Marten Persiel

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Marten Persiel (2021)

Marten Persiel (born 1974 in Berlin ) is an internationally active German film director and screenwriter .

Live and act

Marten Persiel was born in West Berlin and grew up in Hanover and Hamburg. In the skate scene of the 1980s and 1990s he made his first short films; This was followed by a degree in documentary film at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , a degree in mixed media art at the University of Portsmouth and finally a bachelor's degree in directing / screenplay at the University of Westminster in London. In 2001 he moved to Barcelona, ​​where he worked as an editor and commercial director for eight years . Some short films and documentaries were also made here, before continuing his work as a director in the Philippines.

Marten Persiel has lived in Berlin since 2009. The first feature-length film This Ain't California was made here . The film tells the story of a friendship in the GDR skateboarding scene . This film, described by Marten Persiel as a documentary story, with its partly fictional content, has raised a discussion about norms in documentary film, especially in Germany. The film received the rating “Particularly Valuable” from the German Film and Media Evaluation (FBW) and Persiel went on a world tour with the Goethe-Institut in 2013 to show the film in Europe, Australia, Mexico, Indonesia and the USA. This Ain't California had its international premiere at the Berlinale 2012 and was awarded best film in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino category. Further awards at international festivals followed.

In 2013, Persiel spends a fellowship at Villa Aurora , where he begins basic research for a film project about time and biodiversity. This project will keep the writer and director busy for the next 8 years. During these eight years, Persiel also made a name for himself as a director of commercial documentaries, again winning international awards. In 2014 he sat on the jury of the documentary film festival Diagonale in Graz.

In 2021, his feature film debut Everything will Change celebrated its world premiere at the Zurich Film Festival . The following year, the dystopian science fiction film was invited to compete at the Max Ophüls Prize 2022 film festival.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1997: The Concrete Souldier, Germany ( Short Film )
  • 1999: Tower (Screenplay), UK ( Short )
  • 2000: Kebabland, UK ( Short Film )
  • 2004: Buhay na Tubig, Philippines ( Short Film )
  • 2006: Three Foot Charlie, Philippines ( Short Film )
  • 2006: Siyempre Amigos, Philippines (60 mins)
  • 2007: Mimi, la Joie, Ivory Coast (60 mins)
  • 2008: 8 Steps, Germany ( Short Film )
  • 2009: Joy, Spain/Germany ( short film )
  • 2011: Burn the Movie, Spain ( Short Film )
  • 2011: We are surfers, Spain ( Short Film )
  • 2011: Welcome en Casa, Dominican Republic ( Short Film )
  • 2012: This Ain't California , Germany (92 minutes feature)
  • 2013: Sound of the Void, Switzerland ( Short Film )
  • 2014: The Devils Toy, Germany/Canada (short film)
  • 2016: Il Cubo, Portugal/Italy (commercial short film)
  • 2019: Search for the Wooo, Scotland (short film)
  • 2021: Everything wants change

awards

For " This Ain't California ":

web links

supporting documents

  1. "This Ain't California, 2012 - August 15, 2012. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung website. Retrieved November 11, 2013.
  2. "This Ain't California, 2012 - February 13, 2012. Time's website. Retrieved November 11, 2013.
  3. "This Ain't California, 2012 - Predicate particularly valuable . German Film and Media Ratings website. Retrieved October 28, 2013.