
Stefan Arndt - Film producer & cinema operator
Stefan Arndt was born in Munich in 1961. Together with directors Wolfgang Becker, Dani Levy and Tom Tykwer, the producer founded the production company X Filme Creative Pool in 1994, which he now runs together with Uwe Schott. Major audience and critical successes such as Tykwer's LOLA RENNT, Levy's ALLES AUF ZUCKER and Becker's GOOD BYE, LENIN! paved the way for international co-productions under German leadership, such as the multiple award-winning Michael Haneke productions DAS WEISSE BAND and AMOUR or Tom Tykwer and Lana & Andy Wachowski's CLOUD ATLAS, the most expensive independently financed European film of all time.
This was followed in 2000 by the founding of X Verleih AG, of which Stefan Arndt has been a shareholder and board member ever since. Arndt was also a board member of film20 (an association of German production companies with a 70% market share) from 2001 to 2008, a board member of the Alliance of German Producers Film & Television from 2008 and a founding member and chairman of the board of the German Film Academy from 2003 to 2009. Since 2013, Stefan Arndt has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which, among other things, decides on the annual awarding of the Oscars®. Stefan Arndt has also run the Zeise Kinos (Hamburg) and Thalia (Potsdam) cinemas since 1984.
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