Jan Philipp Weyl(I)
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Jan wrote, directed, and produced his debut-feature RUNNING AGAINST THE WIND (2019), Ethiopia's official Oscar entry in the category "Best International Feature," and he received the prestigious Bernhard Wicki German Film Award for Peace. RUNNING AGAINST THE WIND is distributed worldwide, with by Samuel Goldwyn in the U.S. and Canada, and Netflix Africa.
Jan founded R&B RÄUBER & BANDITEN FILM UG after graduating in 2006, of which he is still today the owner and managing director. He is also the managing director of AC INDEPENDENT UG & Co. KG, which financed the feature film RUNNING AGAINST THE WIND and produced it in cooperation with R&B FILM.
In 2016, he was a student at Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School. Herzog has been Jan's mentor ever since. As a participant of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's masterclass in Cuba, Jan shot the feature film "Buena Vista Chico" (2016). The film is still unreleased after the sudden death of Abbas Kiarostami.
He studied Film Production and Media Business at University of Television and Film (HFF) Munich, and Anthropology & Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, and has worked as an assistant director and unit manager on more than forty films, television shows, and commercials.
Jan was born 1987 in Krefeld, Germany, as the eldest of three children. He works in Los Angeles where he currently resides to work on his slate of feature film projects. He is authorized to work in the United States as Producer, Director, and Writer.
HUMANISTIC ACTIVITIES Karlheinz Böhm personally invited Jan to Ethiopia to see the development projects of his foundation Menschen für Menschen after he raised 23.500 Euros donations as an 8th grade student. While still at school, Jan founded a fundraising association that has collected over 120.000 Euros to date for the funding of two schools in Ethiopia since 2008.
Jan founded R&B RÄUBER & BANDITEN FILM UG after graduating in 2006, of which he is still today the owner and managing director. He is also the managing director of AC INDEPENDENT UG & Co. KG, which financed the feature film RUNNING AGAINST THE WIND and produced it in cooperation with R&B FILM.
In 2016, he was a student at Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School. Herzog has been Jan's mentor ever since. As a participant of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's masterclass in Cuba, Jan shot the feature film "Buena Vista Chico" (2016). The film is still unreleased after the sudden death of Abbas Kiarostami.
He studied Film Production and Media Business at University of Television and Film (HFF) Munich, and Anthropology & Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, and has worked as an assistant director and unit manager on more than forty films, television shows, and commercials.
Jan was born 1987 in Krefeld, Germany, as the eldest of three children. He works in Los Angeles where he currently resides to work on his slate of feature film projects. He is authorized to work in the United States as Producer, Director, and Writer.
HUMANISTIC ACTIVITIES Karlheinz Böhm personally invited Jan to Ethiopia to see the development projects of his foundation Menschen für Menschen after he raised 23.500 Euros donations as an 8th grade student. While still at school, Jan founded a fundraising association that has collected over 120.000 Euros to date for the funding of two schools in Ethiopia since 2008.