Constantin Weber

Blacksphere
Director and Screenwriter

Regenstauf, Germany

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February 2021

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About Constantin

During my school days, I fell in love with film and did what everyone does: shoot some crap with buddies and pretend it’s a short film. Even though I knew I wanted to write scripts and direct films, I didn't know how to break into this business. So I enrolled in Classical Archeology and Philosophy. As you might guess, I dropped out immediately. I was just two weeks in when I noticed how many books on film there were in the library. I spent the rest of the term at a desk and got my first internship as a production assistant.

Sadly, it was also the year when a family member I was very close to got terminally ill. Wracked by depression, I didn’t know what to do or what path to take. I only knew that I didn’t want to lose the place I called home - the only thing I had left. I was afraid to move, take risks, and engage in new relationships.

So I stayed home and enrolled in Sociology (I believe it was Spielberg saying in some interview: As a filmmaker, you need to study Sociology or Psychology). However, I would escape working as a production assistant so as not to lose touch with the industry.

A brief note: Like everyone back in the day, I played in a band during that time. But as it is with 99% of all the bands: One day after our producer met with a label and they wanted to put us on tour, the bassist and the drummer quit... Thumbs up, guys. (However, the part of me that didn't want to leave was happy about it.)

Anyway, screenwriting. I was scared to take a job in another city, so I took the first job I could get: editor-in-chief of a print magazine. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Well, the bosses believed I had training in print - which was probably a misunderstanding. I had worked at TV stations but never in print. Anyway, it didn’t matter because after one month in I had figured out how things worked and from then on: yawning boredom. I can’t handle going to the same office every day and doing the same kind of work. On the last day of my first month, I was already looking for a new job.

In the end, I was lucky to get a part-time job at the university that allows me to balance all my interests: Sound recording, filming, cinematography, editing. Plus, I have the spare time to write the scripts and direct the shorts I love.

Because of my background, lifestyle and personality, I prefer exploring themes of family, identity and loss in fantastic comedy.

PS: If you need someone to fix your refrigerator or replace a light switch. Get in contact. Somewhere along the way, I spent three years working for an electrician helping out on construction sites to pay for my university studies.

Quotes on NIMMERLAND:
Jury comment Beeston Film Festival: "On one level, this film excels as a grimly convincing and chilling dramatisation of sexual and emotional abuse. But what makes this film more singularly impressive is the way in which events are perceived from a child's confused perspective, including the use of 'play and imagination' both as a narrative device, but also as a way of exploring how children try to make sense of traumatic experiences. It's brilliantly directed and filmed and the acting of Christina Hans as the child is astonishingly good: such a nuanced, fully inhabited performance and I think worthy of an acting nomination."

Quote me on:
* "My first drafts are never brilliant."
* "I don't write perfect scripts in 30 days (from idea to final draft) like some YouTubers want to make you believe. I've tried, and I suck at it."
* "I love being rewritten."

Unique traits: *Certified Mental Coach *Actor's Director *Owner of Recording Studio *Musician

Gender:
Male

Height:
5' 9"

Weight:
163

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Short

Hair color:
Blonde

Eyes:
Blue

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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Mr Talent (Feature) Budget: $1M - $5M | Fantasy ⋄ Comedy MR. TALENT is the story of a gay, badly aged one-hit wonder, now a celebrity judge, who suffers a fatal heart attack on camera and whose soul bonds to a young singer, a streetwise Romanian single mom. Soon they discover none of this was a coincidence, as supernatural forces are at their heels for the betrayal he committed against his family to rise to the top and for her, as she's damaging the relationship to her child the same way. On the run, they must set things right in time or will be dragged to hell.
The Masterplan (30 Minute TV) Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy A teenage Romanian girl whose parents have relocated the whole extended family to the UK sets out to realise her dream to become the most famous foreign actress on British television.
G.O.A.T. (Feature) Budget: $100K - $1M | Fantasy ⋄ Comedy When the jobless 35-year-old football coach of a youth team and the 19-year-old wunderkind signed to a million-dollar contract swap bodies, both must not only adapt to each other's lives but also work together to save one of England's most traditional clubs from relegation.
Year of the Golden Rainbow (Feature) Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy When a seventy-year-old awakens from a lifelong coma, he discovers that his high school nemesis stole his billion-dollar idea. He gathers what's left of his childhood friends and sets out to take back the life he never had.
Treasure of the Mystic Sea (Feature) Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy On Christmas morning, 30 years after they last met, each of a small group of childhood friends receives a part of an ancient map that sets out a treasure hunt they didn't finish back in the day.
The 12th Name (Feature) Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Fantasy After catching a serial child killer, a young FBI agent quits her job and moves her family to the countryside. But she quickly realizes that space, time and even death can't stop this killer - and one child is still on his list.
Mathilda - Bread Ahead (Feature) Budget: $1M - $5M | Fantasy ⋄ Comedy Mathilda, award-winning baker of Britain’s best loaf, finds herself living her life backwards, fulfilling the prophecy of her New Year’s Eve's tarot card reading after burning both: the cards and her estranged husband's bakery.
Huber Breaker (Feature) Budget: $1M - $5M | Fantasy ⋄ Drama When a young Vietnam veteran, mentally trapped in the mind of his childhood self, returns to a small coal town, two boys decide to do everything they can to save him. But soon, the souls of those left behind on the battlefield are no longer satisfied to feast on the war hero's spirit alone.
The Art of Dying (Feature) Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy An unusual relationship forms when a suicidal screenwriter is hired by a terminally ill stranger to rewrite the book of his life story before he passes away.
The Revengers (Web Series) Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy After losing their jobs and becoming stay-at-home dads, four neighbors start a secret business to sustain their families and "do good" for the community: On behalf of their customers, they take revenge - from day-to-day anger to "special requests".

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Credits

Nimmerland (2021)
Film (short) by Constantin Weber (Drama) Writer, Director Beaten, humiliated, prostituted. When Ella gets help from a therapist, she is only strong enough for one last escape - Peter, Wendy and the Pirates. Ella has to revive them to find the key to her hidden soul.
Titus & Mirabella (2020)
Film (short) by Melania Crisan (Comedy) Script Consultant A romantic comedy about the first date between two people who have never had a relationship before but who desperately want one. A movie about fear and love.
Waldsterben (2018)
Short by Blacksphere (Drama and Thriller) Writer, Producer During a hiking trip, two childhood friends find the dead body of a girl. Heading back to the car, they run into human traffickers and the other girls they are smuggling.
Vatertag (Father's Day) (2018)
Film (short) by Korbinian Altenbuchner Co-Writer You should think carefully about the day you introduce your new girlfriend to her father.
Die Saat (The Seed) (2018)
Film (short) by Korbinian Altenbuchner Script Consultant A woman is willing to do whatever it takes to get her ex-husband back, even if it's taking his new wife's life.
Forever (2017)
Film (short) by Melania Crisan Executive Producer What would you do if you were confronted with an untreatable diagnosis?
Laute Schatten (The Sound of Shadows) (2010)
Film by Björn Smolka Production Assistant
Wenn Sonnenblumen weinen (When Sunflowers Weep) (2009)
Film (short) by Constantin Weber Writer, Director, Producer
Police Call 110: The World's a Quiet Place (2008)
Film by Alain Gsponer Production Assistant Commissioner Tauber promises the desperate Maren Harms to find her family's murderer quickly, but there are many suspects.
Ekkelins Knecht
Film by Reinhard Kungel Production Assistant Winter AD 1373 in southern Germany. The day-taller Konrad lost his parents and gets into the service of the knight Ekkelin Gayling. In the coming feuds and robberies, he has to realize that his ideas of chivalry don't exist any longer. Konrad and his master lose everything in their struggle for life. When Ekkelin is finally betrayed and executed, Konrad searches for revenge for his master.

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Awards

Official Selection (New York Script Awards) - Mr Talent
(2022)
Top10-Finalist (Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition) - Mr Talent
(2022)
Honorable Mention (Prague International Indie Film Festival) - Nimmerland
(2022)
Semi-Finalist (Eurasia Fest) - Nimmerland
(2022)
Top40 (The UK Film Festival Script Competitions) - Mr Talent
(2022)
Hot100 List (Capital Fund Screenplay Competition) - Mr Talent
(2022)
Best First-Time Screenwriter (Cannes Film Awards) - Mr Talent
(2022)
Finalist (Page Turner Awards) - Mr Talent
(2022)
Second Rounder (Screencraft Film Fund) - Mr Talent
(2022)
Second Round (ISA Fast Track Fellowship) - Mr Talent
(2022)
Honorable Mention Top 18% (The Finish Line Script Competition) - Mr Talent
(2022)
Best Drama / Short Film (OTB International Film Awards) - Nimmerland
(2021)
Best Film (All Genres/ Micro, Short or Feature) (OTB International Film Awards) - Nimmerland
(2021)
Best Debut Performance (OTB International Film Awards) - Nimmerland
(2021)
Best Short Film (Anatolia International Film Festival) - Nimmerland
(2021)
Best Short Film (Eastern European International Movie Awards) - Nimmerland
(2021)
Best Child Actor (Eastern European International Movie Awards) - Nimmerland
(2021)
Honorable Mention (Mannheim Arts and Film Festival) - Nimmerland
(2021)
Official Selection (Chicago Script Awards) - Mr Talent
(2021)
Quarter-Finalist (Stafford Film Festival) - Mr Talent
(2021)
Best Short (Selb Film Festival) - Waldsterben
(2018)

Education

Bavaria Film - Screenwriting Workshops (Character-Design; Worldbuilding)
(2018-2019)
University of Regensburg
(2004-2009)
Corey Mandell - Screenwriting Workshops
(2020)