Filmpunkt GmbH
Thomas Riedelsheimer
und Stefan Tolz
Goltsteinstr. 28-30
50968 Köln
0221 800 471 32
info(at)filmpunkt.com
Thomas Riedelsheimer (*1963) studied at the Academy for Film and Television in Munich (1984-1991); since 1986 free-lance author, director and cameraman in Germany and abroad (Somalia, Tanzania, South Africa, New Zealand, Latvia, Russia, Tibet, Nepal, Japan, Canada, Scotland, India, Georgia, etc.); lecturer at seminars on cinematography and documentary film making; camera work with 16mm, S16mm and 35mm, as well as with all video formats. Since 2001 founder and partner in Filmquadrat, a Munich-based film production platform, with Stefan Tolz and Thomas Wartmann. In 2008 Thomas Riedelsheimer founded his company Filmquadrat.art to concentrate on films about art. Since
October 2007 he is teaching regularly at Filmakademie Ludwigsburg.
Thomas Riedelsheimer lives in Munich, is married and has two children. He has several major 
national and international film and television awards for directing as well as for editing and camerawork and several nominations for the official section of international festivals.
e-mail thomas(at)filmpunkt.com
Selection of films (directing, camera, editing)
D 2009, 90min, col., DVCProHD, Prod: Filmpunkt GmbH with WDR, BKM, FFA
Scottland 2008, 30min, col., DVCProHD, Regie, Kamera, Schnitt, Prod: Skyline für die BBC Scotland,
Touch the Sound – A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie
D 2004, 97min, col., S16mm, Prod.: Filmquadrat and Skyline with BR, ARTE, YLE, FFF, FFA, BKM, NW Filmbüro, Scottish Screen
Kritkerpreis Locarno, BAFTA Scotland Award, Hauptpreis Leipzig, Nom. Europ. Dokumentarfilmpreis, Deutscher Filmpreis
Beyond the Horizon – Timbuktu and the Delta of the Niger
D 2003, 2 x 42 min, col., Digi Beta; Prod.: Filmquadrat for BR
Rivers and Tides – Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time
D 2001, 90 min, col., S16mm; Prod.: Mediopolis and Skyline for ARTE, YLE, FFF, Filmbord, Scottish Screen
Deutscher Kamerapreis 2001, 2 x Deutscher Filmpreis, Preis der deutschen Filmkritik, 2 US Kritikerpreise, San Francisco Hauptpreis, Monteal Art Film Hauptpreis
Metamorphoses - Three encounters with Death
D 1997/98, 45 and 93 min, col., Digi Beta 16:9, ZDF and 3 Sat, Filmförderpreis München, Nom. Deutscher Kamerapreis
Lhasa and the Spirit of Tibet Sites of World Culture
D 1996/97, 60 min, col., Digi Beta 16:9, Regie and Kamera for BR
„Floating means Love“ Three people outside the norm
D 1994, 80min, col., 16mm, ARTE, ZDF "Das kleine Fernsehspiel", 3Sat
Government on Air - The Staging of the World Economic Summit in Munich 1992
D 1992, 63min, s/w, 16mmzusammen mit M. Beger u. M. Schwerbrock, ZDF, 3Sat, Nom. Grimme Preis 1993
Sponsae Christi - The Brides of Christ Live of three young nuns in the Cisterciennian order
D 1991/92, 68min, col., 16mm, ZDF "Das kl. Fernsehspiel", 3Sat, ARTE, BRT, DRS, Grimme Preis mit Gold 1993
"You will shoot then...“ Three months of basic training in the German Army
D 1988/89, 60min, col., SP Highband, ZDF " Das kleine Fernsehspiel", 3 Sat, Nominierung Grimme Preis 1991
Camera (selection)
5 Stücke (5 pieces) by Johannes Brunner and Raimund Ritz 1992, 14min, Deutscher Videokunstpreis
Die gesteigerte Fahrt (the eccelerated ride) by Johannes Brunner and Raimund Ritz, 1995, 4 min, Prädikat „Besonders Wertvoll“
Memoiren einer frustrierten Hedonistin, (memoires of a frustrated Hedonist) by Claas Danielsen, 1995, 66min, diverse Festivalpreise
Oktoberfest, by Johannes Brunner, Spielfilm, 2005, 120min
Camera and Editing (selection)
On the Edge of Time, by Stefan Tolz, 2001, 90min, diverse Festivalpreise, Grimme Preis Nominierung
Between the Lines - India´s third gender, by Thomas Wartmann, 2005, 95min, Filmfest Locarno
nationale und internationale Auszeichnungen
festivals (selection)
Locarno, Berlinale, San Francisco, Toronto, Ghent, Rotterdam, Hongkong, Sydney, Cork, Edinburgh, New York Tribeca, New York Brooklyn, Vancouver, Montreal New Films, Montreal Art Films, Palm Springs, Mexico, Thessaloniki, Leipzig, Graz, Viennale, Göteborg, Magnificent Seven Beograd, Hongkong