Biography
A graduate of Hamburg's University of Fine Arts, Uli Aselmann had been working as a producer of feature films, series, TV movies and commercials at Munich's neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft (ndF) since 1992 when he decided to establish his own production company, die film gmbh, in 1997. Andreas Ch. Tönnessen became a co-shareholder of die film gmbh in July 2009.
Aselmann is also the managing shareholder and producer of the subsidiaries a.pictures film & tv. production.gmbh in Hamburg and cut.it film- und postproduktions gmbh in Stuttgart. In 2010, his company became a major shareholder of TANGRAM International GmbH which specializes in documentaries. Since its founding, die film gmbh has been responsible for more than 100 productions which have been nominated for numerous national and international prizes and have received awards in various categories. The honors have included the VGF Award Newcomer Producer Prize for "Vaya Con Dios" in 2001, a Best Actor Lola for Josef Bierbichler for his performance in Hans Steinbichler's "Winter Journey" ("Winterreise") which also received a FIPRESCI Prize at the Haifa International Film Festival and the Jury Award at the Brooklyn International Film Festival. Marcus H. Rosenmüller's "Little White Lies" ("Die Perlmutterfarbe") picked up the Best Film award at the BUSTER – Copenhagen International Film Festival and the Castello d'oro at the Castellinaria Film Festival in Bellinzona in 2009. This year, die film gmbh's third collaboration with Hans Steinbichler, "Promising The Moon" ("Das Blaue vom Himmel"), earned producer Aselmann the Bavarian Film Award's € 200,000 Producer Prize.
Uli Aselmann serves as the section head for cinema and deputy board chairman at the German Producers Alliance and has been a member of the presidium for the German Federal Film Board since February 2009. die film gmbh's other films include: "Cologne's Finest 3" ("Die Musterknaben 3", dir: Ralf Huettner, 2003), "A Pass From The Back" ("Aus der Tiefe des Raumes", dir: Gil Mehmert, 2004), "Fast Lane" ("Grenzverkehr", dir: Stefan Betz, 2005), "My Mother, My Brother And Me" ("Meine Mutter, mein Bruder und ich!"!, dir: Nuran David Calis, 2008), "Autistic Disco" (dir: Hans Steinbichler, 2008), "Three Quarter Moon" ("Dreiviertelmond", dir: Christian Zübert, 2011), and "3 Stunden" (dir: Boris Kunz, 2012, in post-production).
Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH