Michael Pakleppa

Date of Birth: 21 September 1950

Mini Biography:

Born 1950 in Heidelberg, Germany. Since 1970 TV movies, feature films, shorts, documentaries, specials, worked on various theatrical feature films as co-director, editor, trailer and dubbing director in Germany, England, USA and Africa. MICHAEL PAKLEPPA Born 1950 in Heidelberg, Germany. Since 1970 TV movies (children films, shorts, documentaries, specials), worked since 1972 on various theatrical feature films as co-director, editor, trailer and dubbing director in Germany, England and Africa. 29 years of experience in editing, camera, production, directing and special effects. BACKGROUND Pakleppa has started working in New GermanCinema in 1972, co-operating in the creative center of author’s cinema Filmverlag der Autoren with directors like R.W. Fassbinder, Werner Herzog or Wim Wenders. In the 80′s he developed a European network of co-operation in production and distribution through which he was distributing and/or co-producing major works of the New British and American Cinema including some films of John Carpenter, Neil Jordan, Monty Python, the animation hits “When The Wind Blows”, “The Last Unicorn” (German version) and Valhalla and independent German films. He is currently working on four new projects as a producer: “The Last Unicorn”, “Lila The Werewolf”, “Charley Herring” – all written by fantasy novelist Peter S. Beagle and the bizarre love story “Unusual Requests”. On all four projects for 2000 and 2001 he is co-operating with ‘Ray Cooper’ former creative head of George Harrison’s HandMade Films and co-operator of Terry Gilliam, Bob Dylan and Elton John, and Joe Dreier, former treasurer of UIP as producer. As a director he is preparing currently two of his projects: “The Last Unicorn” and “Unusual Requests”.

Trivia:

39 years of experience in editing, camera, production, directing and special effects.
Son Gabriel Pakleppa, 32, works as a film and music producer in Munich, Germany and heads Continent Film GmbH.
First wife Fabienne Pakleppa is a novelist and award-winning writer of novels, short stories and biographies in Munich/Germany, she writes occasionally for Süddeutsche Zeitung, Cosmopolitan and other publications.
Worked with Neil Innes (Monty Python, The Rutles, Scottish-English comedian, musician and writer) on “The Barkers” and the new “Rutles” Album. Develops European feature films and TV programs with Ray Cooper, former head of HandMade Films and percussionist, close friend of the late George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Elton John (Grammy Award for his film “Concert For George”).
As a documentary director he portrayed the psychic healers Tom Johanson and Yolanda Betegh and the psychic artist Coral Polge and produced a 2 h special about modern and ancient Tibetan culture, rituals and spiritual basics of Tibetan Buddhism and the Dalai Lama.
His son Gabriel Pakleppa, 32, is working as a film and music producer in Munich, Germany.
First wife Fabienne Pakleppa is a novelist and award-winning writer of novels, short stories and biographies in Munich/Germany, she writes occasionally for Süddeutsche Zeitung, Cosmopolitan and other publications.
He has also worked as a film critique, film editor, press and publicity director, screenwriter and art director in Germany and created in the ’70s a unique series of art house cinemas with an inventive programming.

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