Daewit

Daewit

David Jansen

Fabian Driehorst

Germany

Awards and Honors
27 Filmfest Dresden 2015: Grand Prix Animation (national)
27 Filmfest Dresden 2015: ARTE Film Price
9 River Film Festival, Padua 2015: First Prize Animation

65 Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival
39 HKIFF - Hong Kong International Film Festival
8 Flatpack Film Festival Birmingham
42 Athens International Film Festival, Ohio
10 Ecu - European Independent Film Festival
4 Animocje, Bydgoszcz - Animated Film Festival
27 Filmfest Dresden
18 Cartoons on the Bay, Venice
1 Animaze MIAFF Int. Animation Film Festival
6 Vafi Int. Children Youth Animation Film Festival
4 KISFF - Kyiv International Short Film Festival
61 Oberhausen Short Film Festival
22 Stuttgart Int’l Animation Festival
17 Future Film Festival, Bologna
25 Filmkunstfest Schwerin
15 Int. Short Film Festival Cine a la Calle, Barranquilla
14 RIFF - Rome Independent Film Festival
9 River Film Festival
13 FIKE International Short Film Festival
31 IKFF Hamburg International Short Film Festival
11 MIAF - Melbourne International Animation Festival
31 Cartoon Club, Rimini
3 Insomnia Festival - Contest of Dreams
5 Supertoon International Animation Festival, Sibenik
29 IMFF - Image Forum Festival
12 Animation Block Party
9 Film and Art Festival Two Riversides, Janowiec
19 RIIFF - Rhode Island International Film Festival
3 La Guarimba International Film Festival, Amantea
14 DokuFest Film Festival, Prizren
16 Lucania Film Festival, Pisticci
7 Shortynale, Klosterneuburg
11 Holly Shorts Film Festival
19 Thai Short Film and Video Festival, Bangkok
39 Filmfest Weiterstadt Open Air
3 Okseø Filmfestival, Flensburg
5 International Animation Festival Nikozi, Gori
10 Int. Festival of Contemporary Animation Linoleum
9 Expotoons Buenos Aires
9 Animanima - International Animation Festival
12 DC Short Film Festival, Washington
12 JDIFF - Jameson Cinefest Miskolc Film Festival
33 New Jersey Film Festival (Fall Edition)
22 Oldenburg International Film Festival
21 AIFF - Athens International Film Festival
13 flEXiff - Experimental International Film Festival
8 Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival
20 2ANNAS - Riga International Film Festival
12 NiFF - Naoussa International Film Festival
5 Ars Independent Festival, Katowice
8 AnimaSyros
5 Catalina Film Festival

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Production Company: Fabian&Fred
Funding: Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
Director: David Jansen
Producer: Fabian Driehorst
Script Writer: David Jansen, Sophie Biesenbach
Animator: David Jansen, Sophie Biesenbach
Music & Sound: Marcus Zilz
Editor: Sophie Biesenbach

A wolf child, an angel, a cat. The film animated in the tradition of wood cut technique, tells the story of an abandoned child, who grows up with wolfs after his mother rescued him from his violent father. After an enigmatic journey full of privations and in quest for identity he finds his peace in forgiveness.

David Jansen (* January 7th 1981 in Wipperfuerth, Germany) became a mechanic for plastic and caoutchouc technologies after school. Afterwards he did an internship at Columbia Tristar in script development followed by work for Sony Pictures. At time of Sony Pictures he did his first own short films. From 2006-2012 he studied animation at Academy for Media Arts, Cologne in the film class of Raimund Krumme and Stéphanie Beaugrand.

FILMOGRAPHY
Daewit (2015), Animation 15min

Produced in university:
The Animal That Can Lie (2012) Animation 13min
9,6% (2011) Opening Film for Ernst Schneider Film Price
Duck, The (2010) Animation 1min
I Don’t Care (2010) Animation 5min
Beelzebub (2009) Animation 10min
Airwave Stories (2008) Animation 2min
The Living Desert (2008) Animation 2min
Work Sucks (2007) Animation 5min
Perpetual (2006) Animation 2min
I’m Animal (2006) Experimental Film 6min
Error (2006) Experimental Film 10min