Sebastian Strasser
Sebastian Strasser ( born November 6, 1967 in Sibiu ( Hermannstadt), Romania ) is a German film director. Strasser has received for his directing in advertising more than 60 international awards, including eight Lion at Cannes, the Grand Prix at New York FES, multiple gold and silver at London IAA, D & AD, Eurobest Festival, One Show, Clio Awards, Montreux and numerous Art Directors Club awards. In 2010 he was awarded the D & AD award for best director in France in 2010, a year later, at the VDW Award, the award for best director in Germany 2011. He already ranked in 2005 as the only German in the Gunn Report ranking of "Most Awarded Directors in the World " among the top 20 ( 13th) of the world's top advertising directors.
Life
Sebastian Strasser's parents and grandparents were theater actor. From the age of six he has worked as an actor in theater productions and feature films. His high school he put at the German School in Bucharest - the German Goethe Kolleg - from. From 1993 he studied sports journalism in Cologne and then ( from 1995) Film and Television at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. At the same time he was already working in the TV area as an editor and writer for the political format " commercial television " (formerly TCE ) in the ARD with Friedrich Küpper bush.
Since 2000 he is a freelance director for commercials. He is currently represented by Radical Media in the U.S. and in Germany, of Stink in England and Wanda in France. In 2005 his first short film Happy End with Matthias Schweighofer and Katarina shaker was shown in the section Perspective German Cinema at the Berlinale 2005. In preparation for his first feature film "What's Posisi? " And an American series is. Sebastian Strasser is married, has two children and lives in Berlin.