Biography
Robert Sigl film director
The youngest director ever to receive Bavaria’s Best New Director Award, given to him in 1989, for his first feature-length film "LAURIN", which even today enjoys a cult-like following. Since then he has collected vast international experience and directed several acclaimed productions, such as "LEXX", "HEPZIBAH", "STELLA STELLARIS", "SCHOOL'S OUT 1 & 2" a.o., in Canada, France, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic. Some of his works, like LEXX, have sold world-wide into more than 100 territories, from New Zealand to South Africa. He has received numerous development funding grants for his projects and screenplays from several European countries and he has worked for U.S. networks Showtime and SciFi Channel with stars like Malcolm McDowell and Eleanor Tomlinson (female lead in the Bryan-Singer-blockbuster "JACK THE GIANT SLAYER"). Three-time Oscar winning composer, Howard Shore, is going to provide the soundtrack for Sigl’s upcoming 14-Million-Euro-production, "THE SPIDER." Casting director will be John Hubbard, Malcolm McDowell and Michael Brando are going to be among the leads. Further to the Bavarian Film Award Robert Sigl was also nominated for the Max Ophüls Award and just recently for the German Director's Award Metropolis 2012.
EDUCATION:
Directing at University of Television and Film (HFF) Munich, Germany 1981-1986
Screen Writing at Drehbuchwerkstatt München, Munich, Germany 1989-1990
AWARDS:
Bavarian Film Award 1989 for Best Direction of a Newcomer
Nominated for Max-Ophüls-Award 1989
Nominated for the German Director Award Metropolis 2012
LANGUAGES:
Fluent English, German & conversational French
DEVELOPMENT FUNDINGS: for the projects: THE SPIDER, THE 13th DISCIPLE, MEDUSA,
LAZARUS, WURDILAK and Dan Simmons’ CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT by MEDIA, FFFBAYERN, FFA
info@robert-sigl.de
www.robert-sigl.de
Represented by:
Blake Friedmann Literary, TV and Film Agency
Agent: Conrad Williams
122 Arlington Road London NW17HP UK
+44(0)2072840408
info@blakefriedmann.co.uk
MAIN CREDITS:
HEPZIBAH aka: THE VILLAGE (2010)
Director Feature Film English Language UFA FILM
VIENNA CRIME SQUAD / SOKO DONAU (2008-2011)
Director TV Series 11 episodes SATEL FILM
TATORT / SCENE OF THE CRIME – AVENGING ANGEL (2005)
Director TV Movie TELEFILM SAAR
TATORT / SCENE OF THE CRIME – TARGET (2001)
Director TV Movie TELEFILM SAAR
THE INVESTIGATOR (2002 – 2005)
Director TV Series 2 episodes MONACO FILM
THE ISLAND OF FEAR (2000)
Director Movie REAL FILM
SCHOOL’S OUT (1999)
Director Feature Film REAL FILM US-Distribution: Fangoria/MTI
LEXX – THE SERIES (1999)
Director TV Series SALTER STREET FILMS for SCI-FI CHANNEL USA
GHOSTHUNTER JOHN SINCLAIR (1998)
Director TV Series ENDEMOL
ALARM FOR COBRA 11 (1997)
Director TV Series POLYPHON
LEXX-THE DARK ZONE: 4.0. GIGA SHADOW (1996)
Director TV Movie English Language
SALTER STREET FILMS FOR SHOWTIME USA STARRING: MALCOLM MCDOWELL
GROSSE FREIHEIT (1995)
Director TV Series MULTIMEDIA
STELLA STELLARIS (1994)
Director Mini Series BAVARIA FILM
LAURIN (1989)
Feature Film English Language
BAVARIAN FILM AWARD FOR BEST NEWCOMING DIRECTOR
Writer/Director & Co-Producer SALINAS FILM
THE CHRISTMAS TREE (1983) Short Film
Writer/Director & Co-Producer HFF Munich
THE CABIN (1982) Short Film
Writer/Director & Co-Producer HFF Munich
07. 06. 2020
Robert Sigl's LAURIN in France - by prestige label "Le Chat qui fume"LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 COPIES.
TECHNICAL:
• 1 BLURAY - 1 DVD
• BLURAY: English in DTS 2.0
• DVD: English in Dolby Digital 2.0
• Subtitles: French
• Zone All
SUMMARY : March 1901, in a German port village, Laurin, aged twelve, hears the cry for help, at nightfall, of a little boy whom she sees, from her window, being kidnapped by an adult. During the same night, Flora, Laurin's mother, sees on a bridge the inert body of the little boy and the face of his assassin; we find her dead in the morning, her body lying at the bottom of the bridge. With the father of Laurin, a sailor, being often absent, the little girl, plagued by strange visions, is now entrusted to her grandmother. She soon befriends a classmate, Stefan, who in turn disappears. A killer of children prowls around, and Laurin's curiosity puts her in great danger ...
ABOUT THE FILM :For his first feature film, Robert Sigl produced a true masterpiece, a fantastic tale whose atmosphere evokes the stories of Perrault or the Grimm brothers. Benefiting from a sublime photograph, Laurin summons through his images certain great masters of painting, from John Constable to Caspar Friedrich, via Brueghel. Without resorting to special effects, the director favors the atmosphere and the mystery, with this nature seeming to conceal dangers and secrets, and this village under the influence of traditions and religion. Thirty years after its release, Laurin remains a unique, timeless and wonderful work.
07. 06. 2020
von Rüdiger Suchsland
https://out-takes.de/2020/gedanken-in-der-pandemie-14-abstand-und-anstand/
