Jochen Alexander Freydank

Jochen Alexander Freydank is a German film director.[1][2] Freydank directed feature films, TV movies, commercials, stage plays and won various awards including an Academy Award for his movie Toyland in 2009.

Jochen Alexander Freydank was born in 1967 in East Berlin. He started his career in the 90s as an editor and assistant director for television and film productions. Freydank is also known as a screenwriter for series and TV movies and worked as a producer. He produced one of Germany's most successful TV series. In 1999 he founded his film production company Mephisto Film.

His first short film was the macabre comedy HAPPY END, followed by the short film EMERGENCY. In 2002, Jochen Freydank wrote and directed DUTY, which had its world premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival. Freydank then directed, co-wrote and produced the short film Toyland, which won more than 30 international awards. In February, 2009 TOYLAND won The Oscar for best live-action short film.

Freydank's directorial credits include feature films and TV movies among them HOMEFRONT, ALLMÄCHTIG, Tatort, and the tragicomedy UND WEG BIST DU that won the best directors award at Bayerischer Fernsehpreis. 2010 Freydank directed the stage play JOHNNY CHICAGO at Berliner Volksbühne. In 2013/2014 he realized the feature film KAFKA'S THE BURROW based on a novel by Franz Kafka, which he wrote, directed and produced.[3][4] The movie had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival [5] and its European premiere at the Warsaw International Film Festival. 2014 he wrote and directed GROSSE FISCHE - KLEINE FISCHE,[6][7] followed by three prime time movies for German TV in 2015: DER WILDE SVEN, the thriller ZORN - WIE SIE TÖTEN [8] and ENGELMACHER a police crime drama. In 2016 he directed the TV-movies DÜNNES EIS and TRUGSPUR. He then directed two German TV movies in Barcelona, Spain: ÜBER WASSER HALTEN, TOD AUS DER TIEFE [9] and in 2017 a thriller based on the best selling novel DAS JOSHUA PROFIL by Sebastian Fitzek. [10]

Freydank is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,[11]