Border Patrol

Director: Peter Baumann
Inia, Germany | German
2013 | 14min 43sec | Colour Subtitles: English

What do you do with a body in the woods, and only minutes before the big game? Carl and Franz are all ready to get off work and go and watch the big match against Austria when they make an unwelcome discovery. So, deal with it, or make it someone else’s problem? Written and directed by German director Peter Baumann, BORDER PATROL is a succinct dark comedy with a sharp dose of horror for good measure. Set in the beautiful alpine woodland of Bavaria, it’s a paean to all that’s banal about that unique rustic world, and a satisfying comedy of power politics between its two protagonists.

Peter Baumann

Born in Munich in 1978. After graduating from high school, Peter went to work as a production assistant for Tandem Communication (“The Pillars of the Earth”) where he got in touch with the reality of filmmaking. He moved to Edinburgh 2001 for the “Photography, Film and Imaging” course where he made his first 3 short films as writer/director. Upon graduating with a BA (Hons) in2005, Peter moved to Berlin, where he worked as freelance assistant director on several Film, TV and advertising productions, wrote and directed several short films and also studied as a director at Germany’s first self organized film school “Filmarche”. In 2010 Peter was accepted as a director in the MA Filmmakers program at the Northern Filmschool and will graduate in 2013.

Credits

Director: Peter Bauman
Producer: Nishad Chaughule and Simon Bolton-Gabrielsen
Screenwriter: Peter Baumann
Cinematographer: Justin Litton
Editor: James Gover
Music: Andreas Martin Wimmer

Festival Appearances & Awards

Student Academy Awards 2014 – Winner, Bronze Medal (Foreign Film Category)
The Royal Television Society 2014 – Winner, Sudent Awards 2014 (Postgraduate Fiction Category)
Beijing Academy Int’l Sudent Film Awards 2013 – Winner, Outstanding International Film
Cambridge Watersprite Int’l Student Film Festival 2014 – Winner, Best Original Screenplay
Festival Int’le Du Court-Métrage Étudiants de Cérgy-Pontoise 2014 – Winner, Prix Coup de Coeur