Dave Lojek loves filmmaking and belongs to the most prolific and most often selected directors / producers with over 1760 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 224 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 and distributed 178 movies in 26 cities in 12 European countries by 2022. 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 (ca. 22% of his total oevre)
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
2009: KIT & SUKA • MUSE • SERENDIPITY • INDECISION
2008: ROFL • ANGELS • PHOBIEN
2007: PROJEKTION • EVERMORE • FUTILITY • PELT PEOPLE
2006: PARLANDO
2005: DYSFUNCTION
1998-2000: SELBST UND FREMDBILDER IN DER WERBUNG Teil 1-3