Bastian Clevé

Bastian Clevé, born 1 January 1950 in Munich, is a German filmmaker and producer. He is Professor and Head of the Film Production-Department at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

Biography

Clevé grew up in Hamburg. After a two-year stint as sound-assistant at the TV-studios in Munich he studied Visual Communication in Hamburg at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (University of Fine Arts of Hamburg) where he continued filmmaking and started winning awards. In 1975/76 he was awarded a one-year scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD to study at the San Francisco Art Institute. He was touring with his experimental short films throughout the continent. After a brief return to Germany he relocated to Los Angeles in 1979 where he worked as a freelance writer, director and producer.

In 1991 he returned to Germany to become Professor and Head of the Department for “Film Production and the Business of Entertainment” at the newly established Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg, in charge of the training program and the curriculum for motion-picture- and TV-producers. Clevé wrote and edited more than two dozens books on filmmaking and film production. He is married with a daughter.

Work

Clevé started personal filmmaking in 1969 with short-films progressing into feature-lengths works. He sustained his efforts by winning awards and by touring and lecturing extensively throughout the world. Upon moving to Los Angeles he focused on the commercial side of filmmaking by picking up the craft of producing. He continued both his artistic and commercial filmmaking later on throughout his professorship in Germany.

His first DVD entitled Journeys contains Schau ins Land, Nachtwache, Lichtblick, Die Reise, Empor, Nach Bluff and Fatehpur Sikri.

Honors and awards (selection)

• Lichtblick BMI-Award 1976
• Empor German Film Award 1978
• Am Wegerand German Film Award 1979
• San Francisco Zephyr French Film-Critic’s Award, Hyères Filmfestival 78
• Der Deutschlandfahrer BMI-Shortfilm-Award 1978
• Exit Sunset Boulevard BMI-Screenplay-Award 1978
• Das blinde Glück BMI-Screenplay-Award 1985
• Sound of Eternity HD Fest DEFFY-Award 2006

Books (selection)

• 1989 The Art of Personal Filmmaking
• 1994 Film Production Management

Interview: Philipp Glass

• 1997 1.Akademiekreis Production Value

Development/Stoffentwicklung

Cashing In – Chancen und Risisken privater Filmfinanzierungsfonds

Wege zum Geld

Drehen in Deutschland – Shooting in Germany

• 1998 Investoren im Visier

Von der Idee zum Film

• 1999 Film Production Management
• 2005 Gib niemals auf – Filmökonomie in der Praxis