Robert Kummer is an experienced film editor and film maker, based in Berlin. His work style is strongly affected by long lasting – and still ongoing – collaborations with artists and directors such as Ralf Schmerberg, Herbert Grönemeyer and Christoph Schlingensief.

Robert’s unique work is characterized by his sense for striking details and situations and bringing them together in authentic cinematographic stories.

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„My love for pictures inspires my every action.“

 

Robert Kummer is an experienced film editor and film maker, based in Berlin. His work style is strongly affected by long lasting – and still ongoing – collaborations with artists and directors such as Ralf Schmerberg, Herbert Grönemeyer and Christoph Schlingensief. Robert’s unique work is characterized by his sense for striking details and situations and bringing them together in authentic cinematographic stories. Robert started doing photography with 14 and straight after school he began working in a filmcompany and editig movies. Until now he has worked on over 250 movies.

 

 

 

Awards & Festivals

 

2012

Competition – MashRome Film Festival, Rome with Irgendwo in Berlin

Opening movie at Stockholm International Film Festival – Junior, Bronze

Horse for Best Film Weil ich schöner bin

 

2011

Planet in Focus film-festival in Toronto with Fairy Kings – If Trees

Could Talk

Lucern International Film Festival, Best Documentary for PROBLEMA – Who are we in the 21st century?

 

2010

German Film Award Winner „Best Short“ Manolo

 

2008

Cinema for Peace award, most valuable documentary, Trouble – Teatime in Heiligendamm

Shanghai International Film Festival: World Premiere Little Paris

IPTV Award, most innovative project for They call us Candy Girls – first season

 

2007

ADC Award, silver for campaign Dropping Knowledge – Ask yourself

ADC Award, silver for conference Dropping Knowledge / Table of free Voices

Bronze Epica Awards for commercial Glenn Fiddich /Every Year Counts

Möbius Award – Second Place Certification for Outstanding Creativity

for commercial Glenn Fiddich / Every Year Counts

Art Directors Club Germany, silver in the category Viral Commercial for
dropping knowledge

Eurobest, Silver for Glenn Fiddich / Every Year Counts

INDEX: Award, Top nominee in the category Community: dropping knowledge

Shots.net, Germany’s Top 10 of the Year for the campaign ask yourself / dropping knowledge

Méliès d‘Argent Award 2007 best european shortfilm in Sitges ESP Die Grosse Werkstatt – The Big Garage / written by TC. Boyle

 

2005

Berlinale, World premiere Stadt als Beute

Cine Independiente, Buenos Aires, filmfestival Kolkata 2006, Stadt als Beute

Lobende Erwähnung – Internationaler Verband der Filmkunsttheater („Confédération Internationale des Cinémas D´Art et Essai“) Stadt als Beute

 

2003

Hofer Filmtage 2003, Freakstars 3000

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2004, Freakstars 3000

 

 

Education

 

2007

Supervising film students, FH Salzburg, film project G8 “We are watching you!”

1999 – 2002

Selected classes in film studies, politics, history, american studies at Freie Universität / Humboldt Universität, Berlin

1998 – 2001

Seminars attended by Dr. Charlie Möller Nass: Strategies for cinematographic storytelling (Drehbuchwerkstatt Rhein / Ruhr)

1995

Tutor for print journalists, becoming TV journalists in the fields of post productions

1994

Scholarship for excursion to Philadelphia, USA, Germany, Poland „3. Generation after Shoa“

1993 – 1996

Film Studies at University of Film and Television “Konrad Wolf” Potsdam-Babelsberg