Joakim Demmer | |
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Born | Joakim Demmer 11 October 1965 |
Nationality | Swedish |
Alma mater | Biskops-Arnö, Sweden Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin |
Occupation(s) | Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Editor, Television producer |
Years active | 1989–present |
Joakim Demmer (born 11 October 1965), is a Swedish filmmaker, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. [1] [ unreliable source? ] He is best known for directing the documentary films Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas. [2] [3]
Demmer was born on 11 October 1965 in Nybro, Stockholm, Sweden. [4]
He studied photography and documentary film from Biskops-Arnö, Sweden in 1989. Since then, he continued to work as a self-employed cameraman in Stockholm, Prague and London. [5] Later in 1991, he settled in Stockholm and continued to work as a television cameraman and editor. But in 1992, Demmer moved to Oslo with a new job in the television news section as a cameraman and editor at TV2 (currently known as SVT2). [1] Gradually, he became the co-director of the documentary department of the television. In 1995, he attended Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin to study filmmaking where he finally graduated in 2002. In the graduation year, he directed the film Tarifa Traffic about the refugees on the coast of Tarifa. The film was screened at many film festivals and adjudged with many awards. [4]
With that success, he directed the second documentary Anna Lindh und ihr Mörder. In 2006, he made his maiden television directorial with three episodes of the series Fremde Kinder. [1] Then in 2014, he wrote and directed the documentary Der Sonnenkönig der Massai. [4] In 2017, he directed the documentary Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas as a joint production with Ethiopia, Germany, Finland and Netherlands. [6] The film revolves around Farmland , the new green gold in Ethiopia where foreign investors use millions of hectares and dream of prosperity of the local people. The film received mixed reviews from critics and made official selection at many film festivals. [7] In the Munich International Documentary Festival (DOK.fest) 2017, the film was nominated for the Viktor Award for DOK.horizons and then for Environmental Award at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival. [8]
Year | Film | Role | Genre | Ref. |
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2003 | Tarifa Traffic: Death in the Straits of Gibraltar | Director, writer, Editor | Documentary | |
2004 | Ein Tag mit Folgen: Anna Lindh und ihr Mörder | Director | Documentary | |
2006 | Fremde Kinder | Director, Cinematographer | TV series documentary | |
2011 | Big Boys Gone Bananas! | Cinematographer | Documentary | |
2014 | Der Sonnenkönig der Massai | Director, Cinematographer, Writer, Producer | Documentary | |
2015 | Bikes vs Cars | Camera operator | Documentary | |
2016 | Im Land der Samen - Die letzten Rentiernomaden | Director, Cinematographer, Writer, Producer | Documentary | |
2017 | Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas | Director, Cinematographer, Writer | Documentary |
He has received several award for his critics acclaimed documentaries. [9]
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