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Maximilian "Max" Zähle (born September 1, 1977 in Hanover ) is a German film director .
Life
Max Zähle grew up in Celle as the son of qualified engineer Hans Henning Zähle and primary school teacher Siegrid Zähle. Max has two siblings, Katharina and Sebastian Zähle. After graduating from the Ernestinum Celle in 1997 , he moved to Hamburg in 1998 to do an internship at a film production company.
From 1999 to 2003 he was a freelance video operator , manager and assistant director on various film sets , intervening even in a post-production in the average active and began short films to stage. At the same time he studied at the Hanseatic Academy for Marketing and Media (HAMM) "Communication of audio and visual media" with a degree in communications management in 2002. He then passed an exam to become a film and video editor at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce.
From 2004 he was a freelance editor and director for various advertising film and music video productions. From 2008 to 2010 he completed a postgraduate course to become a film director with a master’s degree at the Hamburg Media School . In 2010 he stayed in Calcutta for several months to shoot the film Raju . With this he achieved his greatest successes to date: in 2011 the student Oscar in bronze and in 2012 the Oscar nomination in the category Best Non-Animated Short Film (Short Film - Live Action).
In October 2012, Zähle was a member of the jury for the Montblanc Screenplay Award at the Hamburg Film Festival . Since autumn 2012 he has shot several episodes of the television series Großstadtrevier .
Count is married to the director Johanna Pfaff , the daughter of the actor and director Dieter Pfaff . He lives in Hamburg-Altona .
Filmography
- 2001: Haste ma ...? (Short film)
- 2002: Team Sport - No.1 (music video)
- 2003: Team sports - photo album (music video)
- 2006: Samba - Kiss Me Forever (Music Video)
- 2006: Alex (short film)
- 2009: The Subtenant (short film)
- 2009: Wattwanderer (short film)
- 2011: Raju (short film)
- 2016: scraps!
- 2018: North at Northwest - Sandy
- 2018: Wolfsland - The stone guest
- 2018: are you happy?
Nominations and Awards (selection)
- 2010: Small Film Award in Gold, Best Director, XXS Dortmund Short Film Festival , for Wattwanderer
- 2010: Best short film, 21st Lünen Cinema Festival, for mudflat hikers
- 2010: FILMZ short film award, for mudflat hikers
- 2011: European Short Film Competition, Premio del público , Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares (Spain), for Raju
- 2011: Best Foreign Film, LA Shortsfest / USA, for Raju
- 2011: Best Production, Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award, for Raju
- 2011: Special Prize 22nd International Film Festival Emden-Norderney, for Raju
- 2011: Best feature film, Grand Prix in Almaty / Kazakhstan, for Raju
- 2011: Audience Award, 20th Aspen Shortfest Los Angeles / USA, for Raju
- 2011: Nomination First Steps , for Raju
- 2011: Bronze in the foreign film category at the Student Academy Awards (student Oscar), for Raju
- 2012: Oscar nomination in the Short Film (Live Action) category (Best Non-Animated Short Film) for Raju
- 2016: Audience Award 37th Film Festival Max Ophüls Award for Scraps!
Web links
- Max Zähle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Max Zähle at filmportal.de
- Max Count at Crew United
- Max Zähle website
- The Oscar contender , taz, April 29, 2011
- An Oscar for a film romantic , Die Zeit , June 10, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Ernestinum: Erness students after graduation - many possibilities ( Memento from June 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ First Steps Nominations 2011
- ↑ Press release of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Nominees for the 84th Academy Awards , January 24, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Count, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Count, Maximilian (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |