BLACK RIDER

Pepe Danquart shot his first Super 8 films from 1968 to 1974. In 1977, he was the initiator and founding member of Medienverkstatt Freiburg (MVF), a video film collective that considered itself radically political. MVF produced over 30 documentary films and agitational art videos until 1991 (including "Paßt bloß auf" in 1980 and "Geisterfahrer – Eine utopische Kolportage" in 1985). Their works, in which Danquart participated as a writer, director, and producer, received numerous awards, including the German Film Critics' Award for complete artistic work in the documentary film category in 1987. Two years later, Pepe Danquart left the collective and shot his first short fiction film in Berlin, which was a huge success. He won an Oscar© for Best Short Film for "Schvarzfahrer" (Black Rider) in 1994. With "Nach Saison" (1994-1997), which received awards like the Peace Film Prize at the Berlinale, the Grand Prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and the Grand Prize at Valladolid, as well as the Pare Lorenz L.A. Award, Danquart solidified his reputation as an internationally significant director. Since then, he has been successfully working with Mirjam Quinte, Quinte filmproduktion. She produces and supervises all his documentary films from the idea to distribution. Danquart has been making fiction films for cinema since the 1990s, including "Daedalus" (1991), "Mörderinnen" (2001), "Semana Santa" (2002), and "C®ook" (2004), the German title for distribution being "Basta. Black Wine or Be Dead." Since 1995, he has been directing music videos, and since 2005, he has been shooting commercials, mostly with the production company BIGFISH. His first stage work, "Human Voices," premiered in 2006 at the Berlin Tipi and was successfully shown for months, reviving again in 2007. In February 2008, together with Suz Kuše, Andrea Roman, and Uwe Spiller, he founded the production company Bittersuess pictures GmbH with the aim of realizing feature films that "the audience will recommend to others." In 2008, Danquart was appointed as a film professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, where he teaches film theory, history, and practice in the Film department. Currently, Danquart is preparing the film adaptation of the cult novel "Rohstoff" by Jörg Fauser. The project is in the screenplay development phase. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the European Film Academy, and one of the founders of the German Film Academy, where he was also a board member from 2011 to 2017.