Torsten Truscheit

Torsten Truscheit (* 1966 in Kreuztal , Siegen-Wittgenstein district ) is a German screenwriter , director , film dramaturge , cameraman and film editor . He mainly works in the field of documentary film .

Life

After initial training as a surveying technician, Truscheit studied media planning, development and consulting at the University of Siegen , graduating in 1996. He then worked as a freelance editor and cameraman. From 1997 to 2000 he completed postgraduate studies in directing / documentary film at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg , including participation in the exchange program with the EICTV film school in Cuba . His graduation film Rabelados was made together with the teacher, architect, production designer and director Ana Rocha Fernandes , who was born in Cape Verde - the land of the film industry - in 1971 and studied with him. Since then he has also cooperated with her on other projects.

Truscheit produces documentary films and series as well as reports for SWR (e.g. for Fahr mal hin ), NDR , RBB and ZDF . He is also an employee in the directing department at the Merz Academy . Truscheit is a member of the documentary film working group . Today he lives and works - just like Ana Rocha Fernandes - freelance in Stuttgart .

Filmography (selection)

Truscheit's work as a director so far includes:

• 1999: The ninth spring (TV documentary about the history of the Thuringian town of Artern and its wrestling club after the fall of the Wall)
• 2000: Rabelados - The Nonviolent Rebels of the Cape Verde Islands (16 mm documentary film, about a religious minority that has adhered to the requirements of the Catholic Church and state centralism since the 1940s, when Catholicism under the Portuguese dictator Salazar was the state religion and oppressive Colonial policy was pursued, refused and therefore discriminated or brutally persecuted)
• 2002: Young Hearts - On a Long Journey into Life (twelve-part TV documentary series, about young people during an educational world tour on the sailing ship Thor Heyerdahl as part of a project by the Hermann Lietz School Spiekeroog )
• 2009: The Rush of the Sea (short film about an African refugee and a prison guard in a German deportation prison)
• 2012: Golfo Popular - The Story of the Black Lords (full-length film, about the true story of the first African golf team); Directed, written and edited together with Ana Rocha Fernandes

Awards and nominations (selection)

• 1998: Special award from the East Thuringian newspaper Gera at the 15th Video / Film Days in Gera for The Ninth Spring
• 2000: Nomination for the Adolf Grimme Prize for The Ninth Spring
• 2001: Critics Week Award - Special Mention at the Locarno International Film Festival for The Rush of the Sea , together with Ana Rocha Fernandes
• 2010: Baden-Württemberg Film Prize in the short film category for Das Rauschen des Meeres , together with Ana Rocha Fernandes.
• 2011: Best Women's Short Film Award - Runner-up (second place) at the Cleveland International Film Festival for the sound of the sea (English: The Roar of the Sea ), along with Ana Rocha Fernandes
• 2011: Faial Filmes Fest (Azores Film Fest): Best short film for Das Rauschen des Meeres (Portuguese: O ruído do mar ), together with Ana Rocha Fernandes
• 2011: Prize of the jury at the Cabo Verde International Film Festival for The Sound of the Sea (Portuguese: O ruído do mar ), together with Ana Rocha Fernandes
• 2011: In December, reached the sound of the sea among a total of 107 applications in the field live action shorts (not animated shorts) - shortlisted for the nominations for the Academy Awards 2012 as Best Short Film was nominated but then Raju by director Max Count .

literature

• Torsten Truscheit: How documentary is the docu-soap? A practical report. In: David Oels, Stephan Porombka, Erhard Schütz (Eds.): Non Fiction. Arsenal of the other genera. H. 2. Weidler Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISSN  1862-9563 , pp. 198-204.
• Torsten Truscheit: The mutants of the documentary. In: Kay Hoffmann, Peter Zimmermann (eds.): Documentary film in transition: cinema - television - new media. (= Close up. 19). UVK Verlagsgesellschaft , Konstanz 2006, ISBN 3-89669-681-5 , pp. 271-273.

Web links

• Torsten Truscheit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Torsten Truscheit at filmportal.de
• Projects saved at crew united
• Torsten Truscheit: Background: The 7th year itch , p. 8/9 in: SWR TV, Press Office Program Press (Ed.): Young documentary, start of new season October 29, 2007 , Baden-Baden 2007 ( PDF file ; 1, 7 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A touch of Hollywood ... , Siegener Zeitung , January 3, 2012.
2. ↑ Kreuztaler reaches for the stars. on: derwesten.de , January 11, 2012.
3. ↑ Merz Academy: People  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Web business card at AG DOK
5. ↑ Description at filmportal.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Press report about the making of the film: Truscheit: Rübenschnitzel aroused interest. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . March 12, 1998.
7. ^ Website for the film
8. ↑ Archive Video / Film-Tage: Prize winners 1998  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ IMDb
10. ↑ IMDb
11. ↑ The Critics Week Award is an award within the framework of the Semaine de la critique , an independent festival section devoted primarily to documentary film, and from the Swiss Association of Film Journalists (SVFJ) in cooperation with the director and organizers of the Locarno Film Festival is organized.
12. ↑ Winner 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ 35th Cleveland International Film Festival Awards ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ Notícias: 7 ° e último dia: Sangue do meu sangue venceu Festival de Cinema dos Açores ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2016 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. , azoresfilmfestival.org, November 6, 2011. 
15. ^ Cabo Verde International Film Festival: Os Resultados
16. ↑ Press release of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: 10 Live Action Shorts Advance in Oscar® Race , December 14, 2011.
17. ↑ Press release from the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy : Film Academy graduates Torsten Truscheit and Ana Rocha Fernandes with “Das Rauschen des Meeres” on the shortlist for the short film Oscar ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link became automatic used and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 15, 2011.