Norbert Keil

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Norbert Keil (born February 17, 1972 in Ulm ) is a German film director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Norbert Keil graduated from the Bertha-von-Suttner-Gymnasium in Neu-Ulm and then went to Munich . According to his own statement, he never attended a film school, but followed Quentin Tarantino's advice: “If you want to make films, watch films. If you want to write books, read books. ”(“ If you want to make films, watch films. If you want to write books, read books. ”).

His first, publicly accessible film was made in 1999. The 14-minute horror short film Four Parts at Dawn with Minh-Khai Phan-Thi , Florian Wagner and Michou Pascale Anderson was produced by Aquarius Filmproduktion; The producer was Roland Lippoldmüller and the film music was written by Philipp F. Kölmel . The film was shown at Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival , was released as an extra on the German film distribution DVD of Scream 3 and was shown in the opening act of the German cinemas for the screening of Scream 3 . In 2004, Keil edited the short documentary video film Welcome to Werewolfland for Jörg Bauer, who mainly worked as a producer, and a year later the short video documentary Chatting with Eli Roth .

In 2001 he founded the production company Trailerhaus GmbH in Munich , which now has a branch in Berlin and which he runs with Wolf Hohl. The focus of the company is the development and production of cinema trailers and television commercials.

In October 2005 appeared with the title … by because of! his first movie, in which Florian Wagner as well as Luise Bähr , Friederike Kempter , Thomas Gumpert and Wolfgang S. Zechmayer could be seen again. Wagner is also a singer on the soundtrack to ... because of! represent; the soundtrack comes from Thomas Hofmann. Steffen Nowak , Oliver Scheffel and Sepp Schauer in a supporting role played in the 26-minute film .

On August 8, 2006, Norbert Keil married the screenwriter Nadine Sabrina Keil (* 1983), with whom he wrote the screenplay for the joint short film production Bathtub zum Glück (2009) and also directed it together. With the 26-minute multi-award-winning film, the couple was invited to over 40 festivals worldwide. Nadine Keil also worked as assistant director on Norbert Keil's 4-minute English-language horror short film Twisted with Lilly Forgách and Philipp Moschitz , which debuted in the United States in August 2012.

On April 11, 2017, Keil celebrated his debut with the world premiere of his film Replace at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival with his first full-length English-language production. He wrote the script for the horror flick together with the native speaker Richard Stanley . The film with Rebecca Forsythe , Lucie Aron , Barbara Crampton , Sean Knopp , Adnan Maral and Agnes Kiyomi Decker was funded by the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and in 2017 was also shown at the Los Angeles Film Festival , the FrightFest in London, the 39th Moscow International Film Festival , the L 'Etrange Festival in Paris, at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal and at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival .

In September 2016, he and his wife founded another company, Wunderbar Film Verwaltungs GmbH , based in Munich.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1999: Divided into four at dawn (horror short film; screenplay and director)
  • 2004: Welcome to Werewolfland (editor; director: Jörg Bauer)
  • 2005: Chatting with Eli Roth (editor; director: Jörg Bauer)
  • 2005: ... by all means! (Feature film; screenplay, direction, editing and production)
  • 2009: Bathtub for Happiness (short film; screenplay, direction and editing)
  • 2012: Twisted (horror short; screenplay and direction)
  • 2017: Replace (horror thriller; screenplay and direction)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul risker: Horror Director Norbert Keil and actor Barbara Crampton Discuss the Pleasures of the genre. PopMatters, September 1, 2017.
  2. ↑ ThaS: Divided into four at dawn. Horror-Page.de
  3. ^ Scream 3 (2000). Spielfilm.de.
  4. ↑ Imprint. Trailerhaus GmbH; accessed on September 1, 2017.
  5. ^ "Replace" celebrates its world premiere at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival. Press release FilmFernsehFonds Bayern from April 22, 2017.
  6. ↑ Heather Wixson: LAFF 2017 Interview: Norbert Keil, Barbara Crampton, and Rebecca Forsythe Talk Replace. Daily Dead, June 17, 2017.
  7. ^ Replace. UK premiere. FrightFest 2017.
  8. ↑ Norbert Keil. IFF Moscow, 2017.
  9. ↑ Jérémie Pottier: L'Etrange Festival 2017 teases first titles, full line-up to come. ScreenAnarchy.com, August 9, 2017.
  10. ^ Replace. Canadian premiere. ( Memento of the original of September 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fantasiafestival.com archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Fantasia International Film Festival 2017.
  11. ^ Replace. Asian premiere. Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival 2017.
  12. ↑ Wunderbar Film Verwaltungs GmbH at web2.cylex.de.
personal data
SURNAME Wedge, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm