Jascha Hannover is a documentary filmmaker based in Cologne and Berlin. Documentaries he directed or collaborated on as a creative producer were shown at festivals including Locarno, Raindance and Filmfest Munich, and have been sold to broadcasters worldwide. He was nominated for the CIVIS Media Award and is a recipient of the ARD-Programmprämie. In 2019, he was a participant of Documentary Campus Masterschool.

Writer, Director and Creative Producer at Florianfilm GmbH 

Bachelor: Film studies and philosophy at Johannes Gutenberg Untiversität, Mainz

As Creative Producer: Closing film at Locarno Film Festival with ALLES ÜBER MARTIN SUTER. AUSSER DIE WAHRHEIT (Director: André Schäfer)

Winner of the ARD-Programmprämie for THE WIKIPEDIA PROMISE

Nominated for the CIVIS Media Award with REFUGEES IN THEIR OWN WORDS

As Creative Producer: Audience award at Filmfest Munich for TRANS – I GOT LIFE (Directors: Imogen Kimmel and Doris Metz)

Winner Best Documentary at Melech Film Festial (Israel) and Winner Award of Excellence at IndieFest La Jolla with HOLLYWOOD'S II WORLD WAR

Alumnus Documentary Campus Masterschool with THE BOOKS HE DIDN'T BURN

As Creative Producer: Nomination for Deutscher Dokumentarfilmpreis (Category „Music“) for YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE (Director: André Schäfer)

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Jascha Hannover is a director and creative producer for documentary films based in Cologne and Berlin.

“There are three golden rules to filmmaking: thou shalt not bore, thou shalt not bore, and thou shalt not bore!” Director Billy Wilder was as a legend in his lifetime and embodies a period of contemporary history. He was successful beyond measure, and became very rich as a result – but he never sold out. In exclusive, newly-filmed interviews companions and contemporaries of Billy Wilder, such as Volker Schlöndorff, Marthe Keller und Paul Diamond the portrays a person who above all was never boring.

Never Be Boring, Billy Wilder

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