Jochen Alexander Freydank

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Jochen Alexander Freydank (born September 15, 1967 in East Berlin ) is a German director . In 2009 he received an Oscar for his film Toy Land .

Life

Freydank began in the early 1990s as a film editor and assistant director for various television and film productions. After he was rejected five times by the film schools in Berlin and Potsdam , he produced his first short films himself. In 1999 he directed the macabre comedy Happy End , 2001 Emergency, and 2002 the short film satire Dienst . The film had its world premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival .

After two years of preparatory work, Freydank realized Toy Land , which won over 30 international awards. In February 2009, Toy Land was awarded an Oscar .

Parallel to his work as a director, Freydank wrote scripts for the crime series Polizeiruf 110 and series such as Medicopter 117 - Every life counts and Klinikum Berlin Mitte - Life in readiness . From 2007 to mid-2009 Freydank was the producer for the children's series Endlich Saturday! of Bayerischer Rundfunk and the ARD series In all friendship . Freydank directed advertising and image films and staged theater plays, such as the comedy Johnny Chicago with Kurt Krömer at the Volksbühne in Berlin

In 2010 he shot his first crime scene for ARD with the home front

This was followed in 2011 by the tragic comedy And Away You Are for Sat.1, which was awarded the Bavarian TV Prize for best director .

In 2013 Freydank staged another crime scene with Almighty .

In 2013/2014 Freydank realized the movie Kafkas Der Bau based on the eponymous story by Franz Kafka, which he also produced and for which he wrote the screenplay. The film had its world premiere on October 4, 2014 at the Busan International Film Festival and its European premiere in competition at the Warsaw International Film Festival .

In 2014 he directed the melancholy comedy Big Fish, Small Fish for ZDF based on his own script and in 2015 three more crime films for ARD with “ Engelmacher ”, “Der wilde Sven” and “ Zorn - Wie die köten”.

In 2016 Freydank shot a Police Call 110 from Magdeburg and a Usedom crime thriller entitled "Trugspur".

In 2017 he directed two films from the new ARD series "The Barcelona Crime". In the same year he filmed The Joshua Profile based on a novel by Sebastian Fitzek .

Jochen Alexander Freydank is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

2001

  • Communication association: "The flap in bronze", for advertising hemp litter
  • Audience award "Shorts welcome" for a happy ending

2002

  • Audience award, spotlight, international TV and advertising film festival for hemp litter
  • Cindy Award in Gold by the Association of Audio Visual Communicators for hemp litter
  • Silver Bear, Festival of Nations, Austria for emergencies
  • Corto web award, Arcipelago Film Festival, Rome, Italy for emergency

2003

2004

  • Montecatini Film Festival, Italy, best film International Panorama for service

2007

2008

  • Short Shorts Film Festival Tokyo, Japan, audience award for Toy Land
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation short film award for Toy Land
  • Bermuda International Film Festival, Bermuda Short Film Award for Toy Land
  • Rhode Island International Film Festival, second place International Discovery Award for Toy Land
  • Giffoni Film Festival, Italy, APEC Gold Award for Toy Land
  • Alpinale Vorarlberg , Austria, audience award for Toy Land
  • Odense International Film Festival, Danmark, best children and youth film for Toy Land
  • Alemeria en Corto, Film Festival, Spain, jury award & audience award for Toy Land
  • Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, USA audience award for Toy Land
  • Palm Springs International ShortFest , USA, audience award for Toy Land
  • Sedicicorto - International Film Festival Forli, Italy, Best short film for Toy Land
  • Asheville Film Festival, USA, Best short film for Toy Land
  • Victoria Independent Film Festival, Australia, Best short under 20 minutes for Toy Land
  • Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Almería, audience award and jury award for Toy Land

2009

  • Oscar in the Best Short Film category for Toy Land
  • Washington Jewish Film Festival, USA, audience award for Toy Land
  • Kansas City Film Fest, USA, best narrative short for Toyland
  • Phoenix Film Festival, USA, world cinema best short for Toy Land
  • Pittsburgh Jewish Film Festival, USA, audience award for Toy Land
  • Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival, USA, audience award for Toy Land
  • Rehoboth Film Festival, USA, audience award for Toy Land
  • Villa Mare Film Festival, Italy, Audience Award for Toy Land
  • Reno Film Festival, USA, best foreign film for Toy Land
  • Portland International Film Festival, USA, audience award (second place) for Toy Land
  • Lenola Film Festival, Italy, best film + "best soundtrack" for Toy Land
  • Anchorage Film Festival, USA, audience award for Toy Land
  • New Jersey Film Festival, USA, honorable mention for Toy Land
  • Cleveland International Film Festival, USA, audience award for Toy Land
  • San Diego Jewish Film Festival, USA, audience award for Toy Land

2013

2014

2015

documentation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jochen Freydank - Biography ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Filmportal.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmportal.de
  2. Oscar Ceremony. The New York Times , February 23, 2009; accessed January 11, 2018 .
  3. Die Welt : “Think about the stretch limo for the Oscar!” Of February 18, 2009.
  4. Der Tagesspiegel : Short film from Berlin nominated for an Oscar on January 22, 2009.
  5. oscars.org: Nominees & Winners for the 81st Academy Awards , accessed on 30 August 2011th
  6. focus.de: Oscar winner Freydank at the Volksbühne , accessed on August 30, 2011.
  7. tagesspiegel.de: "The war in Afghanistan must not become an everyday occurrence" , accessed on August 30, 2011.
  8. Hollywood Reporter : Oscar Winner to Debut First Feature , accessed September 26, 2014.
  9. Die Welt : Zorn , accessed April 14, 2016.
  10. Nice silence on Rügen. Tagesspiegel , accessed on August 26, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Cinema star Clemens Schick shoots "The Barcelona-Krimi". ARD , accessed on June 13, 2017 .
  12. Three new films at the start. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , October 21, 2017, accessed on November 18, 2017 .
  13. In the clutches of the data octopus. Berliner Morgenpost , accessed on August 26, 2017 .