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Sebastian Marka (born 1978 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a German film director and editor.

Sebastian Marka
Sebastian Marka, 2021
Born1978 (age 43–44)
Genf, Switzerland
OccupationFilm director and editor
Years active2001–present

Life and work


Sebastian Marka was born in Geneva in 1978 and grew up in Königsbach-Stein near Karlsruhe. After completing his Zivildienst (alternative civilian service), Marka began studying at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in 2001 and graduated in 2005 with a degree in Film & Media.[1]

While still being a student, Marka began working as a film editor. He edited commercials, short- and feature films. After graduating, he continued his editing work and was responsible for editing several Television productions such as Unschuldig or 100 Code, an internationally co-produced Swedish crime drama series.

In 2010 Marka's short film - thriller Interview[2] was released, for which he received many awards at German and international film festivals.

Due to the success of his short film Interview he received his first directing assignments. After directing five episodes of the German TV series Notruf Hafenkante, Marka subsequently shot ten 90-minute episodes of the popular German police crime drama series Tatort since 2013, three of which he edited himself. The released Tatort-episodes were almost all praised by the German press and received good IMDb ratings. For example, the German film critic Rainer Tittelbach wrote in October 2018, that Marka had created "exceptional crime films" (Ausnahmekrimis).[3] Spiegel Online - critic Christian Buß also wrote in a 2018 Tatort - review, that Marka had "repeatedly artfully widened the format of the series with cinematic 'Tatort-episodes' such as the Berlin episode 'Meta' or the 'Se7en' variation" for the Frankfurt Tatort edition (hat mit cineastischen "Tatorten" wie der Berliner Folge "Meta" oder der "Se7en"-Variation [...] immer wieder kunstvoll das Format der Reihe geweitet).[4] In addition, some of the Tatort - episodes won national and international awards. For example, the episode Long Live Death celebrated its international premiere at the Austin Film Festival in 2016. And Marka won an audience award for it at the Nashville Film Festival in 2017 and received a jury award at the Garden State Film Festival in 2017. For the Tatort-episode Die Wahrheit Marka and screenwriter Erol Yesilkaya were nominated for the prestigious Grimme Award in 2017. They received the Grimme Award in 2019 for their Tatort-episode Meta.

The award-winning three Tatort-episodes and four other episodes were created in collaboration with Erol Yesilkaya. He wrote the screenplays for all seven episodes. Marka had met Yesilkaya in 2012 and worked together nine times so far. In an interview with the German trade magazine Blickpunkt:Film, Marka compares their cooperation to the "showrunner - principle". During the process of making a film, from idea development to film editing, Yesilkaya and Marka would be in constant exchange of information to achieve a good result.[5]

On October 20, 2020, Marka's dystopian TV - Science fiction film Exit was broadcast on the nationwide German television channel Das Erste. Yesilkaya again wrote the screenplay for the film, which is set in the year 2047 and addresses the dimension and impact of artificial intelligence and digital life. The German film critic Arno Frank of Spiegel Online said, that a "perfectly formed dystopia like "Exit" [...] has not yet been seen on public television" in Germany. (Eine formvollendete Dystopie wie "Exit" [...] hat man bei den Öffentlich-Rechtlichen noch nicht gesehen.)[6]

It was announced in the press on February 2, 2021, that Marka and Yesilkaya are to film the German fantasy novel - bestseller The Gryphon (Der Greif, 1989) by Wolfgang Hohlbein as a series for Amazon Prime Video.[7] The Gryphon is scheduled for release in 2023.[8]


Filmography (selection)



Director



Editor



Awards and nominations


Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre (Argentina) 2010

Indie Fest (USA) 2010

Oaxaca FilmFest (Mexico) 2010

Celluloid Screams: Sheffield Horror Film Festival (England) 2011

FEC Festival (European Short Film Festival) (Spain) 2011

Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis (Germany) 2011

Oldenburg International Film Festival (Germany) 2011

Seattle International Film Festival (USA) 2011

Miami Short Film Festival (USA) 2012

Newport Beach Film Festival (USA) 2012

Pentedattilo Film Festival (Italy) 2012

Festival des deutschen Films (Germany) 2016

Garden State Film Festival 2017

Grimme-Preis 2017

Nashville Film Festival 2017

Grimme-Preis 2019


References


  1. Profile of Sebastian Marka at his agency Above The Line. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  2. Info about the short film Interview (2010) and short bio about Sebastian Marka on the ARD-website (in German). Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  3. Tittelbach, Rainer (October 21, 2018). "Reihe "Tatort – KI"". tittelbach.tv (in German). Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  4. Buß, Christian (October 19, 2018). "Wer glaubt noch an die ungehackte Empfängnis? - "Tatort" über künstliche Intelligenz". Spiegel Online (in German). Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  5. Heine, Frank (October 28, 2020). "Yesilkaya/Marka: Nach dem Showrunner-Prinzip". Blickpunkt:Film (in German). Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  6. Frank, Arno (October 28, 2020). "Monopol auf die Realität - Sci-Fi-Drama in der ARD". Spiegel Online (in German). Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  7. Kanter, Jake (February 2, 2021). "Amazon Doubles Down On German Originals; Orders Series Based On Wolfgang Hohlbein's 'The Gryphon' From 'Dark' Producer W&B Television". Deadline. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  8. Krei, Alexander (November 9, 2021). "Dreharbeiten gestartet: "Der Greif" kommt 2023 zu Amazon - Hohlbein-Roman wird zur Serie". DWDL.de (in German). Retrieved December 30, 2021.




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