Tom Sommerlatte (actor)

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Tom Sommerlatte (born February 12, 1985 in Wiesbaden ) is a German actor and director.

Life

Tom Sommerlatte was born in Wiesbaden as the 10th of his parents' 11 children. He grew up in a forest settlement near Wiesbaden. After graduating from high school, he studied acting at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy School, a university for music and theater in Leipzig.

After training as an actor, he took part in individual coaching with Kristiane Kupfer in 2006 and in a military bootcamp with Paul Hornsby and Billy Budd in 2007. From 2009 to 2010 he learned biomechanics with Tony de Maeyer.

Sommerlatte lives in Berlin, speaks German, English and French and has a command of both the Hessian and North German dialects.

Filmography

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As an actor

As a director

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  • 2013 In summer he lives downstairs (teaser; feature film concept)
  • 2013 On the Dog (short film)
  • 2014 In summer he lives downstairs (short film)
  • 2017 Warning Berlin - Festival Trailer 2018 (Trailer)
  • 2018 Brother Sister Heart (feature film)

As a co-director

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  • 2013 In summer he lives downstairs (teaser; feature film concept)
  • 2012 Your Berlin (short film)

As a screenwriter

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  • 2013 On the Dog (short film)
  • 2013 In summer he lives downstairs (teaser; feature film concept)
  • 2014 In summer he lives downstairs (feature film)
  • 2018 Brother Sister Heart (feature film)

Awards

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2014 "Got the dog":

  • Audience Award Landshut Short Film Festival 2015

2015 "In summer he lives downstairs":

  • Berlinale opening film Perspective German Cinema 2015
  • DFJW Prize ´Dialogue en perspective´ at the Berlinale 2015
  • ´Best feature film´ at the 11th Achtung Berlin - new berlin film award 2015
  • Opening film 25th Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Film Festival 2015
  • Filmkunstpreis 2015 at the 11th Festival of German Film in Ludwigshafen 2015
  • Prize in the "New German Films" category at the 12th Freiburg Film Festival 2015
  • Five Lakes Film Festival 2015
  • Montreal World Film Festival 2015
  • Audience award at the 10th Ahrenshooper Film Nights 2015
  • German Independence Audience Award at the 22nd Oldenburg International Film Festival 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b https://www.film-rezensions.de/2019/10/tom-sommerlatte-interview/ accessed on May 1, 2020
  2. https://www.filmportal.de/person/tom-sommerlatte_88221ba1e9b44015814cc9c5e1d53fc2 accessed on May 1, 2020
  3. a b c d e https://filmmakers.de/tom-sommerlatte accessed on May 1, 2020
  4. https://www.management-goldschmidt.de/en/actor/tom-sommerlatte/ accessed on May 1, 2020
  5. a b c d https://www.crew-united.com/de/Tom-Sommerlatte_95681.html accessed on May 1, 2020