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Urban Genesis – official trailer
Urban Genesis
documentary feature, 96 minutes
Ethiopian farmers and a team of international architects have joined forces to tackle the problem of rural exodus. Deep in the African hinterlands, the unequal participants are building a small model town that could point the way out of the globally worsening migration crisis.
Director: Dodo Hunziker
Script: Dodo Hunziker, Yared Zeleke
Cinematographer: Frank Schwaiger, Pierre Reischer
Additional cinematography: Efrem Mekonnen
Editors: Anja Bombelli, Gisela Castronari-Jaensch
Composer: Ivo Ubezio
Sound Design: Peter von Siebenthal
Color Grading: Pierre Reischer
Production: Corinna Dästner, Urs Schnell
World Sales: Rushlake Media GmbH
Distribution Switzerland: Royal Film
THE BOMB – Trailer
Germany – 2019 – Colour – 21’ – directed by Dima Hamdan
director of photography: Frank Schwaiger
Synopsis:
Wasim and his mother haven’t been getting along for a while. When the police ask them to evacuate their home in Berlin for one night to excavate a World War II bomb that’s been discovered in the area, more feelings of anger and hurt come to the surface.
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TK – Onboarding
Corporate Film for Techniker Krankenkasse 2018
director: Oliver Frohnauer
DoP / Steadicam: Frank Schwaiger
Production Company: TVN
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VW – Trainer
Commercial 2019
Bubbles Filmproduktion
Directed by Johannes Östergård
DP: Max Smeds
Agency: Grabarz & Partner
Steadicam: Frank Schwaiger
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VW – Tiguan Offroad
Germany 2018
Director: Bastian Görgens
DoP: Frank Schwaiger
Agency: Grabarz & Partner
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Hilfetelefon – Aber jetzt rede ich
Regie: Gabriel B. Arranhio
DoP: Jannik Nolte
Steadicam OP: Frank Schwaiger
Produktion: Jo!Schmid
Producer: Johann Valentinitsch
Agentur: Scholz&Friends
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VW – Grand California
Germany 2018
Director: Bastian Görgens
DoP: Frank Schwaiger
Agency: Grabarz & Partner
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DLRG – Rettet die Bäder
Germany, 2018
Director: Oliver Frohnauer
DoP: Frank Schwaiger
Produktion: TVN
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Steadicam Reel 2017
Steadicam OP Frank Schwaiger (bvk)
Berlin – Hamburg – worldwide
Some of my Steadicam work of the recent years! Have fun.
I am a Hamburg and Berlin based DoP and Steadicam Operator.
Camera movement is not only a craft but an art. It needs a lot of experience to make the right decisions at the right time synched to the scene and according to the emotions of the characters.
Every single job I am working my butt off to get there. 20+ years of experience help me with it.
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Forgotten Army – Die vergessene Armee
2017, documentary feature, 88 min
director: Signe Astrup
producers: Signe Astrup, Costanza Julia Bani, Fabian Diering
production company: Sineast
dop: Frank Schwaiger (bvk)
When the Berlin Wall crumbled down in 1989 and six months later East and West Germany united, more than 250.000 highly skilled East German soldiers lost their jobs, their homeland and everything they believed in.
Stasi officers, border guards, and police agents social image plummeted from “model citizens” to criminal perpetrators blamed for their part in Germany’s dark 20th century history.
More than 25 years later filmmaker Signe Astrup meets some of those former GDR soldiers who today find themselves living on the edge of society. Some cling to the their old beliefs and vows of loyalty to the GDR where their identity and future were clear and life had meaning.
Als am 9. November 1989 die Berliner Mauer fiel, wurde auch die Nationale Volksarmee (NVA) der DDR mit einen Schlag überflüssig. Sie hatte als Machtinstrument der Sozialistischen Einheitspartei (SED) ausgedient. Im Zuge der offiziellen Auflösung der NVA ein knappes Jahr später wurden nur knapp 11.000 Soldaten längerfristig in die Bundeswehr übernommen; hunderttausende ehemalige DDR-Streitkräfte standen hingegen plötzlich auf der Straße. Seit über 25 Jahren sind sie nun Bürger der Bundesrepublik. Doch sind sie auch alle Teil unserer Gesellschaft geworden? Und wie gehen sie mit der eigenen Vergangenheit um?