Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann

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Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann (2018)

Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann ( Japanese 洋子 ・ 樋 口 ＝ ツ ィ ッ ツ マ ン, 樋 口 洋子 ; born May 31, 1971 in Hyōgo , Japan ) is a German- Japanese film producer .

Life

Higuchi-Zitzmann studied as a scholarship holder of studienstiftung law in Bonn , Lausanne and at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich . In 1999 she began her professional career as an acquisition manager at Prokino Filmverleih GmbH and supported the management in international film purchases for five years. In 2004 she moved to Constantin Film AG and was in charge of international film purchasing until 2008. She made a decisive contribution to the establishment of commercial arthouse titles such as Die Kinder des Monsieur Mathieu , Motorcycle Diaries (German title: Die Reisen des Junge Che) and La vie en rose (director: Olivier Dahan ), which won two Oscar awards in 2008 and received a nomination and a Golden Globe .

As head of film rights trading at Telepool GmbH, she was responsible for the company's international expansion. From 2010, Higuchi-Zitzmann set up the cinema production department at Ziegler Film GmbH & Co KG together with Tanja Ziegler and introduced numerous development processes for cinema productions. In addition, she realized the film Frisch gepresst (2012) together with producer Regina Ziegler, distributed by Disney and Mein Blind Date mit dem Leben (2017) together with producer Tanja Ziegler and executive producer Anja Föringer, distributed by Studio Canal . The latter was seen by over 900,000 moviegoers in German-speaking countries and received two Bambi nominations.

Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann has been working as a producer and executive producer at Letterbox Filmproduktion GmbH , which belongs to the Studio Hamburg production group, since 2018 .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2012: Freshly pressed
  • 2016: my blind date with life

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Focus: Film | News | Yoko Higuchi heads the licensing business at Constantin. (No longer available online.) August 8, 2005, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 17, 2019 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mediabiz.de  
  2. ^ Scott Roxborough: Constantine loses head of acquisitions. In: hollywoodreporter.com. July 14, 2008, accessed March 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann switches to Telepool. July 14, 2008, accessed March 17, 2019 .
  4. ^ Ziegler Film launches movie label ZIEGLER CINEMA. March 19, 2010, accessed March 17, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Jochen Müller: "My blind date with life" also in international demand. In: beta.blickpunktfilm.de. February 9, 2017, accessed March 17, 2019 .
  6. ↑ BAMBI 2017: These are the nominees for the BAMBI categories Actor and Film National - BAMBI. In: bambi.de. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
  7. ↑ "Teamwork is the most important thing". Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
  8. ↑ LETTERBOX FILM PRODUCTION. Retrieved January 4, 2019 .
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personal data
SURNAME Higuchi-Zitzmann, Yoko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Japanese film producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Hyogo , Japan