Savaş Ceviz

Savaş Ceviz is a Turkish-born German filmmaker . The director , screenwriter and film producer's first short film Alemanya (2002) was screened successfully at international festivals, received film awards and was integrated into a full-length episode film in 2006.

Life

After studying business administration at the University of Cologne with a degree in business administration (1992), Savaş Ceviz worked for several years as a producer and editor at RTL, occasionally as a product manager at EMI Electrola. From 1997 he was Director Development & Production at Saban Entertainment in Cologne, responsible for TV-Movie co-productions. At the beginning of 1998 he switched to Studio Babelsberg, where he was head of international co-production until 2001. During this time he was in charge of the coproductions Gangster No. 1 and everyone's festival . He then worked until 2002 as VP Content / Program Director for the London Internet TV station IchooseTV in Berlin. In 1996 Ceviz graduated from the New York Film Academy (NYFA) in New York. For his image film Winkler & Dünenbier he was awarded the Video and TV New Media Award for high standard in 1998 and silver for directing at the 7th ITVA Festival.

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For his short fiction film Alemanya , made in 2002 and shown at numerous film festivals (e.g. Hof International Film Festival , Max Ophüls Film Festival ), he received the audience award of the 27th Young Collection short film competition in Bremen in 2004 , as well as the renowned Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Short Film Award from the previous year. The State Filmbewertungsstelle recorded Alemanya also with the title "especially valuable" from. The almost fifteen-minute short film, on which prominent actors such as Mehmet Yilmaz , Adnan Maral and Martin Brambach worked, was made under Ceviz's direction and production management based on his own script. In 2006, Alemanya , which takes place in the trunk of a German holiday couple's Mercedes , came back to the cinema together with six other short films in a full-length film compilation entitled Schöne Aussichten .

Ceviz shot a documentary about the blind painter Eşref Armağan , entitled The Blind Painter , for television in 2005. This was broadcast in 2006 in the first ARD program. Like Alemanya , The Blind Painter also came from his Berlin-based Savaş Ceviz Production or MusOna Film Production .

In 2006, Ceviz filmed GG 19 - Germany in 19 Articles - Article 2 with the title Stehplatz and Max Riemelt in the lead role, as part of the filming of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany, which came into German cinemas in 2007.

In addition to his directing projects and productions, Ceviz took part in various film projects. This is also the case with the mountaineering drama North Face , for which he had the idea and which was created on his initiative. He also took over the script development and dramaturgical advice and advised the production on financing and casting. Nordwand had its cinema premiere in 2008 and was hailed as the renaissance of mountaineering films.

In 2010, Savaş Ceviz and his production company MusOna Filmproduktion realized the 93-minute theatrical version of the documentary The One With Your Fingers . The film about the unique painter Eşref Armagan, blind from birth, who can paint and draw in perspective, premiered in May 2011 and was shown in over 40 cinemas in Germany. In 2012 he was awarded the audience prize at the German Audio Film Prize.

Filmography

• 1996: Laundry Day, 16mm , short film, drama, 9 min. Production, screenplay, direction & editing (graduation film in New York)
• 1998: Winkler & Dünnebier, 16 / 35mm, image film, 5 min. Direction, concept & text
• 2002: Alemanya, Super 16mm, short film, drama, 16 min. Production, screenplay & direction
• 2004: North Face, movie. Idea for the film, script development, dramaturgical advice & financial / cast advice
• 2006/07: The blind man, documentary, 30 min. Production, script & direction
• 2006/07: GG 19 - The film adaptation of the Basic Law, super 16mm, episode cinema film, 120 min. Episode standing room , drama, 9 min. Script & direction
• 2007/08: Everything stays different, feature film. Script (script funding by the FFA)
• 2009/10: He who sees with his fingers, documentary, 90 min. Production, script, direction, narrator & co-editing
• 2019: Head burst , feature film

Festival participation (selection)

• Int. Hof Film Festival (2002 with Alemanya)
• Filmfest Biberach (2002 with Alemanya)
• Max Ophüls Film Festival, Saarbrücken (2003 with Alemanya)
• Bamberg Short Film Festival (2003 with Alemanya)
• Interfilm Nürnberg (2003 with Alemanya)
• Valenciennes Film Festival (2003 with Alemanya)
• Filmfest Emden (2003 with Alemanya)
• Film Festival Huesca (2003 with Alemanya)
• Film Festival Flensburg (2003 with Alemanya)

Prices

• Video u. TV New Media Award for high standard (1998 for Winkler & Dünnebier)
• 7th ITVA Festival, silver for direction (1998 for Winkler & Dünnebier)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Short Film Award (2003 for Alemanya)
• 1st prize YOUNG COLLECTION, Bremen (2004 for Alemanya)
• German Audio Film Award, Audience Award, (2012 for He Who Sees With His Fingers)

literature

• Horst Müller, Savaş Ceviz: Effect of trailers. A field experiment to promote cinema films . In: Marketing. Journal for Research and Practice 15: 2, 1993, pp. 87-94.

Web links

• Savas Ceviz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Savaş Ceviz at filmportal.de
• Project page from GG19
• German Audio Film Award 2012
• Trailer for Who sees with his fingers