Alexander Nanau

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Alexander Nanau
Born (1979-05-18) 18 May 1979 (age 43)
Bucharest, Romania
NationalityGerman, Romanian
Occupation Film director, film producer, screenwriter

Alexander Nanau (born 18 May 1979) is an Oscar-nominated German/Romanian film director, film producer and screenwriter.

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Biography

Alexander Nanau was born on 18 May 1979, in Bucharest, Romania. He has lived in Germany since 1990.

Nanau studied directing at the German Academy of Film and Television in Berlin (DFFB) [1] and was the holder of two scholarships, one at the Sundance Institute, [2] and another at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. [3]

Career

In 2007, he founded the Alexander Nanau Production production house in Romania. [4] His documentary, The World According to Ion B. , won the 2010 International Emmy Award in the "Arts Programming" category. [5]

His documentary Toto and His Sisters was nominated for the European Film Awards of the European Film Academy in 2015. [1] The latter was distributed internationally and shown at festivals around the world. Nanau was the cinematographer for the French-German documentary Nothingwood, filmed in Afghanistan, which premiered at Cannes in 2017 [6] [7] in the Directors' Fortnight section.

His documentary Collective won the Best Documentary category at the 2020 European Film Awards. It became the first Romanian film nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, as well as a nomination for Best Documentary. [8]

Filmography

YearFilmDirectorProducerCinematographerEditorNotes
2006Peter Zadek inszeniert Peer GyntYesYesYesYes
2009 The World According to Ion B. YesExecutiveYesNo
2014Toto and His SistersYesYesYesYes
2017NothingwoodNoNoYesNo
2019 Collective YesYesYesYes
2022KlarsfeldNoExecutiveNoNo

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References

  1. 1 2 "Filmvorführung und Diskussion - Dokumentarfilm "Colectiv"". Deutschlandfunk.
  2. "Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival |".
  3. "Stipendiatinnen / Stipendiaten 2006 - Junge Akademie der Künste". www.adk.de.
  4. "Documentarul "colectiv", regizat de Alexander Nanau, lansat în România". www.rri.ro (in Romanian).
  5. "Romanian documentary 'The World According to Ion B' gets Emmy Award". Romania Insider.
  6. "Nothingwood". 14 June 2017 via IMDb.
  7. "'Nothingwood' tribute to soaring happiness, crashing despair of Afghan director". France 24. 23 May 2017.
  8. "UPDATE/VIDEO "colectiv", de Alexander Nanau, a fost ales cel mai bun documentar la Premiile Academiei Europene de Film". www.agerpres.ro.