Jury of the 19th International
Film Camera Festival "Manaki Brothers" - Bitola
Ovaa godina `irito raboti vo sostav:
 left to right: Langer, Bruus, Astakov |
- Morten BRUUS, DFF - DENMARK, President
- Sergei ASTAKHOV - RUSSIA, Member - Martin LANGER - GERMANY, Member |
Morten BRUUS, DFF - DENMARK, President
Morten BRUUS, born in 1948 in Copenhagen, is one of the leading Danish directors of photography of today. As a teenager he started to shoot with his father's 16mm camera. After his graduation he was employed at Laterna Film, a Company which produced quality films and by then was kind of a school for young directors and photographers. Working as a cameraman for 10 years he advanced as a director of photography in 1980, shooting as D.O.P. his first film CIRCUS CASABLANCA by the director Eric Clausen with whom Bruus cooperated most, which resulted in 6 feature films.
Mr. Bruus has participated in the main competition as D.O.P. in 1996 at the 17th International Film Camera Festival "Manaki Brothers" in Bitola with the film ALL THINGS FAIR by the leading Swedish director Bo WIDERBERG. He also shot more than 50 documentaries.
FILMOGRAPHY:
6 feature films with the director Eric CLAUSEN:
CIRCUS CASABLANCA, 1980; FELIX, 1981; ROCKING SILVER, 1983; THE
MAN IN THE MOON, 1986;
RAMI AND JULIET, 1988; TARZAN MAMA MIA, 1990;
CHRISTIAN (Dir. Gabriel AXEL, 1990)
BUSINESS (Dir. Britta WIELOPOLSKA, 1989)
ALL THINGS FAIR (Dir. Bo WIDERBERG, 1995)
DEAD SKIN (Dir. Rhea LEMAN, 1997)
THE MAJOR (Dir. Ole ROOS, 1998)
Sergei ASTAKHOV - RUSSIA, Member
He was born on November 8th, 1953, in a village in Central Russia. His father was a cinema operator, his mother was a teacher of literature. He decided to become a cameraman in the 8th grade. Since 1971 until 1973 he served in the Army, after that he has been working as a photographer. In 1975 he entered the State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) on the department of Cinema operators. In 1980 he graduated from the VGIK and began to work at the LENFILM STUDIO, where has worked for ten years.
He shot 22 feature films and more than 30 documentaries. Astakhov with his film CRIME OF THE WOLF (directed by Kevin Sima) was declared by the British Academy of Cinema and Tele Arts (BAFTA) as the best D.O.P. of England.
FILMOGRAPHY:
1997 - BROTHER (BRAT) directed by Alexei BALABANOV, for which Astakhov was
awarded with the "Golden Camera 300" at last year's 18th International Film
Camera Festival "Manaki Brothers" in Bitola.
1997 - CUNNING SOURCE, directed by N. LEBEDEV
1997 - IN THAT SIDE, directed by A. BOBROVA
1998 - OF FREAKS AND MEN, directed by Alexei BALABANOV (participated at this
year's Cannes Film Festival in the program of DIRECTOR's FORTNIGHT / QUINZANE DES
REALIZATEURS.
Martin LANGER - GERMANY, Member
I was born in Hanover on January 8th, 1959 and grew up on the countryside. After school I decided to work for the state as a civil servant. But it didn't take long and the job bored me to death. So, I decided to change my profession and wanted to become that guy, who's behind the moving pictures of my favorite movies which I have always admired on the big screen. Interested in still photography, but not having the slightest idea, what a director of photography is doing, I moved to Munich, in those days the German capitol of filmmaking. I contacted people working in the filmbiz. Luckily I got a job.
I worked my way through as a propman, boomoperator, electrician, grip and second-first camera-assistant. One day my D.o.P., I was his focus-puller, was asked to shoot a low budget highschool film. He refused, but he recommended me to this student. . . The director and me became friends, the shortlenght film won some prizes (AAN, Academy Award Nomination: Best Student Film). Since 1990 I started to become a director of photography and we are still working together. For me a dream came true: working in a profession, which I really love.
As a D.O.P. Martin Langer has collaborated with director such are: Martin Enlen, Roland Suso Richter, Sigi Rothemund, Niko Karo, Caroline Link, Nico Hoffman, Detlev Buck, Rainer Kaufmann, Sherry Horman, Michael Verhoeven, Roman Kuhn, Tom Glaser, Wim Wenders (2nd camera).
MARTIN Langer has been also awarded with EASTMAN PRIZE in 1990 and 1991 and with "Gold Awards NY Film Festival" for the film DAYDREAM 1992 (Dir. Niko Karo).
FILMOGRAPHY:
ALLES AUSSER MORD (Cinema, Roland Suso Richter, Nomination: "Deutscher
Kamerapreis"), SOMMERTAGE (Cinema, Dir. Caroline Link)
DER ELEFANT VERGIST NIE (Cinema, Dir. Detlev Buck from the film series EROTIC
TALES screened at last year's Film Camera Festival in Bitola), GREENHORN (Cinema,
Dir. Reiner Kaufmann), ROULA (Cinema, Dir. Martin Enlen)
14 TAGE LEBENSLANGLICH / 14 DAYS LIFETIME (Cinema, Dir. Roland Suso Richter,
National Award for best German D.O.P. in 1997; Best Cinematography at the Festival
MADRIDIMAGEN '97)
SARA AMERIKA (Cinema, Dir. Roland Suso Richter), AFTER THE TRUTH
(Cinema, Dire. Roland Suso Richter).
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