Stephan Ottenbruch
- Producer
- Editor
Stephan Ottenbruch, CEO & Co-Owner of Life Entertainment, Berlin, commissioned and produced more than 30 feature films (most of them for TV) and several series, such as the award-winning The Pact and Girls From Russia or comedy features like Return Ticket To Love and Tasted Man, before he moved on to the production of media events like The Dream Of Zanzibar and the production of feature films, TV movies and series with Life Entertainment.
With The Dream Of Zanzibar he claimed German comedian Oliver Pocher to be head of the Zanzibar National Football Team. After having produced films like Pretty Man and Hunting for Love or TV series like Kookaburra he is moving the development of films like Save our Souls, The Internetstar and A Piece of Fortune or series like The Healing Men and Go for Gold.
In 1999 Stephan Ottenbruch founded the initiative Sat.1 Talents for the network Sat.1 which turned out to be one of the most well known & recognized initiatives in Germany to train young talents bringing up awards like First Steps & workshops like Actors & Talent Class.
In 2011 he build up the IndoGerman Initiative with MAMI (Mumbai Academy of Moving Images) & set up the IndoGerman Script Development Workshop to gather some of the best screen writers, directors and producers from India and Germany to train young writers & to work on cultural exchange & Indo-German collaboration. The first workshops took place before the Mumbai Film Festival & the Berlin International Film Festival.
In October 2012 Lena Vurma received the first IndoGerman Screenwriting Award in a Mumbai Ceremony with Shyam Benegal (Chairman MAMI) and Marla Stukenberg (MD GI Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai). In February 2013 Stephan Ottenbruch started the first IndoGerman Filmweek having Film Screenings, Discussions, Workshops and an International Content Summit on stake. After the success of the filmweek he started in April an IndoGerman Filmdinner, offering Film Screenings every first Saturday of each month followed by an typical Indian Dinner and a Q&A with the filmmaker via Skype. The IndoGerman Initiative is growing continuously and the next steps will be a weekly edition of Indian Film Screenings at IndoGerman Filmdinner, a Summer Edition of IndoGerman Filmweek, a Mumbai Masterclass in Screenwriting in October 2015 and an IndoGerman Filmweek in beginning of February 2016 (5.02. to 10.02.2016).