Erwin Wagenhofer

Erwin Wagenhofer ( born May 27, 1961 in Amstetten, Lower Austria ) is an Austrian author and filmmaker.

Life and work

Erwin Wagenhofer graduated from the Technological Museum of Applied Arts Vienna in the Department of Communications and Electronics. There followed a three-year development activity at Philips Austria in the video department. Wagenhofer realized at this time first short films. The first of these he set in 1981 terminus finished normally. His 1983 short film turned The hole was shown at the Krakow Film Festival.

In 1983 he moved into the film industry, where he worked as a freelance director and camera assistant for several ORF productions as well as feature films and documentaries was active until 1987. Since 1987 he has been a freelance writer and filmmaker. As such, he created in 1988 his first cinematic portrait of the artist: in the fragmentary in the art, he portrayed Oswald Oberhuber. The film was shown in the ORF program art pieces as well as at the Austrian Film Festival Wels.

From 1995 to 2000 he was a lecturer at the Danube University in Krems, he taught there at the European Academy for Journalists trays camera and TV documentary. From 2002 to 2010 he was a lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Since 2001, car Hofer has also completed several screenplays for feature films and documentaries that have not yet been realized. These include the feature film screenplays Forget envious! (2001) and Oh ... Paul (2005 ) as well as the script for the C2H5OH Documentation - ethanol or plain alcohol ( 2003).

Completed in 2005 Wagenhofer his first feature documentary for cinema: We Feed the World. The film produced by the Allegro documentation deals with the increasing industrialization of food production and takes a critical look at the international agricultural policy, and in particular the role of the EU in this context. The film reached Europe about 800,000 visitors, was shown at numerous festivals and won several awards.

On the occasion of World Savings Day, which was celebrated in Germany on 30 October 2008, launched car Hofer's new documentary Let's Make Money in German cinemas in Austria the next day. The film documents the flow of money in the global financial system and witnessed the unequal distribution of wealth in the world as well as within societies.

2010 presented Wagenhofer before his first feature film. Black Brown White tells the story of an Austrian truck driver who not only vegetables transported from Morocco to Austria, but of illegally against high pay in his semi truck Africans to Spain. In this fictional work Wagenhofer likewise has to blatant abuses in the social system of the industrialized countries.

After the issues the food industry and the money economy turned Wagenhofer 2013 his documentary Alphabet against which deals critically with the international education systems.

Filmography

At the premiere of his film We Feed the World in Gartenbaukino Vienna.

Awards

• Toronto International Film Festival 2005: Official Selection
• International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2005: Competition in
• BRITDOC Oxford Film Festival 2006: Competition in
• Motovun Film Festival: Amnesty International Human Rights Award
• Motovun Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize
• International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film 2006: Best Documentary
• Austrian Film Prize 2006
• International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2008: Competition in
• Austrian Film Award (Austrian ticket ) 2008
• Sundance Film Festival 2009: Competition in
• HotDocs Film Festival 2009: Competition in
• German Documentary Film Prize / Dokville 2009
• WorldShift Ethics Award 2009
• Thomas Pluch Appreciation Award 2011

Publications

• With Sabine Kriechbaum, André Stern: alphabet: fear or love. Ecowin Verlag, Salzburg, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7110-0041-5