Dietmar Post
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Dietmar Post (* December 26, 1962 in Germany) is a film director, producer and owner of a film and music label.
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[edit] Biography
Dietmar Post worked as an off set printer before studying Theatre and Film Studies and Spanish Language at Free University in Berlin and at Complutense University in Madrid. In 1995 he obtained his master's degree. Between 1995 – 2003 he lived and worked in New York. He attended film school at NYU, where he made his first short film, the award-winning Bowl of Oatmeal. His second short film Cloven Hoofed had its premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 1998. Post assisted renowned documentary filmmakers Thomas Schadt (Wall Street), Reiner Holzemer (Walker Evans) and Lutz Dammbeck (The Net). In 1997 he founded with his partner Lucia Palacios the production company play loud! productions, which since 2006 also functions as a film and music label.
In 2008 Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios received the prestigious Adolf-Grimme Award.
[edit] Filmography (as a director)
- 1996 - Bowl of Oatmeal (USA)
- 1998 - Cloven Hoofed (USA, Germany, Spain)
- 2002 - Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping (documentary film) (USA, Germany, Spain)
- 2006 - monks - the transatlantic feedback (USA, Germany, Spain)
- 2008 - Klangbad: Avant-garde in the Meadows (Germany, Spain) (in post production)
[edit] Film & Music Label
- 2006 - (single 7") higgle-dy piggle-dy / monk time - The Fall/Alec Empire
- 2006 - (double CD) silver monk time - a tribute to the monks (compilation)
- 2007 - (CD/LP) monks demo tapes 1965 (w/Munster Records)
[edit] External links
- Dietmar Post at IMDb
- play loud! productions Official Website
[edit] Awards
- 1996 - Philadelphia UFVA Film Festival (Best Short Film: Bowl of Oatmeal)
- 1998 - Berlin Interfilm Eject (3rd Audience Award: Bowl of Oatmeal)
- 2003 - Melbourne Underground Film Festival (2nd Best Documentary Film: Reverend Billy)
- 2004 - Tarragona REC Film Festival (Audience Award Best Opera Prima: Reverend Billy)
- 2006 - Leeds Film Festival (Audience Pick: The Transatlantic Feedback)
- 2006 - Hessian Film Award (Nominated for Best Documentary Film: The Transatlantic Feedback)
- 2007 - San Francisco Berlin & Beyond Festival (2nd Audience Award: The Transatlantic Feedback)
- 2007 - Würzburg Film Days (Audience Award Best Documentary Film: The Transatlantic Feedback)
- 2007 - Milan Doc Festival (Best Editing: The Transatlantic Feedback)
- 2008 - Adolf-Grimme Award (Best Script & Best Direction: The Transatlantic Feedback)
