DIRECTIOR BIOS

Dieter Leitner is an Austrian filmmaker and photographer from Graz in Styria. He works in one of the media-departments of the Austrian army. Dieter is a member of the Austrian association of non-commercial film-authors and produces shorts for fun. His award-winning works have been screened at numerous regional, national and international film festivals.

Dave Lojek loves filmmaking and belongs to the most prolific and most often selected directors with over 2185 screenings of his distributions at international film festivals worldwide. His favorite genres are comedy, parody, fantasy, romance, poetry and experiment. Dave also directs documentaries, dramas, portraits, sci-fi, and music videos. His works and distributions won 260 film awards. Dave Lojek graduated with an MA in English / American and Cultural Studies from Humboldt-University in his hometown Berlin. In terms of content and style, Dave's poetic films are about magic, love, death, friendship, loneliness, artists, oddities,
escapism, mythology and the everyday. Based on the Homo-Ludens-principle, Dave clearly focuses his often-cheerful work on the universal and timeless. His motivation for filmmaking is intrinsic.

As independent producer, he created and distributed 185 movies in 26 cities in 12 European countries by 2026. Mr. Lojek hosts monthly open cinema screenings in Germany’s oldest cinema and annual film workshops called KinoKabarets with his initiative KinoBerlino. Dave works as film distributor and president of a Film Association. The productions of APEIRON FILMS and KinoBerlino have been broadcast weekly since 2008 (ca. 12.000 times) on German TV and viewed online over 2 million times.