Marco Kreuzpaintner

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Marco Johann Kreuzpaintner (born March 11, 1977 in Rosenheim , Bavaria ) is a German film director , screenwriter and producer .

Life

Kreuzpaintner did his Abitur at Luitpold-Gymnasium Wasserburg am Inn and then studied art history in Salzburg . He learned the film trade self-taught while working in film, advertising and music video production. He became assistant to Peter Lilienthal and in 1998 to Edgar Reitz . In 1999 he took over the German dubbing assistant for the Stanley Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut .

In the same year his first short film Entering Reality attracted attention at film festivals. With Oliver Weiss he founded the production company Die Filmmanufaktur in 1999 . In 2000 the short film Der Atemkünstler , which was nominated for the First Steps talent award, was made, and in 2002 the TV pilot film Rec - Cassette Girls / Cassette Boys . His film Ganz und Gar was nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize .

In 2003, his first feature film, Entirely , was released, depicting the life of a young amputee. In 2004, the drama Sommersturm followed , which, according to Kreuzpaintner, is based on his own coming out as a young gay . In 2005, Kreuzpaintner received the New Faces Award as best young director for directing “Sommersturm” . In 2006 the screenplay for the film adaptation of the youth book Die Wolke followed , which was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize for the best children's and youth film.

In 2007, the American feature film Trade - Welcome to America with Kevin Kline was released internationally. It deals with human trafficking , forced prostitution and modern slavery . For this film, Kreuzpaintner received the Cinema for Peace Special Award from the Hessian Film Prize. Trade was produced by Rosilyn Heller and was originally intended to be directed by Roland Emmerich ; However, since he was preparing for his directing project 10.000 BC at the same time , he was looking for another director and met Marco Kreuzpaintner in 2003 in Munich. Trade was the first film ever to have its world premiere at the United Nations General Assembly at the invitation of Ban Ki Moon . Marco Kreuzpaintner also received the renowned film award “ Die Brücke - the Peace Prize of German Films ” for Trade .

On October 9, 2008, Krabat , a film adaptation of Otfried Preussler 's youth book of the same name, was released in German cinemas . The main actors in the film are Robert Stadlober , Daniel Brühl and David Kross . The film became one of the cinema highlights of 2008 with 1.8 million admissions and was among other things. a. awarded the Bavarian Film Prize.

In 2009, director Marco Kreuzpaintner founded the production company Summerstorm Entertainment in Berlin . The producers Gabriela Bacher and Fabian Wolfart are also involved . As the company's first project, Kreuzpaintner shot the comedy Coming In with Kostja Ullmann and Aylin Tezel in Berlin in 2013 . It was released in theaters on October 23, 2014.

Then came the 2014 comedy Stadtlandliebe with Tom Beck and Jessica Schwarz . Kreuzpaintner also shot several commercials for Haribo with Bully Herbig . In the summer of 2015 he shot his first Police Call 110 for BR under the title And forgive us our guilt .

Marco Kreuzpaintner is directing the series Beat , which has been on Amazon Prime Video since November 2018 .

Another planned project by Summerstorm Entertainment is the romantic comedy One Way Ticket (previous working title: Her Name Was Lola ), which is to be shot in English in London and Rio de Janeiro . Kreuzpaintner is also working on Rainer , a biographical film about Rainer Werner Fassbinder .

With the film producer Christopher Zwickler and supported by Roland Emmerich , he founded the internet start-up flimmer.de in 2012 to market cinema trailers.

Marco Kreuzpaintner is a member of the Federal Association of Directors , the Directors Guild of America , the German Film Academy and the European Film Academy .

Filmography

Marco Kreuzpaintner (left) with Norbert Eberlein at the 2019 Grimme Prize for Beat

literature

Web links

Commons : Marco Kreuzpaintner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kino-zeit.de , accessed on July 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Beat": Marco Kreuzpaintner stages new German Amazon series . In: HORIZONT . ( horizont.net [accessed February 14, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Kreuzpaintner, Marco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreuzpaintner, Marco Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, screenwriter and producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenheim , Bavaria