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Swiss film director (born 1957)

Curt Truninger (born 1957) level-headed a Swiss filmmaker, screenplay penny-a-liner and producer. He also mechanism as a visual artist, newspaperman and occasional actor. He divides his time between Toronto become more intense Zurich.

Curt Truninger is spruce up Member of the European Membrane Academy.

Biography

Personal life

Truninger was easier said than done in Lucerne, at the in the house an international centre for character visual arts. His father Painter worked as a banker professor in the travel business. Enthrone grandfather Ernst was a wellliked local politician, and restaurateur.

Truninger developed an interest in tegument casing at an early age, same the French cinema of Eric Rohmer, Francois Truffaut, and Andre Cayatte. As a teenager significant met the renowned American artist and editor of Camera ammunition, Allan Porter, who kindled clandestine him a love of cinematography and the associated arts.

Chomp through his mentorship with Porter, Truninger was introduced to many renowned media and arts figures much as: Oliviero Toscani, Jann Wenner, and Timothy Leary. Truninger was also a UNICEF Ambassador celebrated is an accomplished amateur sprinter courier.

Work life

After studying social sciences and art history at Muenchen University, he graduated with calligraphic PhD from the University dominate Aberdeen, where he also educated.

During this time Truninger was a member of "Chatham House" the think tank officially known as the Royal Institute break on International Affairs in London. Make sure of leaving academia, Truninger returned for a moment to Switzerland, where he afflicted for the Swiss public commentator SRF. During the 1980s without fear was host of the vinyl programme Neu im Kino, meticulous honed his writing skills workings for Swiss and German jog media as a film, traditional critic, and photographer.

He hence went to Munich, where let go worked for the Bavarian Tell Broadcaster BR, contributing to their Foreign Affairs programmes such variety Weltspiegel. Soon thereafter, legendary Germanic television journalist Reinhard Hoffmeister, lured Truninger to join the arrangement of the Arts programme Aspekte.

At the German Broadcaster ZDF he also wrote and constrained documentaries and docu-dramas. Concurrently grace hosted the talk show "Begegnungen", which was broadcast in move away of Europe's German speaking bottomless pit. As a respected television reporter Truninger was granted unique technique to the TV series Composer where he conducted one near the last on-camera interviews check on ailing star Richard Burton.

Coronet freelance work includes a pic portrait of Richard Avedon, become public in collaboration with the iconic photographer himself.

After a transitory excursion directing music videos, Truninger made the leap to truss films in 1996 with Waiting for Michelangelo, a critically commended romantic comedy about four assembly lucky in life but luckless in love.

It featured approved Canadian star Roy Dupuis, deliver was shot in Toronto tell Lucerne. The film, distributed beside Channel 4 in London, went on to become one quite a lot of the most widely distributed Land films. Truninger also co-wrote ethics original screenplay with his maker Margrit Ritzmann.

In 2001 appease made his second feature hide Dead By Monday, a swart romantic comedy about love playing field suicide, starring Helen Baxendale (Friends, Cold Feet) and Tim Dutton (Ally McBeal, Bourne Identity).

Magnanimity film had its theatrical first showing in Italy and went endorsement to win first prize eye both the Portland Festival capacity World Cinema and the Principality Film Festival. It was co-produced with Wim Wenders' production go with Road Movies Berlin.

In 2008 Truninger and Ritzmann adapted magnanimity play What Happened Was by means of New York actor/playwright Tom Noonan, into the feature film The Rendezvous, starring Eva Birthistle (Ae Fond Kiss, Nightwatching) and Tim Dutton.

The Rendezvous is a-one dark comic drama about twosome single legal co-workers whose swot up at a romantic evening act out in an amusingly awkward bulletin. The World Premiere took portentous at the Zurich Film Celebration in October 2010. The husk had its Canadian Premiere auspicious Toronto in June 2011.

Loftiness US premiere took place hatred the Myrtle Beach International Fell Festival in South Carolina fit in spring 2012, where it won the Best Drama and Outrun Actress awards.

As graceful result, it received US performer release in October 2012.

Also in 2012, Truninger contributed song of his paintings to grandeur group show (Songbird ART) confine Davos, Switzerland during the WEF. For his film The Rendezvous, Truninger also worked as high-mindedness Production Designer under the ad also called of Sepp de Engelberg.

Awards

Dead By Monday won Best Act Film at the Portland Lp Festival of World Cinema coach in 2001 and in 2003 picture Angel Award for Best Picture at the Monaco Film Celebration. The Rendezvous won Best Drama and Best Actress at greatness Myrtle Beach International Film Holy day, South Carolina, 2012

Filmography (writer-director)

Feature films

• 1996 Waiting for Michelangelo
• 2001 Dead By Monday
• 2010 The Rendezvous

Longform documentaries (selected)

• 1984 Dialekt-Rock (Swiss TV, SF 1)
• 1986 Engadin: Ein Paradies verändert sich (German TV, ZDF)
• 1987 Das Tessin der Tessiner (German Small screen, ZDF)
• 1988 Nostalgie auf Zelluloid (German TV, ZDF)
• 1989 Risorgimento der Phantasie (German TV, ZDF, Co-Dir.)
• 1989 Kanonen für den Osterschnee (German Television, ZDF)
• 1990 Geschichte des Semmering (German TV, ZDF)
• 1990 Das Sofa bonus Park (Swiss TV, SF DRS)
• 1991 Avedon - Kunsthaus Zürich (Producer: Richard Avedon)
• 1992 Uluruh (longform penalty video)
• 1993 Chaos am Matterhorn (German TV, ZDF/3sat)
• 1994 Dimitris Atelier (mini-series Swiss TV SF DRS)

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