Oli Weiss

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Oli Weiss (* 1970 in Herford ) is a German film editor and filmmaker .

Life

Growing up in West Berlin , he began working in film in 1992 at the Kaskeline Film Academy . His first job in film was on the set of Der Kinoerzähler in the Babelsberg film studios as an intern on the production line. In 1993, he met Peter Przygodda in Munich at the shooting of the film Transatlantis by Christian Wagner know and worked for many years in numerous productions with Przygodda together, among others, with Romuald Karmakar , Volker Schlöndorff and Wim Wenders . The highlights of the collaboration were the joint nominations for Best Editing at the European Film Prize 2005 for Don't Come Knocking (Director: Wim Wenders) and the nomination for Best Editing at the German Film Prize 2009 , together with Mirko Scheel , for Palermo Shooting (Director: Wim Wenders).

In 2008 Weiss took part in the EFA Masterclass "The Cutting Edge" with Hervé Schneid and in 2012 in the cutting seminar of the San Francisco Art Institute with Jay Boekelheide . In the mid-1990s, he started a production company. He has produced and directed various short and documentary films. In 1999 he founded the company Die Filmmanufaktur in Munich with Marco Kreuzpaintner on the premises of the Bavaria Filmstudios . Weiss worked with directors such as Mika Kaurismäki , Nico von Glasow, Winrich Kolbe , John Irvin , Gavin Millar , Volker Schlöndorff, Wim Wenders, Marco Kreuzpaintner, Viviane Blumenschein , Katja von Garnier and Brigitte Maria Bertele . He is a member of the European Film Academy and the German Film Academy . For the German Film Prize 2018 he was elected to the pre-selection committee of the section editing.

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personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Oli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film editor and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford