Dave Lojek

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Dave Lojek

Berlin, Germany

Dave Lojek loves filmmaking. A lot. He belongs to the prolific and most often selected directors / producers of the 21st century with over 2053 premiere screenings at international film festivals celebrated 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 254 film awards. Dave Lojek graduated with an excellent MA degree in English / American and Cultural Studies from the legendary Humboldt-University in his hometown Berlin.

In terms of content, Dave's poetic films encapsulate magic realism, love, death, friendship, loneliness, artists, oddities, escapism, mythology and the everyday. Based on the Homo-Ludens-principle, Dave clearly focuses his often-cheerful and flimsy work on the universal and timeless. He calls his motivation for filming intrinsic.

As independent producer-director, he created and distributed 181 movies in 26 cities in 12 European countries by 2025. 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. 12.000 times) on German TV and viewed online over 2 million times.

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

From 2018 to 2024 Lojek directed and produced screenplays by Script Revolution member John Alexander Fraser, namely the black widow miniature KEEPER in Finland, the chalk-phobic youth film CALXOPHOBIA also in Helsinki. OSMOSIS was our sci-fi project from Dublin in 2023. Furthermore John wrote an Easter ritual experiment EGGspression for Dave in 2023 and an ambitious cinema drama about a lost pet TRACES OF GRIEF in Berlin. In 2024 John provided a magical transmogrification screenplay called JULIENNE OF LIGHT BULBS for Dave.

In 2023 Dave produced and directed the conspiracy short UMBRA OF DECEIT, written by Script Revolution member Anthony Straeger, an author who had already provided screenplays to Mr. Lojek for the 2018 Polish sci-fi time travel suicidal drama I CAME FROM THE FUTURE, the Ukrainian-German corpse-finding parody Тайна вечеря - The Last Supper, and the French-Hungarian informant sneering dialogue SNITCH.

Selected Filmography of Dave Lojek (ca. 23% of his total oevre)

2024: TRACES OF GRIEF • JULIENNE OF LIGHT BULBS • BESIEGED ARTISTS' OASIS

2023: EGGspression • OSMOSIS • UMBRA OF DECEIT

2022: CALXOPHOBIA

2021: FUCHS & PINGUIN

2020: OCCURRENCES OF QUESTIONABLE SIGNIFICANCE

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

2017: ARACHNE

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