Jochen Alexander Freydank
Jochen Alexander Freydank ( born September 15, 1967 in East Berlin ) is a German film director. Since 1999, he has realized several films, including the Oscar-winning film Toyland.
Life
Freydank began in the early 1990s as an editor and assistant director for various television and film productions. After he was rejected five times as a student of film schools in Berlin and Potsdam, Freydank founded in 1999 with the film Mephisto his own film production company.
His first Short was the macabre Comedy Happy Ending, price took the Freydank among others at the Film Festival Max Ophüls in the competition. Followed in 2001 and 2002, the Emergency Short Satire service. The film had its world premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival. After two years of preparatory work Freydank realized the short film Toyland, who won over 30 international awards. In February 2009, Toyland was awarded the Academy Award for Best Short Film.
Freydank wrote screenplays for the crime series Police 110 and the serial Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen, Medicopter 117 - Every life counts and Klinikum Berlin Mitte - life on standby. From 2007 to mid-2009 Freydank was as a producer for the children's series last Saturday! the Bavarian Radio and the ARD series operates in all friendship.
Freydank has directed commercials and corporate films, produced plays, the comedy Johnny Chicago with Kurt Kroemer at the Berlin Volksbühne, realized crime scenes for ARD and 2011, the winner of the Bavarian Television Award for Best Director tragicomedy And off you go for satellite 1
Currently Freydank working on the film adaptation of the Kafka story The Burrow. Shooting starts this movie was the 28th January 2013.
Jochen Alexander Freydank is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Filmography (selection)
Awards
2013
- Bavarian Television Award, Best Director for And off you go
2009
- Oscar for Best Short Film for Toyland
- Washington Jewish Film Festival, USA, audience award for Toyland
- Kansas City Film Festival, USA, best narrative short for Toyland
- Phoenix Film Festival, USA, world cinema for best short Toyland
- Pittsburgh Jewish Film Festival, USA, audience award for Toyland
- Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival, USA, audience award for Toyland
- Rehoboth Film Festival, USA, audience award for Toyland
- Villa Mare Film Festival, Italy, audience award for Toyland
- Reno Film Festival, USA, best foreign movie for Toyland
- Portland International Film Festival, USA, audience award (second place) for Toyland
- Lenola Film Festival, Italy, best film "best soundtrack " for Toyland
- Anchorage Film Festival, USA, audience award for Toyland
- New Jersey Film Festival, USA, honorable mention for Toyland
- Cleveland International Film Festival, USA, audience award ' for Toyland
- San Diego Jewish Film Festival, USA, audience award for Toyland
2008
- Short Shorts Film Festival Tokyo, Japan, audience award for Toyland
- Friedrich- Wilhelm -Murnau -Stiftung short film award for Toyland
- Bermuda International Film Festival, Shorts Film Award for Toyland
- Rhode Iceland International Film Festival, second place International Discovery Award for Toyland
- Giffoni Film Festival, Italy, APEC gold award for Toyland
- Alpinale Vorarlberg, Austria, audience award for Toyland
- Odense International Film Festival, Danmark, best children and youth movie for Toyland
- Alemeria en Corto Film Festival, Spain, jury award and audience award for Toyland
- Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, USA audience award for Toyland
- Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, USA, audience award for Toyland
- Sedicicorto - International Film Festival Forli, Italy, Best short film for Toyland
- Asheville Film Festival, USA, Best short film for Toyland
- Victoria Independent Film Festival, Australia, Best short under 20 minutes for Toyland
- Festival Internacional de cortometrajes de Almería, audience award and jury award for Toyland
2007
- Valladolid International Film Festival Official Selection, Golden Spike for Toyland
2004
- Montecatini Film Festival, Italy, International Film Panorama best for service
2003
- Rüsselsheimer Short Film Festival Special Award for Service
- Montreal World Film Festival nomination for service
- Fantastisk Film Festival Malmö nomination for Best European Short Film for service
2002
- Audience award, spotlight, international TV and advertising film festival for hemp litter
- Cindy Gold Award by the Association of Audio Visual Communicators for hemp litter
- Silver Bear, Festival of Nations, Austria for emergency
- Corto web award, Archipelago Film Festival, Rome, Italy for emergency
2001
- Communication Association: " The flap in bronze " for hemp litter
- Audience award at the online film festival " Shorts welcome" for Happy Ending
Documentation
- Berlin Academy hope: short film director in the race for the trophy. Reportage, Germany, 2009, 3:55 min, Production: Spiegel TV, Air Date: February 9, 2009, online video at spiegel.de
- Jochen Alexander Freydank, director and Oscar winner interview on German TV wave with video