Holger Ernst


Holger Ernst / HOLGERSON is a German script writer and film maker based in Berlin. He also lives in New York City and Los Angeles.

Career

He graduated from the Department of Film at the Academy of Arts in Kassel, specializing in writing and directing. He directed several short films and commercials which screened at the Film Festivals of Venice, Cannes, Berlin, Montreal, Paris, Valladolid among many others over the past five years, including the much praised Kleine Fische. His critically acclaimed Rain Is Falling showed at the Film Festivals of Berlin and Venice. It won the renowned Max-Ophuels-Award of the Saarbruecken Film Festival, the UIP Valladolid, the BAFTA/LA Award for Excellence and was nominated for the European Filmprize.
His short/commercial FACES for Volkswagen earned him critical acclaim and prizes again among commercial- and film-festivals, winning the German Wirtschaftsfilmpreis, the Grand Prix in Bourges, in San Roque and the prestigious Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Prize 2008. Planned on this short is a feature-length visual essay now in preparation.
Holger Ernst / HOLGERSON was awarded for his scripts on feature film projects: Das Leben geht weiter, Familie–Demontage einer Seele, and Wir sind die Groessten.
His feature film The House is Burning, produced by acclaimed director Wim Wenders, Peter Schwarzkopff and Academy Award winner Alex Gibney premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and marks his debut as feature film director.

Filmography