Marco Kreuzpaintner started his career with critically acclaimed feature films like the coming-out coming-of-age drama SUMMER STORM, KRABAT, THE COLLINI CASE and the Roland Emmerich-produced TRADE – WELCOME TO AMERICA starring Academy Award winner Kevin Kline. He created and directed the Amazon Prime crime show BEAT based in the underground club world of Berlin and now lives and works in London. He was last helming and executive producing TV shows like THE LAZARUS PROJECT, SOULMATES and the upcoming Netflix / DC Comics series BODIES. He’s married to screenwriter Owen Petty.

Boo! Pictures Ltd. loans out "Marco Kreuzpaintner" directing and executive producing to international Feature Films and high-end TV-series.
 

awards
 

2020 Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival, Best Feature, "Der Fall Collini"

​

2020 Haugesund Filmfestival, Publikumspreis, "Der Fall Collini"

​

2020 Cinema For Peace, Award for Justice, "Der Fall Collini"

​

2020 Berlin & Beyond Film Festival, Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature Gala, "Der Fall Collini"

​

2019 Grimme Preis, "Beat"

​

2018 Deutscher Krimipreis, Nominierung, "Sanft schläft der Tod"

​

2017 Grimme Preis, Nominierung, "Polizeiruf 110 - Und vergib uns unsere Schuld"

​

2007 Cinema for Peace, Special Award, "Trade - Willkommen in Amerika"

​

2007 Bernhard Wicki-Friedenspreis des deutschen Films, "Trade - Willkommen in Amerika"

​

2007 Bayerischer Filmpreis, Bester Kinder- und Jugendfilm, "Krabat"

​

2005 New Faces Award, Bester Nachwuchsregisseur, " Sommersturm"

​

2004 Filmfest München, Publikumspreis, "Sommersturm"

​

2003 Max-Ophüls-Preis, Bester Film, "Ganz und Gar"

​

2001 First Step Award, Nominierung, "Der Atemkünstler"
 

 

filmography

2022 BODIES
TV Series, Pilot and 3 episodes, lead director and executive producer
Moonage Pictures / Netflix
 

2020 - 2021 THE LAZARUS PROJECT
TV Series, Pilot 3 episodes, lead director and executive producer
Urban Myth Films /SKY / HBO
 

2019 Soulmates
TV Series, 2 episodes, director
Fearless Minds / AMC / Prime

2016 - 2018 Beat
TV series, 7 episodes, idea and created by, director
Hellinger Doll Filmproduktion / Amazon
 

2018 Der Fall Collini
Feature Film, Director
Constantin Filmproduktion / Constantin Film
 

2015 Polizeiruf 110 - Und vergib uns unsere Schuld
TV Movie, Director
Wiedemann & Berg / ARD
 

2015 Sanft schläft der Tod
TV-Movie, Director
ARD
 

2014 Landliebe
Feature Film, Writer and Director
NFP / Warner Bros.
 

2013 Coming-In
Feature Film, Writer, Director and Exec. Producer
Summerstorm Entertainment / Warner Bros.
 

2006 - 2007 Krabat
Feature Film, Writer and Director
Claussen+Wöbke+Putz / 20th Century Fox
 

2005 Trade - Welcome to America
Feature Film, Director
Centropolis Entertainment / Lionsgate, 20th Century Fox
 

2004 Die Wolke
Feature Film, Writer
Clasart Film / Concorde Film
 

2003 Sommersturm (Summer Storm)
Feature Film, Writer and Director
Claussen+Wöbke+Putz / X Verleih, Warner Bros.
 

2002 Ganz und Gar
Feature Film, Director
Olga Film / Constantin Film AG

​