Niki Drozdowski

Niki Drozdowski (born January 27, 1979 in Augsburg ) is a German film director and screenwriter.

Life

Niki Drozdowski is the son of the actor Georg Marin and the make-up artist Beatrix Drozdowski. His grandfather is the writer and actor Georg Drozdowski . With the support of this family home, Drozdowski discovered his interest in film at an early age and was already working in the field of 3D animation as a student. Both parents were also professionally involved in Drozdowski's films several times.

Drozdowski studied 3D animation, post-production, screenwriting and directing at the Cologne Academy of Media Arts . He achieved his first successes as a director at the Short Cuts Cologne festival at the Art Academy for Media Cologne with two social spots ( boxer or bullfight and jogger or ivory ) realized for “NOAH Menschen für Tiere eV” . In it he visualized the unfair fight of people against animals by projecting them onto sporting events and staging a boxer as a victim of a bullfight and a jogger as a victim of a driven hunt.

Drozdowski achieved his greatest international success to date in 2004 with the diploma film Wilfried Neuss, which was awarded at the NextFrame Festival Philadelphia 05 - a symphony in five movements that tells the story of a man whose musical dream is shattered by a tinnitus disease.

Together with the founder of Television & More , Martin Gülzow (formerly Freemantle TV and Endemol ), Drozdowski was involved in the development of various game show formats. In 2006 he founded his own production company CINEMA ERGO SUM , which he has been running with Daniel Buder since 2007 .

In 2009 he began shooting the zombie film Extinction - The GMO Chronicles , for which he worked as a producer, director and writer. The film premiered on October 28, 2011 at the Hof Film Festival.

Filmography

Short films (selection)

• 2003: Animal welfare spots Boxers and Joggers .
• 2004: Wilfried Neuss - a symphony in five movements

Documentary (selection)

• 2007: GRAND ERG 2007 marathon rally
• 2007: TALKS IN EUROPE

Feature film (selection)

• 2011: Extinction - The GMO Chronicles (as producer, director and writer)

Television (selection)

• 2017: neoManiacs (TV series, author)

Awards

• 2005: “Director's Choice Award” and “Screenwriting Award” at the NextFrame Festival Philadelphia 05 for Wilfried Neuss - a symphony in five movements

Web links

• Niki Drozdowski at filmportal.de
• Niki Drozdowski in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• cinema-ergo-sum.com - website of Niki Drozdowski's film production company
• Scenes like the “Lord of the Rings” report on the shooting of Extinction at rundschau-online.de, February 21, 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the animal protection spots at khm.de (accessed on March 22, 2009) 
2. ↑ Profile ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Wilfried Neuss - a symphony in five movements at khm.de (accessed on March 22, 2009) 
3. ↑ Eifelers mutated into horror creatures. (No longer available online.) Kölner Stadtanzeiger, March 18, 2009, archived from the original on March 22, 2009 ; Retrieved June 20, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ extinction ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.cinema-ergo-sum.com, accessed on November 3, 2017.