Roman Vital

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Roman Vital (born July 29, 1975 in Chur ) is a Swiss filmmaker from Arosa .

life and work

Roman Vital grew up as the youngest of three children in Arosa. In his youth he played ice hockey at EHC Arosa . His mother comes from Luzein , where her parents settled from Italy. Father Vincenz Vital, who grew up in Sent , is an independent businessman and the predecessor of Lorenzo Schmid as Arosa mayor.

After attending the Bündner teachers' seminar in Chur , Roman Vital devoted himself to filming. From 1996 to 2000 he studied communication science and journalism at the University of Freiburg . Between 2001 and 2006 he attended the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy , specializing in montage and documentary film . Together with Andri Probst, the managing director of Arosa Kultur, and others, he has been running the production company klubkran Filmproduktion in Zurich since 2006 . The productions of this label, in which Vitals is involved, include DVD titles such as Für das ich lebe , Arosa isch Besser and Skischule Arosa . In 2010, Roman Vital and Stefan Jäger made a documentary about Biberstein Castle as part of the TV program SF bi de Lüt .

Vital's documentary Life in Paradise - Illegale in der Neighborhood from 2013, which is set in the asylum exit center Flüeli in Valzeina , won the special prize of the jury at the Festival international du film des droits de l'homme in Paris as well as the first Grand Prize of the United Nations Refugee Agency ( UNHCR ). The production of the strip cost around 300,000 francs , 140,000 of which came from a third party; the rest was financed privately. The Swiss television showed the film on May 15, 2014.

Awards

  • 2020: LOS selected in the New Frontier section at the Sundance Film Festival
  • 2015: Audience award at the international film festival in Trento for the best long documentary for "Life in Paradise"
  • 2015: Special prize of the jury “MUSEO DEGLI USI E COSTUMI DELLA GENTE TRENTINA” for “Life in Paradise” at the international film festival in Trento
  • 2014: Grand Prix UNHCR at the international film festival droits de l'homme Paris for "Life in Paradise"
  • 2014: Special Price Jury at the international film festival droits de l'homme Paris for "Life in Paradise"
  • 2010: Award of the Canton of Graubünden
  • 2010 winner of the "best environmental feature" at the Mountain Film Festival Mammoth (USA) for "Arosa isch better"

Filmography (selection)

  • 2020: GO (VR film)
  • 2014: René Live - Man versus Machine (documentary)
  • 2013: Life in Paradise (feature documentary)
  • 2011: SF bi de Lüt - Das kleine Paradies (documentary series for SF with Stefan Jäger )
  • 2010: SF bi de Lüt - Schloss Biberstein (documentary series for SF with Stefan Jäger )
  • 2008: Arosa isch better (documentary)

Varia

Roman Vital has iris heterochromia : his right eye is blue, the other is brown.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vital: "Try to let viewers decide". In: suedostschweiz.ch. April 26, 2013, accessed April 5, 2014 .
  2. ^ Documentary film "Life in Paradise" by Roman Vital received an award in Paris. In: suedostschweiz.ch. April 1, 2014, accessed April 5, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Die Südostschweiz, April 2, 2014, p. 9.
  4. ↑ Paradise in shades of gray - a filmmaker looks , in: reformiert., No. 6 from June 2014, p. 12.
  5. ↑ Paradise in shades of gray - a filmmaker looks , in: reformiert., No. 6 from June 2014, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Vital, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur