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Jan Bonny
Born1979
Occupation(s)Film director and Screenplay writer
Years active2003 - present

Jan Bonny (born 1979 in Düsseldorf) is a German film director and screenwriter.

Life and work

Jan Bonny studied from 2000 to 2006 at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and finished his study with the screenplay for his award-winning feature film Counterparts (Gegenüber), which was nominated for the European Film Award and for the Caméra d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. In 2009 he participated in the Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam and the TorinoFilmLab[1] in Turin.

Furthermore Jan Bonny realized with advertising agencies like DDB Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi, Jung von Matt and Ogilvy & Mather a lot of commercials. Initially, the commercials were created in collaboration with the German film director and author Sonja Heiss under the alias Sonny & Bonny.

Bonny's feature film Germany. A Winter's Tale (Wintermärchen) celebrated its world premiere in 2018 at the Locarno Film Festival, where the film was nominated for the Golden Leopard.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2004: 2nd and A (short film), (screenplay, director)
  • 2007: Counterparts (Gegenüber), (screenplay and director)
  • 2013: Polizeiruf 110 - Der Tod macht Engel aus uns allen (TV series), (director)
  • 2018: Germany. A Winter's Tale (Wintermärchen), (screenplay and director)
  • 2019: Jupp, watt hamwer jemaht? (screenplay and director)
  • 2020: Tatort - Ich hab im Traum geweinet (TV series), director

Awards and nominations (selection)

References

  1. ^ Official website of the TorinoFilmLab with the list of participants from 2009
  2. ^ "Info about Gegenüber on the official website of german films". Archived from the original on 2016-09-25. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
  3. ^ list with nominations for the Grimme-Preis in the category Fiction on tittelbach.tv (German)