Benjamin Geissler
writer,
director, director of photography, editor and producer
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Languages:
German, Italian, English
“My philosophy is to create truthful intelligent High-Quality-Products, for
which the target audience on the international market is growing: mass audiences as well as better educated viewers, younger and older people.”
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Bio- / Filmography
Born 1964 in
Ohrbeck, Germany. Presently lives in Hamburg.
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2003
– 2006
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Messina
– feature
film screenplay on a original idea by Benjamin Geissler
Filmförderung
Hamburg.
Selected
for the Co-production Forum at the European Cinema & Audiovisual
Days, Turin 2007. |
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2010
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EFM,
Berlin
– selected
for the EU-MEDIA Stand.
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2009
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Lost Pictures ∞ Lost
Memory?
– Interdisciplinary Series of Events:
idea and realisation: Benjamin Geissler
Lectures / Music: Anarchy in the UKR:
with Juri Andruchowytsch, Ljubko Deresch
& Serhij Zhadan - Sobaki v Kosmosi
Conferences: The INCANTATION OF THE CIRCE, Giordano Bruno
THE mafia PSYche, with
Prof. Girolamo Lo Verso
Film:
Lost Pictures ∞ Lost Memory?
Haute cuisine: culinary art
with the Sicilian master chef Corrado Assenza
Flyer
Interdisciplinary Series of Events (PDF)
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2008
- 2009
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Lost Pictures ∞ Lost Memory?
– Psycho-Thriller
Screenplay
, Direction, Camera, Editing, Effects: Benjamin Geissler Filmförderung
Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (Postproduction) Festivals,
Special Screenings and Awards: World
Premiere: Filmfest Hamburg 2009
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2009
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EFM,
Berlin
– selected
for the EU-MEDIA Stand.
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2008
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EFM,
Berlin
– selected
for the EU-MEDIA Stand.
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2007
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Lost
Pictures – Lost Memory? – material preservation
Filmförderung
Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein /
Zeit-Stiftung.
Screenplay
, Direction, Camera: Benjamin Geissler
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2007
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World
Forum on Strategy and Finance for Cinema 2nd
edition,
Rome IFF
EFM,
Berlin
– selected
for the EU-MEDIA Stand.
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2007
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The
Kouros,
original Idea by Jürgen Vollmer – Treatment, feature length
fiction for cinema by Jürgen Vollmer and Benjamin Geissler
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2006
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World Forum on Strategy and Finance for Cinema 1st edition, Rome IFF
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2006
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Aira
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feature film treatment on a original idea by Benjamin Geissler
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2006
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Production
of the new web-side of
the Benjamin
Geissler Filmproduktion.
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From
2003
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the
Benjamin Geissler
Filmproduktion
enlarged their activities, including the development and production of feature
length fiction and documentary projects for co-productions
for the European and International market, as well as Service.
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1999
– 2002
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Finding
Pictures,
documentary 107' Min., 35mm
Filmförderung
Hamburg, kulturelle Filmförderung des Bundes (BKM),
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, kulturelle Filmförderung
Mecklenburg – Vorpommern in Co-Operation with arte / mdr
Screenplay
, Direction, Camera, Editing, Effects.
Festivals,
Special Screenings and Awards: World
Premiere: New York, Center for Jewish History, USA 19.11.2002 •
poposed for
DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS 2003 •
Montreal Jewish Film Festival, CA 2003 • Opening Film - Int.
Cracow
Film Festival, PL 2003 • Semaine de la Critique - Locarno Film
Festival, CH 2003 • AFO GRAND PRIX 2003 - AFO Int.
Film
Festival, CZ 2003 • Special Event -Leipzig, Int.
Dok-Film Festival,
D 2003 • Special Event - MOLODIST
Kyiv Int.
Film Festival, UA 2003 • Uniwersytet Maria Curie-Skłdowska,
Lublin, PL 2003 • Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 2003 • Beth
Tzedec Synagogue, Toronto, CA 2003 • Academy of Arts, Berlin, 2003 •
32nd Belgrade Int. Film Festival FEST, YU 2004 • PHOENIX AWARD -
Warsaw Int. Jewish
Film Festival, PL 2004 • Filmkunstfest Schwerin, D 2004 • 9. Int.
Literature Festival Leukerbad, CH 2004 • AUDIENCE AWARD - Festival „Der
neue Heimatfilm” Freistadt, A 2004 • Jewish Eye World Jewish Film
Festival, Tel Aviv, IL 2004 • Part of the Bruno Schulz Exposition at
the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, F 10/2004 - 1/2005
• Month of the Arts “Polish-Jewish
writers and double identity”
- Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies, Stockholm,
S 2005 • Bruno Schulz Festival, Dublin, IE 2008 •
River Film Fest - The World of Josef K., Pisek, CZ 2009.
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1997
– 1999
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Time
Warp,
documentary 96'30" Min. , 35mm
ZDF
/ Filmförderung Hamburg / Niedersächsische Filmförderung:
Idea,
Direction, Camera, Editing.
Festivals
and
Awards:
Int. Dok-Film Festival Leipzig, D 1999 •
Max
Ophüls Preis, Perspektiven des deutschsprachigen Films, Saarbrücken, D
2000 •
Tage
des unabhängigen Films, Osnabrück, D 2000 •
Inventur
7 - Filmschau Niedersachsen, Hannover, D 2000 •
Int.
Dok-Film Festival, München, D 2000 •
Int.
Cracow
Film Festival,
PL 2000 •
SaarLorLux
Film- und Videofestival, Saarbrücken, D 2000 •
poposed for
DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS 2000 •
Festival
- Der neue Heimatfilm, Freistadt, A 2000 •
4th
Int. Etnic
TV Festival AT HOME, Kraków, PL, 2000 •
The
Int. Festival of Documentaries on Regions. Zabrze, PL 2000 •
AWARD
of the Festival Director (Slovakian Filminstitute,
Bratislava) - XI. Etnofilm Festival, Čadca,
SK 2000 •
Nominated
for PRIX EUROPA - IRIS, Multicultural Television Programme of the Year
2000
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1994
– 1995
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Vincenzo
Floridia,
or the last rose of Noto,
documentary 69'30" Min. , Beta SP
RAITRE
/ Niedersächsische Filmförderung:
Idea,
Direction, Camera, Editing.
Festivals:
Tage des unabhängigen Films, Osnabrück, D 1996 •
Inventur
3 - Filmschau Niedersachsen, Göttingen, D 1996 •
Festival
– Der neue Heimatfilm, Freistadt, A 1996
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1994
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funded
the own production company, Benjamin
Geissler Filmproduktion
specializing in long-term research projects. |
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1997
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German
Dialoguebook
of "Gran Bollito" by Mauro Bolognini
Original-Screenplay:
Nicola Badalucco. |
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1991
– 1997
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Editorial
Position in
the dubbing of 140 feature films for films as: "Broadway
Bound" by Neil Simon, "Simple Men" by Hal
Hartley, "Bad Lieutenant" by Abel Ferrara, "¡Dispara!"
by Carlos Saura, "Le vie del signore sono finite" by
Massimo Troisi, "Puerto Escondido" by Gabriele
Salvatores, "Il segreto del bosco vecchio" by Ermanno
Olmi, as other 25 Italian titles.
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1993
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Schiff
der Völker a
report for NDR:
Conception, direction.
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1989
– 1990
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Bussmanns
in the Wood,
documentary 90' Min., 16mm (long-term
observation)
ZDF:
Idea,
Direction, Editing.
Festivals,
Special Screenings:
Osnabrück, Tage des unabhängigen Films 1990,
COMUNE
DI BOLOGNA, Assessorato
alla Cultura -
Cineteca
- Commissione
Cinema 1993. |
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1989
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2nd
Assistant director for Karl Fruchtmann "trotzdem", RB.
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1986
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working
journey in Italy.
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1978
– 1985
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own
lumberjack company
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