “Der Untergang” (Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film 2003). In the television sector, these include the four-part series "Napoleon", the most successful German mini-series with 13 million viewers, "Dresden", the film adaptation of "War and Peace", the event series " Borgia " about the papal clan of the Renaissance (three seasons) , the teamWorx productions “Our Mothers, Our Fathers”, “Rommel” and “Der Turm”, as well as the film adaptation of the novel “The Medicus” by Noah Gordon as an English-language cinema film and two-part television with Beta Cinema and Ufa Cinema. Beta Film currently distributes the HBO production "Burning Bush" by Agenieszka Holland and the Italian TV series "Gomorrah" based on the book by Roberto Saviano.

In the area of ​​classical music, Mojto was responsible for the award-winning Salzburg Festival cycle “Mozart22”, the audiovisual recording of “Beethoven9” with the Vienna Philharmonic and Christian Thielemann and “The Ring of the Nibelung” from Valencia with Zubin Mehta in the production of La Fura dels Bausa . Current Unitel projects include "Tutto Verdi", the worldwide unique audiovisual recording of all Verdi operas on the occasion of the master's 200th birthday, as well as the current productions of the Salzburg Festival. Unitel is the exclusive partner for audiovisual productions a. a. the Vienna Philharmonic and Christian Thielemann .

The majority shareholders of Beta Film have been the two daughters Mojtos since December 2015, each through an intermediate company.

Filmography

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.betafilm.com/en/profile.html
  2. ^ Isabell Hülsen , Martin U. Müller , Markus Brauck: Ulrich Wilhelm: The family closeness of the ARD chairman to "Babylon Berlin" . In: Spiegel Online . January 26, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 20, 2018]).
  3. ↑ karlsmedaille.eu
  4. ^ Courier: ROMY Academy: Platinum for producer and media manager Jan Mojto . Article dated April 3, 2019, accessed April 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Mojto, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak film producer and rights dealer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Nitra , ČSSR