Werner Boats
Werner Boats (born June 2, 1965 in Vienna , Austria ) is an Austrian film director and author who worked in Amsterdam from 1993 to 2002 and now lives in Vienna.
Boats made a name for himself with his film Kurt Rydl - The Gladiator (2003): The film represented the ORF at the Emmy Awards and was nominated for the European film award at FIPA Biarritz .
Boats has been making films since 1993, which are mainly related to music. B. Anouk - Sacrifice (1999), for which he received the The Music Factory (TMF) award, as well as Andrea Bocelli - Cieli di Toscana (2002) or the films in his series Opera Quest ("Opernsuche") such as Der Fliegende Holländer - Fire and Ice, which received Best Of INPUT recognition , and Parsifal - Richard Wagner and Indiana Jones (2005). In 1996 he shot the political documentary Südtirol - Alto Adige .
Boats received numerous awards, including twice the Dolphin in France, the Best Tourism Film of the World , the Certificate For Creative Excellence at the US Film Festival and World Medals at the New York Film Festival .
As a " second unit director" specialized settling on stunt - and crowd scenes with up to 26,000 extras , such as the Bible - epic The Ten Commandments of Robert Dornhelm .
In 2009 Boats presented the documentary film Plastic Planet (with Neue Sentimental Film and Oscar winner ARSAM ( The Journey of the Penguins )) about the dangers of synthetic plastics in their various forms and their worldwide distribution, on which he had worked for around ten years. The documentary Population Boom was released in cinemas in 2013 : In it, Boats explores the question of whether overpopulation , i.e. the assumption that there are too many people on earth now or in the near future, is a real danger, or rather a question of Distributive justice is.
In December 2015, his documentary Everything under Control was released in Austrian cinemas. In this film, he addresses the ubiquitous digital surveillance and speaks to experts and opponents about this topic. As in the two films mentioned above, he travels to important locations around the world.
Boot's film The Green Lie , which he shot together with Kathrin Hartmann , starts on March 9, 2018 in Austria and on March 22, 2018 in Germany. The film premiered at the Berlinale 2018 . This examines the attempt by food companies to make products appear "greener" than they are ( greenwashing ).
Web links
- Werner Boats website
- Werner Boote in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- "Against Poison" - Interview with Werner Boats in the magazine uMag (February 2010)
Individual evidence
- ↑ derstandard.at: In the data jungle run: "Everything under control" by Werner Boats . Report dated December 18, 2015, accessed December 27, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boats, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian author and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |