Pepe danquart biography
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Biography
Pepe Danquart started shooting his first films on Super-8 back in 1968. In 1977 he became the initiator and co-founder of the Medienwerkstatt Freiburg (MWF Engl.: Media Workshop Freiburg). Between1978 and1991 Danquart worked on over 30 documentaries as author, director and/or producer. Among these initial projects classics such as Paßt bloß auf (1980) or Geisterfahrer – Eine utopische Kolportage (1985) emerged and won a host of awards, culminating in the 1987 Documentary Film Award of German Film Critics for the Medienwerkstatt’s overall output.
Two years later Pepe Danquart left the Freiburg collective for Berlin where he shot his first fictional short film Schwarzfahrer. Its success was overwhelming and in 1994 it received an Oscar© for Best Live Action Short Film.
Danquart’s follow-up movie Nach Saison(1994-1997) collected several awards including the Berlinale Peace Film Award, the Grand Prize at San Francisco Film Festival, Grand Prize Valladolid and the Pare Lorenzt Award, L.A. and so solidified the writer/director’s growing international renown.
At this time Danqaurt entered into a thriving collaboration with Mirjam Quinte (Quintefilm), who has since produced all of his documentaries, accompanying each project - from the initial idea to the final product -
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Pepe Danquart
Director – Berlin
Pepe received international recognition when he bagged an Oscar in 1994 for his short film “Schwarzfahrer”. Since then he hasn’t stopped filming and writing. Pepe has a big heart for underdogs and the socially outcast and has created many great documentaries, amongst them “Phoolan Devi – Rebellion of a Bandita”, about the most famous Indian female bandit and her uncompromising life, and a documentary triptych about prostitution in three third world countries. He also produced Michael Glawogger’s film “Workingman’s Death” about hard labour and the system of modern slavery.
His latest two films are “Joschka und Herr Fischer” which portrays the political career of former foreign minister Joschka Fischer, and his newest movie “Run Boy Run”, which will be completed this year and on general release for cinemas in January 2014. It tells the story of a boy who escapes the Warsaw Ghetto, subsequently spending years hiding in the woods to survive. The trailer alone is enough to move you to tears – highly emotional and beautifully filmed.
Which is the most important sense to you?
It’s the ability to see.
Why?
Because I am a film-maker. All I have to express myself with is light and shadow. I use images to express my art, and of course, it