Orlando from Einsiedel

Orlando von Einsiedel in Gothenburg in December 2017.

Orlando Ernie Benedict von Einsiedel (born August 19, 1980 in London ) is a British documentary filmmaker . He became known through the skateboard short documentary Skateistan: To Live and Skate in Kabul about the Skateistan project with young people in Kabul , Afghanistan .

Life

Producer Joanna Natasegara and Orlando von Einsiedel thank for the Peabody Award for Virunga (2015)

As the son of Andreas Jean-Paul Graf von Einsiedel and Harriet Angela Victoria Duckworth, Orlando von Einsiedel belongs to the old Meissen aristocratic family Einsiedel ; through his mother he also comes from the British aristocracy. He grew up in London and attended the London School of Economics and Political Science , where he studied social anthropology and graduated with a Masters in Developmental Studies . He started out as a snowboarder and thus financed his film career. He first made a few snowboard films before attempting short documentaries. One of his best-known early works is the film Skateistan: To Live and Skate in Kabul , which focuses on the NGO of the same name , which teaches young people in Kabul to skateboard and tries to resolve cultural differences.

In 2014 his first feature film Virunga , u. a. produced by Leonardo DiCaprio , who describes the fight of the park rangers of the Virunga National Park to preserve the endangered mountain gorillas against various rebel groups that have settled in the park, as well as an oil company. The film was nominated at the 2015 Academy Awards in the category “Best Documentary” . In 2017 , the documentary short film The White Helmets won the Oscar in the category “Best Documentary Short Film” .

Orlando von Einsiedel is a co-founder of the film production company Grain Media.

Filmography (selection)

2010: Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul
2011: The Forced Marriage Unit
2011: Radio Amina
2011: My Name Is Feker
2011: Little Voice, Big Mountain
2012: Aisha's Song
2013: We Ride: The Story of Snowboarding
2014: Virunga
2016: The White Helmets (The White Helmets)

Web links

Commons : Orlando von Einsiedel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Orlando von Einsiedel in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Orlando von Einsiedel ( Memento of the original dated February 22, 2018 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. on geneanet.org @1@ 2

↑ Orlando Ernie Benedict von Einsiedel on thepeerage.com , accessed September 13, 2016.

↑ ^a ^b Larry Rohter: War and gorillas and Other Hazards of Documentary Filmmaking. The Carpetbagger, January 5, 2015, accessed February 6, 2015 .

↑ Orlando von Einsiedel: I think I spent three years worrying about how doing an Anthropology degree was going to get me a job. University of Manchester , accessed February 6, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	From Einsiedel, Orlando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Von Einsiedel, Orlando Ernie Benedict (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH	19th August 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH	London

[1] Orlando von Einsiedel ( Memento of the original dated February 22, 2018 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. on geneanet.org @1@ 2

[2] Orlando Ernie Benedict von Einsiedel on thepeerage.com , accessed September 13, 2016.

[cp-3] Larry Rohter: War and gorillas and Other Hazards of Documentary Filmmaking. The Carpetbagger, January 5, 2015, accessed February 6, 2015 .

[4] Orlando von Einsiedel: I think I spent three years worrying about how doing an Anthropology degree was going to get me a job. University of Manchester , accessed February 6, 2015 .