Matthias Mellinghaus

Matthias Mellinghaus ( born May 10, 1965 in Iserlohn ) is a grown up in Herdecke German rowing athletes and since 2000 living in Vancouver Film director and assistant director. With the aft Germany he won the gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.

Biography

After leaving school at the Friedrich- Harkort School in Herdecke Mellinghaus first studied German and history and then completed the study directing at the Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam (HFF "Konrad Wolf" ) in Potsdam- Babelsberg from. His thesis was about the film director and representative of the American independent film writer Hal Hartley.

He has worked in Canada, Morocco, Czech Republic and France in the fields of TV drama, TV series, documentary and advertising and is active mainly in the field of assistant director. In 2005 he worked at the consulting company Sea and Sky in Vancouver.

At the age of 23 he won in 1988 with Thomas Domian, Armin Eichholz, Dr. Wolfgang Maennig, Thomas Möllenkamp, Bahne Rabe, Eckhardt Schultz, Ansgar Wessling and the helmsman Manfred Klein in rowing eight Olympic gold medals. Mellinghaus started doing for his hometown club Rowing Club Westphalia Herdecke. Later, he turned on the first all-German rowing eight in 1996 the 30 - minute documentary Nine Men in a Boat ( Aqua film, Cologne).

Movies

Assistant director for international productions:

  • 2001: Baby Geniuses II ( 2nd Unit ), cinema ( Germany / USA / UK )
  • 2002: Wildfire 7, Canadian Drama
  • 2003: The Legend of Eileen Chang, Canadian television series in four episodes
  • 2003: Deepwater, Canadian Feature
  • 2004: Too cool for Christmas, Canadian Feature
  • 2004: Thrall, Canadian TV movie
  • 2004: Sam 's Lake, Canadian Feature
  • 2005: Young Blades, Franco-British television series

Assistant director at German TV-Filmen/-Serien:

Works

  • Dirk Fleiter / Matthias Mellinghaus: Knowing is not enough. Hal Hartley and his films. Belleville., 2002. ISBN 3933510236
  • Matthias Mellinghaus: empiricism and imagination. Aesthetic and social concepts in Hal Hartley's TRUST. ( Thesis ) Potsdam -Babelsberg (HFF, FR Director ). In 1997.
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