Christoph Thoke

Christoph Thoke (* November 15, 1960 ) is a German film and television producer.

Thoke began his career in the film and television industry as an On- Air Promotion Producer for the German television channel RTL 2 and the German - French TV channel ARTE. From 1996 he worked in the management of the Taunus Film GmbH, later CineMedia Film AG, first as assistant manager then. As a project manager for international co-productions and license trading When TaunusFilm he was particularly responsible for any international productions and the construction of the Los Angeles office of the Taunus Film International while at the CineMedia Film AG License coordinated purchases such as for the Mel Gibson film What Women Want.

Christoph Thoke also produced during this time, the Algerian- French- German coproduction Little Senegal (2001) by director Rachid Bouchareb 's official entry in the race for the Best Foreign Language Oscar in 2001 Lubov and other Nightmares by Russian director Andrei Nekrasov, premiered at Sundance in 2002 and the two German productions Planet B, The Antman and Planet B, Detective Lovelorn, both premiered at the 52nd Berlin Film Festival in the series " perspective German Cinema".

2003 Christoph Thoke made ​​independently. Together with partner Axel Moebius, he founded the film production Thoke Moebius film, represented in Berlin, Cologne and Frankfurt. Since then, he produced and co-produced nine feature films, among others, Bruno Dumont's Twentynine Palms, competition film in Venice in 2003, Tropical Malady, Competition film at Cannes in 2004 and there received the Jury Prize, Buffalo Boy, official entry to the Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2006 and Wedding Chest / Kyrgyz dowry official entry to the foreign Language Film Oscar in 2007.

To date, Christoph Thoke at Thoke Moebius produced or co-produced film cinema productions have been invited worldwide to more than 330 film festivals and won more than 70 prizes. In 2011 he produced Naked Harbour, a Finnish drama.