Dave Lojek

Berlin, Germany

Dave Lojek loves filmmaking and belongs to the most prolific and most often selected directors / producers with over 1623 screenings 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 211 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, 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. He calls his motivation for filming intrinsic.

As independent producer-director, he created 178 movies in 26 cities in 12 European countries by 2020. Mr. Lojek hosts monthly open cinema screenings in Germany’s oldest cinema Moviemento 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. 10.000 times) on German TV and viewed online over 2 million times.

Dave can be contacted via his fanpage on facebook. He also hosts a screenplay contest for doable shorts. A more detailed biography is featured on his homepage.

Selected Filmography of Dave Lojek

2021: FUCHS & PINGUIN

2020: OCCURRENCES OF QUESTIONABLE SIGNIFICANCE

2018: I CAME FROM THE FUTURE • SNITCH • THE LAST SUPPER • KEEPER

2017: ARACHNE • ALEX AND SASHA (as producer)

2016: SAMA SŁODYCZ • DAS SPRICHWÖRTLICHE GLÜCK | PROVERBIAL LUCK • REFUGEE POETRY

2015: fruwająca FORTUNA • KINSKISCHRAUBE

2014: THE PRINCESS STRIKES BACK • FILM KITCHEN

2013: HEK TICK TACK • PSYCHIC SUE • PARADISE BEACH • FOCUS POCUS

2012: TWO TOO ODD • MADEMOISELLE NIMSI • SICK CITY

2011: TRUST • BELIEVE • METEORITES

2010: DER MIETER | THE TENNANT • PERSPECTIVE • MARIES STIMME • FLUSSAUFWÄRTS | UPSTREAM