Levin Peter

Levin Peter

Levin Peter (* 1985 in Jena , Germany ) is a director , author and producer and lives in Vienna .

Life

Levin Peter grew up in Jena, where he graduated from high school in 2005. He shot his first documentary "Prestes Maia" in 2007 in cooperation with ZDF and ARTE about the largest squatting in Latin America in 2007 in São Paulo . From 2008 to 2015 Peter completed his directing studies at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy . His diploma film "Behind the Snowstorm" won the First Steps Award and was presented as a guest at the Berlinale Perspektive. He was part of the jury of the Visions du Réel film festival and received the Nipkow and Gerd Ruge scholarships. In 2016 Peter and his partner Elsa Kremser founded the production company "RAUMZEITFILM Produktion" in Vienna. Her first film as a directing duo, SPACE DOGS, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2019 and screened at over 40 film festivals worldwide. At the Viennale 2019 the film was awarded the " Vienna Film Prize " as the best Austrian film and also received the Erste Bank MehrWERT Film Prize. Levin Peter is working with Elsa Kremser on his first feature film, THE GREEN WELLENSITTICH, which received the Berlinale Kompagnon Screenplay Award.

Filmography

• 2008: Prestes Maia - together with Jonas Ginter, Albrecht Schuch (52´, documentary)
• 2009: Nachtwald (11´, experimental film)
• 2010: Sonor - together with Elsa Kremser (37´, documentary)
• 2012: A promise - together with Elsa Kremser (70´, documentary)
• 2015: Visitation (25 ', installation)
• 2016: Behind the Snowstorm (90´, documentary)
• 2016: For Whom I Might Die (20´, short feature film)
• 2019: SPACE DOGS - together with Elsa Kremser (91 ', documentary)

Awards

Award winners

• Vienna Film Award "Best Austrian Film" 2019
• Erste Bank MehrWERT Film Award Viennale 2019
• Special Jury Award FIDOCS Chile 2019
• Locarno Film Festival - Special Mention by the Junior Jury Cineasti del Presente - 2019
• Locarno Film Festival - Special Mention from the ISPEC Cultura Jury 2019
• Honorable Mention from the New Waves Non Fiction Jury - Sevilla Film Festival 2019
• Berlinale Kompagnon Screenplay Award 2017
• DOK.fest Munich Composition Award 2016
• FIRST STEPS Award 2015
• BosiFest Belgrade "Best Director" 2012

• MDR Young Talent Award 2010
• Visions du Rèel "Honorable Mention" 2010
• FEST Portugal "Best Academic Award" 2010

Nominated

• German Film Critics' Prize 2016
• German Human Rights Film Award 2008
• World Organization Against Torture Award 2009
• Kassel Dokfest Young Talent Award 2010
• Gold Panda Award Sechuan 2010
• Gold Panda Award Sechuan 2012

Web links

• Levin Peter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• RAUMZEITFILM production website www.raumzeitfilm.com
• SPACE DOGS film website www.spacedogsfilm.com
• Levin Peter on dafilms.de
• Behind the snowstorm film website www.hinterdemschneesturm.de
• Behind the snow storm in the catalog of the Berlin International Film Festival 2016
• Prestes Maia on jonasginter.de
• Levin Peter on firststeps.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UNICATO July: Prestes Maia - freedom in concrete
2. ↑ Jury Cinéma suisse 2017. Accessed on February 15, 2020 (English). 
3. ^ Elsa Kremser - Talents to Watch, November 2015
4. ^ Space Dogs. Retrieved February 15, 2020 . 
5. ^ "Space Dogs" wins Vienna Film Prize. Retrieved February 15, 2020 . 
6. ↑ The two partner sponsorship awards Berlinale Talents and Perspektive Deutsches Kino go to Nora Fingscheidt as well as Levin Peter and Elsa Kremser. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .