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Holger Ernst / HOLGERSON (born 1972) is a German script writer and film maker based in Berlin. He also lives in New York City and Los Angeles.

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He graduated from the Department of Film at the Academy of Arts in Kassel, specializing in writing and directing. He directed several short films and commercials which screened at the Film Festivals of Venice, Cannes, Berlin, Montreal, Paris, Valladolid among many others over the past five years, including the much praised Kleine Fische (Little Fish). His critically acclaimed Rain Is Falling showed at the Film Festivals of Berlin and Venice (over 200 Festivals since its premiere, winning more than 40 Awards). It won the renowned Max-Ophuels-Award of the Saarbruecken Film Festival, the UIP Valladolid, the BAFTA/LA Award for Excellence and was nominated for the European Filmprize.

His short/commercial FACES [:phases] for Volkswagen earned him critical acclaim and prizes again among commercial- and film-festivals, winning the German Wirtschaftsfilmpreis, the Grand Prix in Bourges, in San Roque and the prestigious Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Prize 2008. Planned on this short is a feature-length visual essay now in preparation.

Holger Ernst / HOLGERSON was awarded for his scripts on feature film projects: Das Leben geht weiter (Life Goes On), Familie–Demontage einer Seele (How to kill a soul), and Wir sind die Groessten.

His feature film The House is Burning [1] (starring John Diehl and Academy Award winner Melissa Leo), produced by acclaimed director Wim Wenders, Peter Schwarzkopff (Reverse Angle International) and Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side) premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival [2] and marks his debut as feature film director.

Filmography

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References

  1. "Reverse Angle".
  2. "Festival de Cannes: The House is Burning". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-12-18.