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1990 - 91 Vancouver Film School, British Columbia, Canada. 1989 - 90 University of Music and Applied Arts, Dept. Film & TV 1989 Austrian Filmmuseum, Library 1988 - 90 Vienna Art School, Course in Photography 1979 - 82 Apprentice for the profession travel agent. 1970 - 79 Primary and Secondary school. WORK EXPERIENCE ABROAD
Paul Rosdy worked first in the tourism industry. In the 1980s and traveled the world for American Express, including the Soviet Union, China, and the USA. In 1990 he moved to Vancouver (Canada), where he completed a film curriculum. His first film You Don’t Look for Street Signs When You’re in a Jungle (1991), followed by Release Day (1992) – both films dealt with life in prison. A leading figure at the time in prisoners’ rights was activist, Claire Culhane, who inspired Rosdy to explore life behind bars. Then he moved to New York and founded Pinball Films with Joan Grossman in 1993. Together they produced films for the educational market for clients such as Union Settlement. In 1998, after four years of work, they released The Port of Last Resort about the 20,000 Jewish refugees who escaped the Nazis for Shanghai. The project was inspired by the memoirs of Ernest G. Heppner, a friend of the Grossman family, and screened in more than 20 countries including the world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. Then Rosdy turned to Central Europe to film New World (2005) a poetic travelogue, from the old world to the new. The world premiere was at the film festival in Karlovy Vary. In 2009, Rosdy wrote and directed Cernobílá Barevná (Black/White Color), a short film about the change in time and space in the northern bohemian brown coal fields. 2010 Rosdy met Alfred Schreyer. This encounter resulted in The Last Jew from Drohobych (2011), the portrait of a man, whose incredible life story spans all the upheavals of the 20th century. The world premiere was at the Viennale in Vienna. Next Rosdy took on his hometown. Kino Wien Film – Vienna’s Cinema (2018),a journey through the cinema landscape and history of Vienna, from 1896 until today. The world premiere was also at the Viennale in Vienna. Shortly before Christmas 2021, Rosdy learned that the legendary EMI Austria Music Store in downtown Vienna would close forever. This motivated him to do the short The Last Day (2022). The film was screened as a supporting film in three Viennese cinemas. 2024 Rosdy released his second film about the WWII Jewish exile to Shanghai, but this time from a Chinese perspective – Visit from China. The world premiere was at the Shanghai International Film Festival in June 19 and 21. Currently Paul Rosdy works on two film projects, a documentary and a fiction film. LANGUAGE SKILLS
German, English, French ACTIVITIES
Other publications by Paul Rosdy are a music CD – VARIOUS ARTISTS Neue Welt – Ein Reisefilm von Paul Rosdy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), 2005, and two book publications as editor: Gelbe Post by Adolf Josef Storfer (1999) and The Murder of a Town Named Stanislau by Elisabeth Freundlich, in German and Ukrainian (2016). AWARDS
The Port of Last Resort - Zuflucht in Shanghai Bester Dokumentarfilm / Best Documentary Centaur Prize – Message to Man Film Festival, St Petersburg Russia, 1999 Best Documentary: Cinemanila Film Festival, Philippines, Juli 1999 Best Film: Framing the Other Documentary Film Fest, New York, 1999 DOWNLOADS
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