Marco Kreuzpaintner
Kreuzpaintner ( born March 11, 1977 in Rosenheim, Bavaria ) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer.
Life
Kreuzpaintner studied art history in Salzburg. The film craft he taught himself for jobs in film, commercial and music video production. He was an assistant to Peter Lilienthal and 1998 by Edgar Reitz. In 1999 he took the German dubbing assistant to Stanley Stanley Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut.
In the same year his first short film Entering Reality attracted attention at film festivals. With Oliver Weiss 1999, he founded the production company Film Factory. In 2000 they created the short film The breath artist who was nominated for the Talent Price First Steps, 2002, the television pilot Rec - Cassette girls / guys cassettes. His film Not at all has been nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize.
In 2003, his first feature film came Absolutely in the cinemas, which depicts the life of a young amputee. 2004 saw the drama summer storm, itself inspired by Kreuzpaintner information to his own coming -out as a young gay man. 2005 Kreuzpaintner was named Best New Director for his directed " Summer Storm " with the New Faces Award. 2006 followed the script for the film adaptation of the book The Youth cloud, which was awarded the Bavarian Film Award for Best Children 's and Youth Film.
2007 was the American movie Trade - Welcome to America with Kevin Kline internationally in theaters. It's about human trafficking, forced prostitution and modern day slavery. Kreuzpaintner has been awarded the Cinema for Peace Special Award of the Hessian Film Award for this film. Trade was produced by Rosilyn Heller and was originally to be filmed and directed by Roland Emmerich; as this, however, at the same time in preparation for his directorial project 10,000 BC stuck, he sought another director and while getting to know in Munich Kreuzpaintner 2003. Trade was the first film ever was able to experience his first performance before the United Nations General Assembly at the invitation of Ban Ki Moon. For Trade Kreuzpaintner also received the prestigious film prize " The Bridge - the Peace Prize of the German film ".
On October 9, 2008 Krabat came to German cinemas, a film adaptation of the same name by Otfried Preußler YA. Main characters in the film are Shia LaBeouf, Daniel Brühl and David Kross. The film was 1.8 million moviegoers one of the movie highlights in 2008 and was, inter alia, awarded the Bavarian Film Prize.
2009 founded director Kreuzpaintner in Berlin production company Summer Storm Entertainment. Involved are the producers Gabriela Bacher and Fabian Wolfart. The Company's projects, a Brazilian- German co-production is one with the working title Her Name Was Lola. The romantic comedy will be shot in English, and is about a woman from London who falls in love with a young man from Rio de Janeiro. The Brazilian actor Jonathan Haagensen accepts the male lead.
Kreuzpaintner is a member of the Federal Association Director, the Directors Guild of America, the German Film Academy and the European Film Academy