Jan Tenhaven - Documentary Filmmaker
BERLIN CLEANS! DIRTY TIMES
COLOURFUL GERMANY
SILICON VALLEY REVOLUTION – HOW A FEW NERDS DID CHANGE THE WORLD
BERLIN AND BRANDENBURG FROM ABOVE
PRETTY UGLY
THE CHOCOLATE HUNTER
EGYPT’S SUNKEN CITY – A LEGEND IS REVEALED
IRELAND: THREE SHADES OF GREEN
AUTUMN GOLD
WHY WE BUY
“What kind of films do you make?”
“Actually about everything what fascinates me.”
“So, any focus?”
“No. history, culture, journeys, politics, science. Somehow everything.”
“No focus?”
(Pause) “Actually it’s always about humans.”
“Ah. So, portraits?”
“No, not necessarily. But in the end it’s always about humans, right?”
“And are these reports or documentaries or?”
“Everything. It depends”
“Documentaries?”
“Yeah, as well.”
“I prefer those. Actually we’re only watching Arte and stuff like that at home.”
“Aha.”
“So, what are you doing exactly?”
BERLIN CLEANS! DIRTY TIMES
29th January 2018 By Jan Tenhaven
They are the silent heroes of the big city and without them Berlin would suffocate in trash; the workers who clean our city toilets, streets, chimneys and sewers. The new rbb-documentary series BERLIN CLEANS! DIRTY TIMES (5x 45 minutes) is an homage to the many people in these jobs, who normally work in silence or at night in order to keep the city clean.
Journalist Award for SILICON VALLEY REVOLUTION
12th January 2018 By Jan Tenhaven
Very proud to announce that my documentary SILICON VALLEY REVOLUTION has won the Journalist Award Computer Science 2017 (Saarbrucken, Germany) in the Television category.
COLORFUL GERMANY now online
29th May 2017 By Jan Tenhaven
After the great preview of COLORFUL GERMANY (DIESES BUNTE DEUTSCHLAND) at the Babylon Cinema in Berlin, the TV broadcast is now also being shown online by ARD-Media. The German Press Agency claims, “A movie that takes its time which is how it should be. Since it’s about questions that cannot easily be answered like, the fate of the refugees in Germany which include so many facets that a short oversight would not suffice.”
