Dave Lojekborn 1975
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Director
Popularity
2.1
Famous
Biography
Dave Lojek loves filmmaking. He belongs to the prolific and most often selected directors of the 21st century with over 2049 premiere screenings of his distributions at international film festivals worldwide. His favorite genres are comedy, parody, fantasy, romance, poetry, sci-fi and experiment. Dave also directs documentaries, dramas, portraits, and music videos. His works and distributions won 253 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 encapsulate 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. He calls his motivation intrinsic. As independent producer, he created 181 movies in 26 cities in 12 European countries by 2025. 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. 11.982 times) on German TV and viewed online over 2 million times.
Credits
2024
Comedy • Fantasy • Romance
Director, Editor, Producer, Props, Art Direction
2021
Comedy • Documentary • Family • Romance
Director of Photography, Set Photographer, Prop Maker, Location Scout, Producer, Director, Colorist, Camera Operator, Editor, Production Manager
2020
Comedy • Fantasy • Music • Romance
Director, Writer, Art Direction, Editor, Colorist, Producer, Sound Designer
2016
Music • Romance
Director of Photography, Editor, Director, Camera Operator, Set Photographer, Writer, Producer
2016
Adventure • Documentary • Drama • War
Producer, Director, Camera Operator, Editor, Director of Photography, Screenplay, Colorist
2014
Action • Comedy
Director, Camera Operator, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor
