Justin Peach

Justin Venner Peach (born March 2, 1982 in El Paso , Texas , USA ) is a German-American documentary filmmaker and cameraman .

Life

After high school and community service in Kaiserslautern, Germany, he made his first film and television experience, as an intern at ZDF , through internships at SWR and at "Maran Film" in Berlin and Stuttgart. In 2003 he began studying media design at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences . In 2005 he founded PENG - Society for the Promotion of Design, Art and Communication eV in Mainz. Also in 2005 a three-month stay in Ecuador followed, as a scholarship holder of the ASA program . In 2008 he completed his diploma as media designer at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences with the documentary "Kleine Wölfe". This was made possible by the young media promotion of Rhineland-Palatinate and a DAAD scholarship. Since 2008 he has been a member of the documentary film working group in the Frankfurt am Main region. Since the end of 2008 he has been studying for a master's degree in journalism. enrolled at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Justin Peach was awarded the German Young Talent Film Prize for his documentary film "Kleine Wölfe" at the "Up and Coming Festival" in Hanover on November 19, 2009, and the jury prize from the Rhineland-Palatinate State Center for Civic Education on November 6, 2009 . video / film days in Koblenz awarded. On August 11, 2010 "Kleine Wölfe" ran on ZDF . The documentation was then nominated for the 2011 Grimme Prize in the Information and Culture category.

"Street Line" is the sequel to the award-winning documentary "Little Wolves". Ten years after the first filming, Justin Peach was able to track down some of the children from back then. STREET LINE is a long-term portrait of the then 11 and now 23-year-old former street child SONU, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Peach accompanies SONU on his way to break the chains of his past in order to break the cycle of the road for his daughter.

Justin Peach's films are about feelings and a change of perspective. With his films he wants to encourage people to develop empathy for stories to which they would otherwise turn a blind eye and encourage them to discover new perspectives for action.

Filmography

2005: Calvin and Hobbes - On the hunt for Mr. X (short film, 5 minutes, comic adaptation) - Audience Award Full Screen 2005
2005: The Golden Cage (documentary, 34 minutes, illegal animal trade in Ecuador) - ASA grant
2006: Die Bunte Liga , co-director: David de Larrea (documentary, 28 minutes, hobby footballer in Mainz) - winner of the Short Cuts Festival in Mainz 2008
2006: The Beduinin (documentary commercial, 30 seconds, The life of a dropout in Petra, Jordan) - Bertelsmann Book Trailer Award
2006: Nachttanke (experimental short film, 6 minutes, 9 surveillance cameras tell a story) - winner of the Short Cuts Festival and the Audience Award Vollbild 2008
2007: Mao's 5,000 meter dream (documentary from Beijing to Lhasa, Tibet, research)
2009: Kleine Wölfe (diploma documentary, 48 minutes, portrait of a street boy in Kathmandu, Nepal) - German young talent film award 2009 and jury award from the Central Office for Civic Education RP
2010: The shared class , 80 min. Cinema documentary 4K Red Editing for Halbtotal Film and Andrzej Klamt .
2011: The village of forgotten children , 45min. 3sat and report editing for Katja Schupp and Halbtotal Film.
2012/13: My fight with Hitler , 45min. Docu-drama editing for Peter Adler and Gordian Maugg and half total film.
2013: Fight for survival , 35min. HistoryDoku-Editing with the authors Alex Berkel and Andrzej Klamt for Halbtotal Film.
2013: The luck of the Abkhazian shepherd , 43 min. ARTE WunderWelten report with Andrzej Klamt for half total film.
2014: Shepherd of his luck , 19 min. Festival version with Andrzej Klamt for half total film.

2013: Music for silent film , 12min. Short documentary for the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.

2015: Limit SOS , 4 min. Festival version with Andrzej Klamt for half total film.

2015: The Sound of Sardinia , 43 min. Version with Peter Kalvelage for Arte.

2016: The Germans and the Poles , 2x 43 min. Docu-drama with Andrzej Klamt for half total film.

2018: Freudenberg Castle , 80 min cinema documentary camera with Andrzej Klamt for half total film.

2018: Son of Cornwall , 80 min cinema documentary camera with Lawrence Richards for indie visuals.

2019: STREET LINE - KLEINE WÖLFE II , 90 min cinema documentary camera with Lisa Engelbach

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Daniela Mahr: Interview with Justin Peach and Lisa Engelbach. In: Reflecta.Network. Reflecta eV, April 1, 2019, accessed on May 8, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Peach, Justin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Peach, Justin Venner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American documentary filmmaker and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH	El Paso , Texas , USA

[1] Daniela Mahr: Interview with Justin Peach and Lisa Engelbach. In: Reflecta.Network. Reflecta eV, April 1, 2019, accessed on May 8, 2019 .