Christoph Thoke

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Christoph Thoke (born November 15, 1960) is a German film and television producer.

Thoke has primarily worked as on-air promotion producer for german broadcaster RTL 2 and german-french broadcaster arte. Since 1996, he has been part of management at production and service company Taunusfilm and CineMedia, where he started as assistant to general manager and later became executive for production and acquisition.

At Taunusfilm, he oversaw all international production activities including the LA office of Taunusfilm International while at Cinemedia he was involved in acquisition of films such as What Women Want starring Mel Gibson.

Christoph's producing credits at that time included: critically acclaimed and Foreign Film Language Oscar selected Little Senegal (2001), Lubov and other Nightmares, Sundance 2002, Official Selection as well as Planet B, The Antman and Planet B, Detective Lovelorn, both Berlin 2002, Official Selection, Perspective of German Cinema.

In 2003, Christoph joined forces with Axel Moebius to produce through their own company Thoke + Moebius Film (TMF). At TMF Christoph has been able to produce or coproduce a slate of nine titles such as Tropical Malady from Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a major arthouse sensation which got Jury Price in Cannes 2004 (jury presidency: Quentin Tarantino) and was regarded as best film of the year 2004 by Cahiers du Cinema.

Other titles at TMF include Bruno Dumont’s Twentynine Palms (film), Venice 2003, Official Competition, Buffalo Boy, official entry from Vietnam for Best Foreign Language Film category at the 78th Academy Awards and Wedding Chest, official entry from Kyrgyzstan for Best Foreign Language Film category at the 79th Academy Awards.

In total, TMF’s films have been officially selected for more than 330 festivals and garnered more than 70 awards around the globe.

Only recently Christoph Thoke founded new production outfit Mogador Film, from where he is going to produce for the local and international market.

[edit] Tutoring, Panels and Consultancy

Since 2005 Christoph has been involved in different aspects of media training to name f.e.: Panelist at the Rotterdam Lab with Jani Thilgtes, Rotterdam International Film Festival 2005, Panelist on “International Producers in Europe” with Karl Baumgartner and Marco Müller, eDit 8. Filmmaker’s Festival, Frankfurt 2005, Member of the Pedagogic Staff and Production Tutor, MedaFilmsDevelopment, Marrakech 2006, www.mfd.ma [1], Project Consultant for Babylon Feature Film Project Development Workshop, Rotterdam 2007, and Cannes 2007, www.babylon-film.eu [2] and Moderator for Producers Network, Cannes Film Festival 2007.