F I L M O G R A P H I E Pepe Danquart
From 1975-81 Pepe studied Media & Communication at Freiburg University and was a founding Member of Media Workshop Freiburg (MWF). He has completed about 30 films/videos as author/director in the filmcollective MWF and in 1978 he was awarded the National Documentary Award for the "entire output" of MWF. He became a member of the European Film Academy in 1994 and graduated from the European producers school EAVE in 1995. In 1994 he won an Academy Award (Oscar®) for the Live-action Short "Black Rider". In 2000 he won the National Film Award (Lola®) for Best Director for "Homegame". Beside his work as a director/writer, Pepe works as a teacher (directing films) at various film schools in Germany (dffb in Berlin, film academy in Ludwigsburg, ZFP) and as a dramaturgical advicer and producer for documentary films. He is creative partner of producer Mirjam Quinte (Quinte Film Production) and is a commissioning editor at the National Cultural Film Fund (BKM) in the Ministry of Culture of Germany.
2004/5 2004 2000/01 2000 1999/2000 1994-97 1995 1994/5 1993/4 1991/92 1989/90	C[R]OOK , feature HÖLLENFAHRT (RIDE THROUGH HELL) Docu-Drama about the Tour de France * German Film Critic's award for Best editor SEMANA SANTA, Thriller, Cinema, 95 min. with: Mira Sorvino, Olivier Martinez, Alida Valli, Feodor Atkin RELEASE, TV-drama (for ZDF and arte-TV), 90 min. * Double Nomination for German Television Award 2001 (Actress in a Leading Role) HOMEGAME doc., 35mm, 95 min. * National Cinema Award for Best Director * Nominated for Best Film (Deutscher Film Preis) * "Special Mention" at the European Film Awards 2000 * Opening Film of Toronto Hotdoc´s Int. Filmfestival a.o. OFF SEASON, Documentary shot in Bosnia, b/w, 35 mm, 125 min. * Peace-Film-Award of Berlin Filmfestival 97 * Nominated for the National Film Award (Best Film) * Best Film Minsk Filmfestival * 1st Prize Valladolid Int. Filmfestival, Spain * Golden Spire Award and Grand Prize of San Francisco IFF * German Camera Award (Michael Hammon BVK) for the visual work * Pare Lorentz Award Best Documentary 1998, L.A. (International Documentary Association) * Audience Award Prag Filmfestival OLD INDIANS NEVER DIE (doc) road movie for BBC, Discovery Channel, German TV, 60 min. PHOOLAN DEVI - REBELLION OF A FEMALE BANDIT (Co-director) doc, 16mm, 80 min. Festivals: Berlin Filmfestival 1994, Solothurn (Switzerland), Munich Documentary Festival, Cambridge, Helsinki, Galway Festival... a.o. BLACK RIDER Short Feature Film, 35mm, (Schwarzfahrer),12 min. Screened at more than 60 Filmfestivals all over the world (Berlin, Cannes, Sydney, Melbourne, Vancouver, Quebec, Stockholm, Huesca, Valladolid, Cairo, Sundance, Chicago, San Francisco, Taipeth, Sao Paulo, a.o.) * The Academy Award 1994 (Oscar®) for Best Short Film (live action) * "Golden Prize" Kairo IFF * "1st Prize" Toronto IFF * "Sheik Sensi Thin" Montreal IFF * "Espiga de Oro" Valladollid IFF * "Best Short" Berlin IFF * Audience Awards Hamburg, Munich and Augsburg Film Festival * 1st Prize Nordic IFF and more than 30 awards all over the world ... AND OTHER EMISSIONS Video (Collaboration with M. Quinte), 60 min. * Audience Award Videoforum Freiburg DAEDALUS docu-drama, 96 min. * 1st Prize Schwerin Film Festival * Jury Prize International Film Festival Puerta de la Cruz (Spain) * Special Prize Moscow Filmfestival, a.o.
From 1978 - 1988 more than 30 documentaries/docu-dramas/short films as author/director/producer of "Medienwerkstatt" Filmcollective (Freiburg)